Attorneys for former US Army researcher Dr. Steven Hatfill have filed a motion seeking to dismiss an appeal by former USA Today reporter Toni Locy challenging her contempt order for refusing to disclose sources for articles about the 2001 anthrax attacks . The motion, filed Thursday in the US Court of Appeals for the DC [...]

Senegalese publisher El Malick Seck is appealing a court ruling which sentenced him to three years in prison and closed his newspaper for three months as punishment for printing an article accusing Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and his son of money laundering, according to a defense lawyer. Seck, publisher of 24 Hours Chrono, was convicted [...]

Officials from the monitoring committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) released a draft resolution Monday praising Serbia for the reforms it has made since joining the Council of Europe (COE) in 2003 but stressing that the country still has work to do. The committee particularly praised the Serbian government's continued efforts towards [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Moeen Cheema, professor of Law & Policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan, says that in the wake of the election of Pakistan People's Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari as the President of Pakistan, the country's vaunted lawyer's movement may be dying a slow death without realizing its [...]

Andrea Kaminski : "In suing the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB), Attorney General Van Hollen is seeking to overturn a recent GAB decision and change election procedures – just before a presidential election. He wishes to impose an emergency rule dealing with matching the statewide voter registration list with the Department of Transportation database. The [...]

Zimabwean president Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday signed a power-sharing agreement between their African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) parties. Under the agreement, Mugabe would remain president, Tsvangirai would become prime minister and each would have two deputies. During the signing ceremony for the agreement Mugabe said [...]

The US has denied a Pakistani delegation's request to meet with Pakistani detainees held at the US military detention center at Guantanamo Bay , according to a Daily Times report published Sunday. According to the report, the US said that it does not permit delegations to meet with specific detainees held at the center, but [...]

An Australian jury on Monday convicted radical cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika and five other Muslims in that country's highest-profile terrorism trial to date. Benbrika, also known as Abu Bakr, was found guilty in the Supreme Court of Victoria on charges of directing the activities of a terrorist organization, belonging to a terrorist organization and possessing [...]

A US soldier and an Iraqi translator for the US military testified against Staff Sgt. Hal M. Warner as an Article 32 preliminary hearing concluded Sunday in Iraq . Military prosecutors are seeking to court-martial Warner, of the Army's 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry , in connection with the murder of an Iraqi detainee earlier this [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday convicted former Bosnian army commander Rasim Delic of cruel treatment and sentenced him to three years in prison. With one judge dissenting, a trial chamber found Delic responsible for actions of the El Mujahedin Detachment (EMD), which subjected 12 members of the Bosnian Serb [...]