Nepal's High Level Probe Commission submitted its final report Monday to the Nepalese government, concluding that King Gyanendra and some 200 members of his administration were responsible for the violent response to the democracy protests last April that left 22 dead and more than 5,000 wounded. The commission, formed by the interim government in Nepal [...]
China's deputy chief prosecutor has said that almost every wrongful conviction in the country in recent years has been the result of torture and intensive interrogation techniques. The government has discovered at least 30 people who were wrongfully convicted using confessions extracted by torture, and even estimates the number could be higher. Wang Zhenchuan said [...]
Campaign for Fiscal Equity v. State of New York, New York State Court of Appeals, November 20, 2006 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
US District Judge Paul L. Friedman Monday rejected a Guantanamo Bay detainee's petition to have his heart operation transferred to a civilian facility. Saifullah Paracha , a multimillionaire businessman and television producer from Pakistan, petitioned the US District Court for District of Columbia on November 15 to enjoin the US military from performing a cardiac [...]
Judging Dujail: The First Trial before the Iraqi Tribunal, Human Rights Watch, November 19, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The New York State Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the state must spend about $2 billion more per year to provide children in the New York City public school system with "a sound basic education" guaranteed by the state constitution . In a 4-2 decision , the state's highest court embraced as "reasonable" the [...]
UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith spoke out Monday against a proposal by Prime Minister Tony Blair to extend the 28-day limit on police detentions of terrorism suspects who have not been charged. Goldsmith, the government's chief legal adviser, said during a media briefing that he had not seen evidence to justify increasing the limit to [...]
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Dan Halutz Monday expressed disappointment about Israel's use of cluster bombs during the recent Middle East conflict and ordered an investigation into how the order to use the munitions was given. Major General Gershon Hacohen will lead the inquiry into whether Halutz's instructions on the authorization of [...]
Thai human rights groups have demanded that former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra face charges for crimes against humanity relating to his rough anti-drug campaign. The Lawyers Council of Thailand and the National Human Rights Commission allege that more than 2,500 people died as a result of Thaksin's crackdown on drug dealers. The groups have [...]
The governors of six of Bolivia's nine states vowed over the weekend to break off relations with President Evo Morales following a move to give Morales' leftist party more power to rewrite the country's constitution. The six governors, who all belong to opposition parties but represent 80 percent of Bolivia's population, pledged not to participate [...]