Mehmet Tohti : "Kory Teneycke, spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, told the Associated Free Press that "Canada is not looking to take any detainees from Guantánamo…In the case of the Uighurs and other Guantanamo Bay detainees Canada has no interest", in response to the Obama Administration's request of settling some of the Uyghur detainees [...]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called on the government of Sri Lanka to conduct a "proper investigation" of any "credible allegations of violations of humanitarian law" arising from the recent conflict between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) that ended last month with the military collapse of the Tigers and [...]

US journalists Laura Ling and Seung-eun Lee were sentenced on Monday in North Korea's Pyongyang Central Court to 12 years in labor camps . The journalists were arrested in March for allegedly crossing into North Korea while reporting on North Korean defectors for Current TV and were subsequently charged with unspecified "hostile acts." The trial, [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Zeray Yihdego of Oxford Brookes University School of Social Sciences and Law says that the UN and the world's powers must act to help stabilize Somalia, too long plagued by clan infighting, lawlessness, regional conflict involving Ethiopia and Eritrea, and now maritime piracy… The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) claimed victory [...]

Two groups of petitioners filed an emergency request with the US Supreme Court Saturday to stop the sale of Chrysler Group assets to Italian automaker Fiat . The first group, consisting of three Indiana state pension and construction funds – the Indiana State Police Pension Fund, the Indiana Teacher's Retirement Fund and the state's Major [...]

Several senior officials working in the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Bush administration sought to limit uses of so-called enhanced interrogation tactics but broadly agreed on the legality of the tactics, according to internal DOJ emails made public by the New York Times on Saturday. The memos were written by the then-Deputy Attorney [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Friday approved the sale of most of the assets of Chrysler Group to Italian automaker Fiat , but said the deal could not be completed until June 8 or until the Supreme Court declines to hear an appeal. The ruling upheld Monday's decision by the US [...]

Internal e-mails, US Department of Justice, made public June 6, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Internal DOJ e-mails

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld on Friday the 2007 conviction of former Ku Klux Klan member James Ford Seale for the kidnapping and deaths of two African American 19-year-olds in 1964. The 18 judges of the court were asked to determine en banc whether an amended statute of limitations barred [...]

Ana Nikodijevic, visiting scholar from the School of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, comments on the ongoing development of human rights law in Serbia… Although the ethnic conflicts of the 1990s are a distant memory for much of the world, they had massive consequences for Serbia. After a decade of Milosevic's unscrupulous regime and ideology, [...]