Provisional draft report on UN Security Council and European Union blacklists, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), November 12, 2007 . Read the full text of the report. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, International Criminal Court, November 9, 2007 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Citizen for Responsibility and Ethnics in Washington v. Executive Office of the President, et al., The National Security Archive v. Executive Office of the President, at al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, November 12, 2007 . Read the full text of the order . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Iran temporarily suspended the sentence of women's rights activist Delaram Ali Monday for two weeks while officials decide whether to review her case. Despite leniency pleas from seven leading human rights organizations , Ali was set to begin a sentence of 34 months in prison and 10 lashes Saturday. Ali was sentenced for her part [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Paulo Sergio Pinheiro began his investigation Monday into the Myanmar military government's crackdown on protesters by visiting Rangoon's Insein prison and a Buddhist monastery earlier raided by troops. Pinheiro arrived in Myanmar on Sunday after the junta agreed to allow the UN rights expert into the country. He had [...]

Former Cambodian Foreign Minister Ieng Sary and his wife Ieng Thirith were arrested Monday and brought before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) . Ieng Sary and his wife, who served as Minister for Social Affairs, have been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Khmer Rouge regime. [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has transferred former Bosnian Croat soldier Miroslav Bralo to Sweden to serve the remainder of his 20-year prison sentence, DPA reported Monday. Christer Isaksson, head of security for the Swedish Prison and Probation Service , told DPA that Bralo had been transferred to Sweden several days [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Byron L. Warnken of the University of Baltimore School of Law says that the US State Department's reported grant of "immunity" to Blackwater security guards making sworn statements concerning the killings of 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in September means much less than many might suppose… Are Blackwater personnel receiving immunity for [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Shubhankar Dam of the Singapore Management University School of Law says that in pressing Pakistan's Supreme Court in the direction of greater activism, Pakistan's lawyers embraced a problematic strategy that unintentionally helped to provoke General Pervez Musharraf's recent declaration of emergency rule with all its dire consequences… "I was too cowardly," Phillip [...]

The government of Sudan Sunday announced it had laid criminal charges against 25 opposition politicians. The announcement came one month after the country's Court of Appeal rejected a request for the release of the members of the opposition Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the Umma Party for Reform and Renewal. The charges include illegal possession [...]