Government prosecutors in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial asked US District Judge Leonie Brinkema late Wednesday to reconsider her Tuesday order prohibiting the government from presenting the aviation portion of its case, including witnesses, testimony, and exhibits. Brinkema barred the evidence after being informed that a government attorney violated the judge's witness sequestration ruling and [...]
Decision on possible criminal proceedings in the case of Jyllands-Posten's article "The Face of Muhammed", Denmark Director of Public Prosecutions, March 15, 2006 . Read the full text of the decision . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Orders Resolving Numerous Broadcast Television Indecency Complaints, US Federal Communications Commission, March 15, 2006. Read the full text of FCC 06-17 on Complaints Regarding Various Television Broadcasts Between February 2, 2002 and March 8, 2005; FCC 06-18 on Complaints Against Various Television Licensees Concerning their December 31, 2004 Broadcast of the Program "Without A Trace"; [...]
Explanation of Vote by Ambassador John R. Bolton, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on the Human Rights Council Draft Resolution, in the General Assembly, March 15, 2006 . Read the full text of the statement. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Documents on FBI monitoring of anti-war activities by the Pittsburgh-based Thomas Merton Center for Peace & Justice, released by the ACLU pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, March 14, 2006. Read the documents as listed on an ACLU press release. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Denmark's Director of Public Prosecutions Henning Fode has decided not to press criminal charges against Jyllands-Posten , the Danish newspaper that first published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad which last month set off worldwide protests amongst Muslims leading to multiple deaths, the burning of Danish embassy buildings, and boycotts of Danish goods. The top prosecutor [...]
Four former senior Kenyan government officials and a top businessman are to be charged with corruption for their roles in a $1 billion scam known as the Goldenberg affair . The graft charges will be the first laid by the administration of President Mwai Kibaki , who was elected to office in 2002 due largely [...]
The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday proposed a record $3.6 million fine against CBS, its stations and affiliates for violating decency standards by airing a graphic sex scene in the program "Without a Trace." The recommendation comes as the FCC resolved over 300,000 complaints about close to 50 television programs on multiple networks aired between [...]
Zimbabwe prosecutors have dropped charges against six men accused of a plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe , according to lawyers involved in the case speaking Wednesday. Media reports originally indicated that eight men had been charged, but police said Wednesday the number was only seven, and that only one, a policeman and former Rhodesian [...]
A panel of judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Wednesday convicted former Bosnian Muslim General Enver Hadzihasanovic and former Brigadier Amir Kubura for their failure to check or punish war atrocities committed against Bosnian Croat and Serb civilians by troops under their command during the Bosnian war from 1992-1995 . [...]