Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday reiterated calls for the UN to establish an international tribunal to investigate and try suspects accused in the August 19 bombing of the foreign and finance ministries that left close to 100 dead. Meeting with the US envoy in Iraq, al-Maliki also described the worsening situation between Iraq [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that outside observers purporting to assess adherence to the "rule of law" in Iraq should pay less attention to compliance or non-compliance with formally enacted codes, and more to social practice… There is a conventional wisdom concerning law and social [...]

A UK jury found three men guilty of conspiracy to murder after plotting to blow up transatlantic flights using liquid explosives . The three men, Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar, and Tanvid Hussain, were part of a larger plot allegedly organized by British national Rashid Rauf, arrested in Pakistan. Four other suspects were not convicted [...]

Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Monday that while he hoped no further potential war criminals would be tried in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia , he would continue to support the court financially should international backers drop out. Sen, who has led the country for the past twenty years, said he [...]

The UK Home Office has released a top terrorism suspect from a control order subjecting him to virtual house arrest because it did not want to reveal secret evidence, according to media reports Monday. Home Secretary Alan Johnson sent a letter to the man of Libyan and British nationality, know only as AF, at the [...]

Joshua Katz : "The Libertarian Party of Connecticut joined with the state's Green Party to file a lawsuit in federal court challenging the state's Citizens' Election Program. We maintained that this program was unconstitutional in that it imposed asymmetrical burdens on minor parties vis-a-vis the Republican and Democratic parties in elections within the state. While [...]

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia and her son, Tarique Rahman , will face court proceedings on corruption charges starting in October, officials from the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court said Monday. Zia, the head of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party , her son, and four others are accused of embezzling over 21 million taka [...]

Members of the Niger opposition party said Saturday that police had detained 30 former opposition lawmakers, allegedly at the behest of Niger President Mamadou Tandja . The 30 former member of parliament were arrested on charges of embezzlement , but are likely being targeted for their opposition to Tandja's dissolution of parliament and new constitution [...]

Pakistan's rule of law is stymied by long traditions of lawlessness and dictatorship, says the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute in a new report . The report, published Thursday, stems from observations and more than 100 interviews conducted with all Pakistani individuals who have some stake in the court system there, from judges to [...]

Awzar Thi : "A court in Thailand inched closer to its counterparts in neighboring Burma last week when it sentenced an anti-coup protestor to 18 years in prison. The Bangkok criminal court convicted Daranee Chanchoengsilapakul on three counts of lese majesty arising from statements she made in a rally to support the ousted prime minister, [...]