The government of Fiji is seeking foreign judges to replace judicial officers whose appointments were revoked after an April suspension of the country's constitution, according to a Sunday report from Sri Lanka's Sunday Times. Fijian Chief Justice Anthony Gates interviewed candidates in Colombo, Sri Lanka, last week and met with the Sri Lankan Chief Justice [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) must indict and try senior Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) officers suspected of war crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged in a letter released Monday. HRW had previously written to Chief Prosecutor Hassan Jallow to urge him to prosecute RPF officers suspected of killing between 25,000 and 45,000 civilians [...]

UK human rights group Reprieve announced Monday that it is initiating legal action against the British government over the rendition of two terrorism suspects to Afghanistan. The two men were arrested by British troops in Iraq in 2004 and sent to the US detention facility at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Reprieve claims that the [...]

Iraqi Shiite militia are systematically torturing and killing gay men without government repercussions, according to report released Monday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . According to the report, violence against men perceived as gay or too "feminine" has recently been on the rise, with death tolls possibly in the hundreds. Although consensual homosexual conduct is [...]

Iranian officials on Sunday began the trial of at least 25 people detained during protests following the recent contested presidential election . The defendants are accused of a range of crimes including participating in illegal demonstrations and vandalizing public property. More than 100 protesters were put on trial earlier this month, bringing the total number [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, FL (formerly at Ann Arbor, MI) examines the relevance of the four Geneva Conventions signed in August 1949, 60 years ago this month, in the context of untraditional conflicts that he describes as being "between war and peace"… The nature and proliferation [...]

Mike Dubrasich : "On August 5th the San Francisco based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals set aside the State Petitions Rule and reinstated the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, more commonly known as the "Clinton/Dombeck Roadless Rule." The Ninth Circuit Court, the most overturned court in the United States, has once again overstepped its authority, written [...]

Canadian Bar Association (CBA) President Guy Joubert Saturday urged the Canadian government to seek the repatriation of Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr rather than appeal Friday's Federal Court of Appeal's decision directing repatriation efforts. Joubert said the CBA was "very pleased" with the court ruling, in keeping with the CBA's past appeals to Canadian officials [...]

The Honduran Office of the Prosecutor of Common Crimes indicted 24 supporters of ousted president Manuel Zelaya on charges of sedition and damages Friday. All 24 were accused of robbery, sedition, damages to private property, and illegal demonstrations stemming from protests on Wednesday. Eleven of the protestors are still detained at the National Penitentiary and [...]

American citizen John Yettaw, sentenced for swimming to and staying in the home of Myanmar opposition pro-democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi , is expected to be released on Sunday, according to an announcement on Saturday following a closed meeting between US Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) and Myanmar's Senior General Than Shwe on Saturday. Webb, [...]