The credibility of the Khmer Rouge trials in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) are at risk from political corruption and interference, according to a report by the Open Society Justice Initiative released Thursday, just days ahead of the high-profile trial of Khmer Rouge leader Kaing Guek Eav, better known as "Duch," [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Afsheen John Radsan, former CIA assistant general counsel now at William Mitchell College of Law, says that instead of categorically rejecting rendition as a US strategy, new CIA chief Leon Panetta and President Obama will likely conclude on due consideration that it is one of those tactics, somewhere in the gray between [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied Thursday a petition for an en banc rehearing by convicted former Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling . Skilling's petition followed a ruling last month by a three-judge panel from the Fifth Circuit that upheld his previous convictions and ordered him to be resentenced due [...]

Russian human rights group the SOVA Center announced Thursday that the number of Russian hate crimes rose slightly in 2008 over 2007 levels, with 97 people killed and 525 wounded. According to the deputy head of SOVA Galina Kozhevnikova higher conviction rates for hate crimes prevented the numbers of hate crimes from rising any higher. [...]

The November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks were partially planned in Pakistan, according to statements made Thursday at a news conference by A. Rehman Malik , the Advisor on Interior Affairs for the Pakistan Ministry of the Interior . According to Malik, the perpetrators traveled by ship from southern Pakistan to Mumbai, where they launched the [...]

The US Court of Federal Claims on Thursday rejected arguments made in three test cases against the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by families alleging that their children's autism was caused by a combination of common childhood vaccines. Due to the case volume and complexity of the so-called Omnibus Autism Proceeding , [...]

Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Vygaudas Usackas said Wednesday that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will begin talks with the US about the possibility of accepting prisoners from Guantanamo Bay . Lithuanian Defense Minister Rasa Jukneviciene expects to discuss the matter with US Defense Secretary Robert Gates during her first diplomatic visit to the US since [...]

A report issued Wednesday by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) commended China's developmental progress, while urging the nation to share best practices in poverty reduction and to improve the national standard of living. The report follows China's evaluation under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process adopted by the UN in 2006, which aims to [...]

The Intermediate People's Court of Shijiazhuang on Thursday declared bankrupt Sanlu Group , the Chinese dairy company at the center of the contaminated milk scandal that killed six and sickened 300,000. As a result of a court order to compensate families whose children were sickened by the tainted milk, the company borrowed money, causing its [...]

FBI Deputy Director John Pistole said Wednesday the FBI is looking at shifting a number of agents from national security and counterterrorism activities to investigations involving financial fraud, during a hearing before the US Senate Judiciary Committee . Pistole said there are currently more than 1600 ongoing mortgage fraud investigations, along with more than 530 [...]