Israel was sharply criticized by Swiss diplomats Monday for allegedly violating international humanitarian law in its latest actions against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as tensions between Israel and Palestinian authorities continue to mount over the seizure of an Israeli soldier by militants. Switzerland, the original host state for the Geneva Conventions which retains the [...]
Antitrust regulators from EU member states voted unanimously Monday to approve in principle new fines against Microsoft for not following a 2004 European Union antitrust ruling . In December 2005 the European Commission warned the software giant that it may face fines of up to $2.5 million (2 million euros) per day for not giving [...]
Former UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke took senior British judges to task over terrorism in an editorial published Monday in London's Evening Standard newspaper, saying that they had repeatedly refused to meet with him to discuss the interpretation of human rights law in light of security needs, and that their disengagement had to change as [...]
Eleven African jurists were sworn-in Monday as the first members of Africa's first continent-wide human rights court, the African Court on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) , sponsored by the African Union . The swearing-in took place at the end of a two-day AU summit in Banjul, Gambia. The legal experts vowed to "preserve, protect [...]
Lawyers for Guantanamo prisoners seeking to challenge their detentions in the US federal courts argued Monday before the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals that no further filings in their cases were necessary and that enough documentation had been provided for the appeals court to decide whether the challenges could be made. Following the US [...]
Review of Department of Defense Detention Operations and Detainee Interrogation Techniques, VADM A.T. Church III, USN, March 7, 2005; released by the ACLU pursuant to a FOIA action, July 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Federation of Arab Journalists (FAJ) on Monday issued a statement declaring its opposition to a draft publications law in Egypt , which the group said politicians could use to stifle journalists with the threat of jail. The FAJ asserted that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak promised two years ago to repeal laws that could result [...]
British Home Secretary John Reid asked the Court of Appeal on Monday to overturn a ruling that terrorism suspects cannot be detained without charge under so-called control orders , arguing that a judgment last week by a High Court judge contained "misunderstandings and errors." Mr. Justice Sullivan ruled that the orders authorizing the electronic monitoring [...]
Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute is set for Wednesday's start of the official legal count of ballots cast in Sunday's disputed presidential election after preliminary results led to the two main candidates each declaring themselves the winner. Conservative candidate Felipe Calderon , of the National Action Party (PAN) said Monday that his 370,000-vote lead is insurmountable [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday stayed a lower court's order that a 29-foot cross honoring Korean War veterans be removed from city-owned property in San Diego. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy , who oversees appeals from the Ninth Circuit, granted without comment the temporary delay requested by the San Diegans for the Mt. Soledad National [...]