A court in Croatia has ordered state officials to arrest parliamentarian Branimir Glavas on suspicion of war crimes commited against Serbs, including abduction, torture and murder in the eastern city of Osijek in 1991-92 during Croatia's war of independence from the former Yugoslavia. Glavas, responsible at the time for the city's defense, is the highest [...]

The interim Thailand government installed following a military coup in September indicated Monday that it will not lift martial law until supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra reduce their efforts to destabilize the political structure. Defense Minister Gen. Boonrawd Somtat said that the government would not lift martial law until "there are no political [...]

The federal bench trial of a lawsuit challenging the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (COPA) began Monday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania . The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) brought the suit on behalf of internet websites such as Salon.com and Nerve.com, arguing that the severe punishments outlined in [...]

A US citizen with a Canadian wife and family who was convicted of third-degree sexual abuse began serving a plea deal Monday where he must avoid the US except to meet with his parole officer. Teacher Malcolm Watson's effective exile to Canada, where he already resides, has drawn attention from immigration lawyers who question whether [...]

A lawyer for one of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants in the so-called Anfal trial said Monday that he will boycott the trial when it resumes on October 30 because some 1,000 pages of his documents were stolen from the lawyer's lounge in the Iraq Supreme Court building. Badia Arif Izzat, defense lawyer for former Iraqi intelligence [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist and former Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor Henry King, Jr., now at Case Western Law School, and JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone now at Syracuse University College of Law, says that the passage of the Military Commissions Act has ironically obscured the landmark [...]

Jonathan Hafetz : "On October 19, 2006, the district court (Lamberth, J.) dismissed the habeas petition of Mohammed Munaf, the American citizen detained in Iraq by the United States and sentenced to death by an Iraqi criminal court on October 12, 2006. The district court ruled in Mohammed v. Harvey that it lacked jurisdiction because [...]

Trevor Phillips , chairman of the UK Commission for Racial Equality , warned Sunday that if communication about social differences does not improve in Britain, riots could erupt there in the wake of a religious dress debate prompted by comments from House of Commons leader Jack Straw and the suspension of a Muslim UK teacher [...]

UN Legal Counsel Nicolas Michel has submitted a final draft to the Lebanese government and the UN Security Council of a plans to establish an international tribunal to investigate the death of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , according to an unnamed source, who noted that the Security Council could approve the draft by [...]

Conservative radio commentator Armstrong Williams has agreed to pay the US Department of Education $34,000 after a year-long investigation of the commentator's agreement to endorse President Bush's education policies, a Department spokesperson confirmed Sunday. Williams has admitted no wrongdoing, but the Justice Department determined that Williams was overpaid for his contracted work. In 2003, the [...]