A telephone caller threatened the life of the Serbian prosecutor responsible for the arrest and extradition of war crimes suspect Stojan Zupljanin to the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , the Serbian Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday. The death threat, which was traced to the Netherlands, warned Vladimir Vukcevic that he would be killed [...]
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The UK House of Lords Wednesday passed a bill to ratify the EU reform treaty , formally known as the Treaty of Lisbon , rejecting an amendment pushed by Conservative peers to postpone the upper chamber vote until October 20. The House of Commons approved the pact in March. Royal assent is expected Thursday, making [...]
The Norwegian parliament approved a law Tuesday allowing same-sex marriage in the country. The new law replaces 1993 legislation that granted same-sex couples the right to enter into civil partnerships. The bill was proposed in the Norwegian parliament, the Storting , by the Standing Committee on Family and Cultural Affairs , and passed by the [...]
Physicians For Human Rights Wednesday released a report saying that abuse and torture claims made by former detainees held by the US in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq are supported by medical examinations performed by the group. The exams showed that their subjects currently experience numbness and weakness consistent with extended placement in "stress positions" [...]
A panel of judges in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Tuesday reversed the conviction of former White House official David Safavian because of previous judicial error and the use of incorrect legal standards at the trial court level. A federal jury convicted Safavian in 2006 on three counts of concealing [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday denounced a recent Burundi Constitutional Court decision to dismiss 22 former members of the ruling party from the National Assembly, the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (NCDD-FDD) . The Constitutional Court ruled that the 22 former NCDD-FDD members should be expelled from the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech, Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, says that Ireland's recent "No" vote in its referendum on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty means that Ireland could find itself marginalised, although certainly still an EU member, if the other EU's 26 other Member [...]
Bryan McCann : "When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Baze v. Rees case that Kentucky's lethal injection protocol did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment, death penalty opponents everywhere braced for the resumption of state-sanctioned killing. Those of us who organize against the death penalty in Texas were particularly expecting our state government [...]
US immigration prosecutions continued to increase in March 2008, jumping nearly 50 percent from the previous month and nearly 75 percent from the previous year, according to a report released by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University. Federal immigration prosecutions have risen since February , when such prosecutions hit a record high. [...]
A military judge Tuesday dropped charges against a US Marine charged in connection with the November 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha . Battalion commander Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani had faced court-martial for dereliction of duty and violation of a lawful order based on allegations that he failed to properly investigate the Haditha [...]
