The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugolavia (ICTY) on Wednesday indefinitely suspended the trial of Volislav Seselj over fears that witnesses were being intimidated. Seselj, leader of the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS) , is charged with three counts of crimes against humanity and six counts of war crimes, and is accused of establishing [...]

Derek Humphry : "The controversy over the right to die of Eluana Englaro is really a battle over religious beliefs and secondarily about the law of Italy. The law is being used as a political football in a struggle for moral power by the Vatican over the rules of life and death. All over the [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied Tuesday a petition by two Guantanamo Bay detainees to stop the force-feeding imposed on them during their hunger strike, ruling that the court lacks jurisdiction over the matter. The petitioners, Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bawazir and Omar Khamis Bin Hamdoon, further alleged that [...]

Officials from the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Thursday that the ICC has not issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir , refuting Wednesday reports that the warrant had been issued. The Wednesday reports, allegedly based on statements by an anonymous UN diplomat, said that the ICC had reached a decision on the [...]

Information redacted from a British High Court decision released last week has been withheld from US President Barack Obama and may hold key information about British involvement in the alleged torture of Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed , according to a letter sent by Mohamed's lawyer to Obama. The letter, sent Monday by Reprieve director [...]

JURIST Staffer Eric Linge, Pitt Law '10, interned in Addis Ababa last summer… Will membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) help Ethiopia's agricultural sector? Indeed, would the agricultural sector of any least-developed country (LDC) be helped by membership? Not surprisingly, these were the first questions posed after distinguished world trade scholar Dr. Melaku Geboye [...]

Ken Connor : "Eluana Englaro's tragic death by starvation and dehydration is yet another example of how the West is embracing a utilitarian view of life that is undermining human dignity. The standard of human worth is now "quality of life" rather than human equality. Those with diminished physical or mental abilities are seen as [...]

An Egyptian military court on Wednesday sentenced an Islamist opposition leader to two years in prison for illegally entering Gaza. Magdy Ahmed Hussein, leader of the Labor Party , was arrested last month on suspicion of crossing into the territory via an illegal tunnel. Hussein was also fined 5,000 Egyptian pounds, or about USD $900. [...]

Tibetan courts have convicted 76 people involved in the March 2008 Lhasa riots , according to official remarks on Tuesday by vice-president of the Tibet regional People's Congress Nyima Cering. The high ranking Tibetan official did not discuss sentence terms at the press conference, part of a state sponsored tour of the region for foreign [...]

Lawyers for Omar Khadr presented a plan Wednesday to return the Guantanamo Bay detainee to Canadian society. The outline, laid out at a news conference in Toronto, calls for assessments of the 22-year-old's health and education, and proposes he be housed in a foster home. Dennis Edney, one of Khadr's lawyers, called on Canadian Prime [...]