Serbia's chief prosecutor Slobodan Radovanovic said Saturday that Serbia is actively searching for the rioters that set fire to the US Embassy in Belgrade last week over US support of independence for Kosovo . Serbian police said they have already arrested over 200 rioters and are in the process of collecting evidence and filing charges. [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Victor Hansen of New England School of Law says that new legislation increasing the required rank of Judge Advocates General in the US military to three-star general or admiral will help assure the independence of the legal advice provided by uniformed JAG lawyers and put a more effective check on the executive's [...]

Bosnian Serb lawmakers have backed a resolution calling Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia illegal and threatening to call a referendum on their own possible separation from the amalgamated state of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH). The resolution, passed late Thursday by the People's Assembly of Republika Srpska , cautioned that recognition of Kosovo would set an international [...]

British troops may have tortured and executed up to 20 Iraqi civilians after a 2004 clash between insurgents and a British convoy in Majar al Kabir , according to evidence released Friday by the lawyers of five Iraqi men detained after the battle. The evidence includes testimony from several witnesses, death certificates, and video footage [...]

An Iranian official with the country's Supreme National Security Council said Saturday that a potential UN Security Council resolution imposing new sanctions on Iran in connection with its nuclear activities would be "legally and technically baseless," according to the Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA). On Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported that while [...]

US Attorney General Michael Mukasey and US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said Friday that some telecommunications companies are circumventing wiretapping orders after the temporary Protect America Act expired last week without an agreement in Congress on replacement legislation, causing intelligence agencies to lose vital information. In a letter to the House Intelligence Committee, [...]

Japanese Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba urged the US Friday to adopt preventive measures to stop further crimes by American troops in Japan. The warning comes after a US Marine was arrested last week for allegedly raping a 14 year-old girl on Okinawa, an incident that sparked outrage among the public and Japanese media. At a [...]

United States v James Tobin, US District Court for the District of New Hampshire, February 21, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Supreme Court of Belarus Friday ordered a former newspaper editor who had been had been sentenced to three years in prison for reprinting cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad to be released, his lawyer said. Alexander Sdvizhkov, former deputy editor of Belarus newspaper Zhoda, had been convicted of inciting religious hatred, but was released Friday [...]

US Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) has been indicted on charges that include extortion, money laundering, and wire fraud in connection with a complex land scheme, according to an indictment released Friday at a Phoenix press conference . If convicted, Renzi could face thousands in fines and prison time. Prosecutors allege Renzi used his position on [...]