The Trial Chamber of International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday denied a motion filed by former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic requesting appellate review of the court's decision to assign standby counsel . Karadzic's motion argued that the court did not give appointed counsel enough time to prepare a defense and [...]

A US military court at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait convicted Sergeant Jarret Taylor of abusing fellow troops and making a false official statement on Friday. Taylor's rank was reduced to private, he was sentenced to six months in jail, and was fined nearly $6,000. The behavior was discovered during the investigation of Private Keiffer Wilhelm's [...]

Reported hate crimes in the US increased by approximately two percent in 2008, the greatest reported increase since 2001, according to the 2008 Hate Crime Statistics released by the FBI on Monday. The FBI reported 7,780 single-bias hate crime incidents in 2008, up from the 7,621 reported in 2007 . The FBI noted that the [...]

Prosecutor v. Karadzic, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, November 23, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on Radovan Karadzic.

UK government reports leaked on Sunday revealed many shortcomings in the country's involvement in the Iraq War, some possibly rising to the level of illegality. The documents show that the UK's plans for invasion of Iraq began secretly in February 2002 , while former Prime Minister Tony Blair misled the public by saying there was [...]

Legal Aid Services of Oregon, et al. v. Oregon Law Center, et al., Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, November 23, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here.

The Kenyan Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review unveiled the initial Harmonized Draft Constitution last week. The changes are intended to reduce the widespread injustice throughout the country, and specifically address issues that led to the violence following the 2007 presidential elections . Following the issuance of the draft, the Kenyan public has one month [...]

An Algerian criminal court acquitted former Guantanamo Bay detainees Abdulli Feghoul and Terari Mohamed on Sunday, according to the Algerie Presse Service (APS) . Feghoul and Mohamed were repatriated to Algeria in August 2008 after being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility for seven years. The Algerian state prosecutor had sought a 20-year sentence [...]

A lawyer who represented London-based hedge fund Hermitage Capital in a suit against Kremlin officials alleging theft and fraud died in Matrosskaya Tishina Detention Center in Moscow last week. Hermitage CEO William Browder had hired Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky to represent him from abroad after Browder was declared a national security threat and denied a [...]

A Chinese court sentenced human rights activist Huang Qi to three years in prison Monday on the charge of illegally holding state secrets. Huang was a critic of the Chinese government's handling of the 2008 earthquake in the Sichuan Province that killed about 90,000 people. After the quake, he posted articles online criticizing the government's [...]