Some 270 illegal immigrants arrested during a US immigration sting at an Agriprocessors Inc. meatpacking plant in Iowa, were each sentenced to five months in prison and 27 more received probation after pleading guilty to the use of false immigration documents, the New York Times reported Saturday. In what federal officials called the largest operation [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the proposed 18th Amendment to Pakistan's constitution limiting presidential power and punishing judges who might support military coups and constitutional subversions may offer some short-term benefit, but it will not solve Pakistan's constitutional woes…. The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) will soon propose [...]

A Marine Corps General Friday declined to press charges against two US Marines involved in a March 2007 incident in which 30 US Marines opened fire on civilians alongside a road in Nangahar province, Afghanistan, after a suicide bomber drove a vehicle carrying explosives into their convoy. Lt. Gen. Samuel Helland made the decision after [...]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Friday ruled that a small uninhabited island on which Singapore operates a light beacon does in fact belong to the country, ending a 38-year long dispute between it and neighboring Malaysia . The court held that the strategically important island had originally belonged to Malaysia, but because Singapore had [...]

Case Concerning Soverignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore), International Court of Justice, May 23, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Minister of Justice v. Omar Khadr, Supreme Court of Canada, May 23, 2008 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled Friday that Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr has a constitutional right to see confidential documents compiled by Canadian officials following interviews with Khadr in prison, but found that the government could withhold some information for national security purposes. Lawyers for Khadr expressed disappointment with the verdict, saying that [...]

Joseph Logan : "In the debate over the Bush administration's push to wrap up a status-of-forces agreement and strategic pact with Iraq, there's a concerned party you aren't hearing about: the more than 20,000 Iraqis in US military detention. The status-of-forces agreement now under negotiation would supersede the current U.N. Security Council resolution which expires [...]

A court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Thurday sentenced three members of the Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) separatist movement to death after finding them guilty of assassination and murder in a mass trial. A defense lawyer said the convictions were politically motivated and vowed to appeal the decision. A researcher for Human Rights [...]

Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman filed a petition Thursday for the arrest of former Argentine President Carlos Menem and five others accused of covering up the possible involvement of businessman Alberto Jacinto Kanoore Edul in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. In 2004, an Argentine judge conducted an investigation into the [...]