Several former detainees held at the US detention facility at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan have alleged abuse while in custody, the BBC reported Wednesday. Interviews conducted over a two-month period with 25 people detained on suspicion of belonging to al Qaeda or the Taliban revealed allegations that prisoners were subjected to physical abuse, death [...]

The War Crimes Council of the Belgrade District Court convicted a Croatian Serb of war crimes Tuesday for his involvement in the death of 200 Croatian POWs in 1991, sentencing him to 20 years in prison. Damir Sireta was originally charged with violating Articles 22 and 144 of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Criminal Code [...]

An Indian court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for 22 Pakistanis suspected of involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks , including a founding member of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) , the Pakistani militant group suspected of carrying out the violence. Special Sessions Court judge M. L. Tahaliyani granted special prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam's request to issue warrants for [...]

Prison rape continues to be a widespread problem in the US, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (NPREC) . Among other suggestions, the report calls for officials to identify those prisoners who are vulnerable and to protect them, to develop reporting and investigatory procedures for sexual abuse that [...]

A Bosnian state court on Tuesday refused to extradite former Croatian parliament deputy Branimir Glavas to Croatia to serve a sentence for war crimes. Glavas, who holds dual Bosnian and Croatian citizenship, fled to Bosnia to avoid serving his sentence for killing Serbs during the Croatian conflict from 1991-1994. Glavas was convicted in May in [...]

Allegations of politically-motivated abuses of the criminal justice system in Council of Europe member states, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, June 23, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on calls for judicial reform in Russia.

Vietnamese pro-democracy lawyer Le Cong Dinh was disbarred Monday from the Ho Chi Minh City Bar following his recent arrest for allegedly conspiring against the government. The Bar's disciplinary council concluded that the prominent lawyer damaged the association's prestige, caused public discontent, and violated ethical requirements for legal practitioners. Dinh was vice president of the [...]

The Italian trial of four Google, Inc. executives was delayed Tuesday until September 29 because of an ill interpreter. The four executives, product marketing manager Arvind Desikan, former CFO George Reyes, chief legal officer David Drummond, and privacy executive Peter Fleischer, face trial on criminal defamation charges arising out of Google Video content depicting a [...]

Chinese lawmakers on Monday reviewed a revised version of a state secrets law which aims to update existing legislation to address Internet leaks of classified data. A draft of the amended Law on Guarding State Secrets was passed by the Chinese State Council in April and is now being considered by the Standing Committee of [...]

A group of five Kenyans involved in the country's Mau Mau uprising during the 1950s sued the British government on Tuesday, alleging that they were abused in British prison camps. The five filed a claim in the High Court in London seeking a public apology and compensation for alleged beatings, sexual abuse, and unlawful detention. [...]