A district court in Indonesia held hearings Monday to consider the second appeal of three men sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings . Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Indonesia ordered the lower district court to assemble a panel of judges to review the merits of the latest [...]

US President George W. Bush Monday reiterated his support for a surveillance bill that grants immunity for telecommunications companies from lawsuits related to their participation in the NSA warrantless surveillance program . During a meeting with the National Governors' Association, Bush urged the House of Representatives to allow the measure to go to the floor [...]

New International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz reiterated in a Sunday interview with Serbian news site B92.net that he will do everything in his power to ensure that fugitive Bosnian Serb leaders Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic are arrested as soon as possible. In January, Brammertz said that finding [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear three cases , including Arizona v. Gant (07-542) where the Court will consider whether "the Fourth Amendment require law enforcement officers to demonstrate a threat to their safety or a need to preserve evidence related to the crime of arrest in order to justify a warrantless [...]

The Afghan journalism student who was sentenced to death in January for distributing papers questioning gender roles under Islamic practice told the Independent on Sunday that he was not afforded a lawyer to represent him during his four-minute closed court trial, and that he was not permitted to speak on his own behalf. Sayad Parwez [...]

Khalid Sekander : "An Afghan university journalism student was recently convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death by an Afghan trial court for expressing the idea that polygamy may be an inappropriate practice under Islam. The sentence is on appeal, and, meanwhile a majority of the members of the upper house of the Afghan parliament [...]

The Cuban National Assembly on Sunday, by a unanimous show of hands, officially voted Raul Castro , 76, to the position of president, and also chose Jose Ramon Machado Ventura , 76, as the first vice president. Ventura is known as a hard-line supporter of former President Fidel Castro, who resigned last Tuesday, and was [...]

Chief Justice Ronald George of the California Supreme Court told the state's Judiciary Council on Friday that the Supreme Court is withdrawing a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at expediting death penalty appeals by allowing the Supreme Court to transfer death penalty appeals to the intermediate appellate courts, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. George had [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Larry Eaker of the American University of Paris says that EU law on the free movement of capital may significantly complicate the efforts of the French government to keep Societe Generale in French hands in the wake of the recent "rogue trader" episode that cost it billions in assets… "Société Générale is [...]

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has ordered the country's 70 Internet service providers to block access to popular video-sharing website YouTube because of "blasphemous content, videos and documents" posted on the site, a government official confirmed Sunday. The order, issued by the director of the PTA on Friday, claimed the ratio of "non-Islamic objectionable video" [...]