The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Thursday on whether unintroduced non-sensitive evidence from the criminal trial of Zacarias Moussaoui should be turned over to families of 9/11 victims as requested by and promised to them for use in a civil negligence lawsuit against the airline industry and other defendants. Department of Justice [...]

Aswat v. United States, UK High Court of Justice, November 30, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Prisoners in 2005, US Department of Justice, November 30, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Federal Election Commission is asking for public approval of new proposed policies , one of which would reduce penalties for politicians and contributors who voluntarily report their own potential violations of campaign finance laws. The draft proposal for sua sponte submissions has two separate recommendations for penalties: The first recommendation is to reduce [...]

Authorities in India have charged 30 people for their connections to the July 11 Mumbai train bombings which left 185 dead and approximately 700 injured. The suspects, mostly Muslims, include 15 Pakistanis and 17 Indians. Only 13 of the suspects, all Indian, were present in court, while the others were charged in absentia. Two of [...]

Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has denied reports that it has shut down operations due to lack of funding , with a spokesperson telling the Voice of America Thursday that a suspension of field research was previously scheduled. Though TRC spokeswoman Juliane Westphal acknowledged that lack of adequate funding is a problem, she said [...]

An appeals chamber at the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia Thursday sentenced a former Bosnian Serb Army general to life imprisonment for leading troops in attacks against civilians during the 1992-1994 siege of Sarajevo . Stanislav Galic was convicted in 2003 on five crimes against humanity and war crimes charges and was sentenced [...]

The UN Human Rights Council agreed Thursday to hold a special session to look into human rights abuses committed in the Darfur region of Sudan. The rights body, established earlier this year to replace the beleaguered Human Rights Commission, has so far focused mostly on the conflict in the Middle East, holding two special sessions [...]

Serb nationalist war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj , who has been on hunger strike for close to three weeks, has forbidden staff of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to force feed him, provide medical treatment or resuscitate him should it become necessary, the tribunal said Thursday. Seselj, who has been refusing [...]

The Entertainment Software Association , the trade group representing video game companies, won two more legal battles this week against laws aimed at restricting the sale of violent games to minors. On Tuesday, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the 2005 ruling that the "Safe Games Illinois Act" was unconstitutional . [...]