Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Thursday scoffed at the warrant for his arrest issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) earlier this week. Speaking to a crowd of thousands in Khartoum, Bashir said the warrant was an effort by Western countries to reassert colonial power over the country, and criticized the ICC for failing to [...]

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Court will seek INTERPOL arrest warrants for more than 100 Israelis on war crimes charges stemming from the conflict in Gaza , prosecutors said Thursday. Iran announced in December that it would establish a court to try Gaza war crimes suspects in absentia. On Monday, a report from Iranian state broadcaster Press [...]

Bill Marler : "China's recently enacted "Food Safety Law" is, at least on paper, a significant leap forward in terms of proactive food safety measures designed to prevent crises before they happen. Provisions contained in the Law, such as creating a system to recall problem products, nationwide standards for allowable additives, and creating a schedule [...]

Afghanistan's human rights progress has been thwarted by armed conflict, censorship, abuse of power, and violence against women, according to a report delivered Thursday to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay . The report says that addressing these problems requires addressing poverty, and that the Afghan [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Connecticut on Thursday reversed a former Navy signalman's conviction for material support of terrorism. Judge Mark Kravitz set aside the conviction of Hassan Abu-Jihaad, finding that the facts of the case did not support the jury's determination that Abu-Jihaad had provided either "physical assets" [...]

A Singaporean member of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist group admitted his role in plotting the foiled 2001 attack of an Indonesian airport, while testifying at the trial of two Indonesian terrorist suspects in the South Jakarta District Court Thursday. Mohammad Hassan bin Saynudin said that in 2001, he and other JI operatives planned to [...]

Former White House advisor Karl Rove and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers will provide testimony before the US House Judiciary Committee concerning the firing of US Attorneys , allegedly for political reasons, the committee announced Wednesday after reaching an agreement with Bush administration officials. The agreement between the previous administration and chairman of the [...]

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Thursday that UK regulations permitting mandatory retirement policies for workers who reach the age of 65 do not violate an EU anti-discrimination law. The case was originally brought by the group Age Concern England , which argued that the UK regulations violate a European Commission directive that prohibits [...]

The Zimbabwe High Court ruled on Wednesday that the Southern Africa Development Community Tribunal (SADC Tribunal) is not superior to the courts of the individual SADC member countries, in a decision invalidating a SADC Tribunal ruling in favor of white Zimbabwe farmers whose lands were expropriated by a government land reform program. The case was [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Bruce Miller of Western New England College School of Law says that despite the Obama administration's intent to criminally charge Ali Al-Marri in a US court, his challenge to his detention as an "enemy combatant" continues to present a live case which the Supreme Court is obliged to adjudicate… On Friday, February [...]