JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that Pakistan's political parties should boycott the parliamentary elections scheduled for January and support Pakistani lawyers' more fundamental efforts to restore the suspended constitution and reinstate the superior court judges ousted by General Pervez Musharraf under emergency rule… The lawyers’ movement in Pakistan [...]

The government of Sudan is planning a lawsuit against French charity Zoe's Ark for its involvement in last month's attempt to airlift 103 children alleged to be Darfur orphans from neighboring Chad to Europe. Sudanese Interior Minister Zubair Bashir Taha also said Monday that the government will sue a French base in Chad for allegedly [...]

An Iranian court has acquitted Hossein Mousavian, a former key nuclear negotiator, of espionage charges but convicted him of "propagating" against the Islamic government, judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi said Tuesday. Mousavian was arrested in May on suspicions that he passed classified information to the British embassy and other foreigners. While the court suspended Mousavian's [...]

Pakistani Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz apologized Tuesday for demanding that that all of the Supreme Court of Pakistan judges ousted by President Pervez Musharraf when he declared emergency rule in early November vacate their government-provided accommodations by Friday and return to their own homes. Nawaz's apology followed comments from Justice Rana Bhagwandas , who said [...]

Estate of Himoud Saed Abtan et al. v. Blackwater Worldwide, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, November 26, 2007 . Read the full text of the complaint . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Philippines armed forces have followed a "deliberate strategy" of killing left-wing activists, according to a report Monday by UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston . According to the summary of Alston's report: Many in the Government have concluded that numerous civil society organizations are "fronts" for the Communist Party [...]

Senegalese prosecutors will begin an investigation into former Chadian president Hissene Habre within months so that Habre can face trial for alleged torture and mass killings in Senegal in the 1980s, victims' lawyers said Monday. Senegalese officials said earlier this year that Habre's trial would probably not begin for another three years in order to [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg & Associates , 06-856, a case where the Court considered whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) allows an employee to sue for losses incurred when administrators of his retirement plan ignore his instructions on how to invest his retirement money. [...]

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Monday pushed for a life sentence for Father Athanase Seromba , arguing that Seromba's 15 year prison sentence for committing genocide and extermination during the 1994 mass killings of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda was too lenient. Seromba, who was acquitted of lesser charges of complicity [...]

A Russian court ruled against former chess champion and liberal United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov Monday, denying Kasparov's appeal and ordering him to serve a five day jail sentence for organizing an unsanctioned protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin and resisting arrest. Kasparov says he complied with police and maintains that his arrest was [...]