Indonesian Internet providers blocked access Tuesday to file-sharing websites including YouTube, Google Video, and MySpace , one week after a government order sought to prevent the transmission of a controversial anti-Islamic film created by far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders . Indonesia's secular government issued an order to block the websites last Wednesday, citing fears of [...]

Two rights groups have filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Arizona challenging the constitutionality of Arizona's Proposition 100 , which denies bail to illegal immigrants accused of committing serious felonies. In court papers filed Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and the Mexican American Legal Defense and [...]

JURIST was nominated Tuesday for a prestigious Webby Award as the best Law website of 2008. Called the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times and presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences , the "Webbys" are the leading international awards honoring excellence in interactive design, creativity, usability and functionality [...]

A High Court judge in Harare agreed Tuesday to expedite a lawsuit seeking to compel the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission (ZEC) to immediately release the results of the nation's March 29 presidential elections , but continued to refrain from issuing an immediate ruling in the case. On Monday, the High Court ruled it had jurisdiction to [...]

The Switzerland Foreign Ministry has barred former ICTY chief prosecutor and current Swiss ambassador to Argentina Carla Del Ponte from publicly promoting her new book "The Hunt: Me and War Criminals," according to Tuesday reports. The Swiss government has said that statements made in the book that condemn the actions of several politicians of the [...]

Aleksandar Momirov : "In what has been perceived as an astonishing judgment by many, the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) acquitted Ramush Haradinaj and Idriz Balaj of all charges, while finding the third co-accused in the Haradinaj et al. case, Lahi Brahimaj, guilty under two counts of the [...]

The United Nations has a "moral duty to act on the lessons of Rwanda," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday in an address to mark the fourteenth anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Ban said: I am equally determined to work for human rights everywhere – to uphold them, protect them, defend them, ensure [...]

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued five former San Diego city officials in federal court Monday, alleging they committed securities fraud by failing to disclose funding shortfalls in the city's pension and health care plans to potential buyers and sellers of San Diego's municipal bonds. The SEC press release explains the basis for [...]

Zimbabwean police have arrested at least five election officials for allegedly under-counting votes for current Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe during the March 29 presidential election , police officials confirmed Monday. Independent observers say that the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) candidate Morgan Tsvangirai won more votes than Mugabe, but Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Monday reversed and vacated a jury award of $2.5 million in punitive damages awarded to a Mississippi couple who lost their home in Hurricane Katrina and later sued State Farm Insurance for rejecting their homeowner insurance claim. The presiding district judge, US District Judge L. [...]