The sister-in-law of embattled former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian on Thursday entered a guilty plea at the Taipei District Court on charges of money laundering related to a corruption scandal surrounding the former leader and his associates. Chen Chun-ying admitted she had forged documents and transferred money to bank accounts upon orders from Chen Shui-bian [...]

The US Senate amended the "Buy American" clause of the latest economic stimulus package Wednesday to clarify that the provision will be applied consistent with US obligations under international trade agreements. The revised language was proposed by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) . The Senate also voted 31-65 to reject an amendment proposed by Sen. John [...]

China reiterated its request Thursday that all Chinese Muslims, or Uighurs, held at Guantanamo Bay be returned to China after the prison's closing. Spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry Jiang Yu said that China objects to other countries accepting any one of the 17 detainees and that international law dictates they be sent back. The [...]

UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs David Miliband told members of Parliament Thursday that the US did not threaten to withhold intelligence if a summary of the alleged torture of Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed was made public. Miliband's statement was in response to a judgment issued by the London High Court [...]

The US Court of Military Commission Review (USCMCR) on Wednesday granted a government request for a 120-day continuance on an intermediate appeal in its case against Guantanamo Bay  detainee Mohammed Jawad . The government asked the court to grant the continuance in light of an executive order  by President Barack Obama requiring a review of the military commission system, arguing [...]

US military contractor Don Ayala pleaded guilty Tuesday to voluntary manslaughter for the 2008 shooting of an Afghan detainee. Ayala had been charged with second-degree murder for shooting and killing  detainee Abdul Salam in retaliation for Salam's earlier attack on Ayala's fellow contractor Paula Lloyd . At the time of the incident, Ayala was stationed in Afghanistan as a contractor [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Wes Rist of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that if the African Union is successful in its bid to sway the UN Security Council to delay the ICC case against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, not only will the incipient attempt to use international criminal sanctions as a tool for [...]

The Queen on the Application of Binyam Mohamed v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, UK High Court of Justice, February 4, 2009 . Read the full text of the judgment here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Resolution on the return and resettlement of the Guantanamo detention facility inmates, European Parliament, February 4, 2009, . Read the full text of the resolution . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The London High Court revealed in a judgment issued Wednesday that the US government threatened to reconsider and possibly end its intelligence-sharing operations with the UK if a summary of the alleged torture of Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed was made public by the court. The summary in question consisted of a number of paragraphs [...]