The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday that the Special Court for Sierra Leone has asked the country to host the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor in The Hague. A spokesman from the Dutch Foreign Ministry said that the request was based on concerns that keeping Taylor's trial in Sierra [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), now at Northwestern University School of Law, says that the government's attempt to charge Salim Ahmed Hamdan with conspiracy to commit war crimes – a crime that does not exist under US or international law – falls short of a [...]

The jury in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial will resume deliberations Thursday to decide whether the al Qaeda conspirator should receive the death penalty for his role in the Sept. 11 attacks . The case went to the jury late Wednesday afternoon and the jury must now decide whether Moussaoui was responsible for any deaths [...]

Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2006, S. 2349, United States Senate, passed March 29, 2006 . Read the full text of the bill as placed on the Senate calendar. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Presidential statement S/PRST/2006/15 on non-proliferation and Iran, UN Security Council, March 29, 2006 . Read the full text of the statement. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld oral arguments transcript, Supreme Court of the United States, March 28, 2006 . Read the full text of the transcript . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The US Senate voted 90-8 late Wednesday to approve a lobbying reform bill pushed through in the wake of a corruption scandal centering on former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff , who was sentenced to a prison term Wednesday in an unrelated Florida fraud case. Under the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2006 , lawmakers [...]

The UN Security Council Wednesday agreed on a statement demanding that Iran immediately suspend its nuclear enrichment program. The statement, which is not legally binding, seeks a report on the extent of Iran's compliance from the International Atomic Energy Agency within 30 days. Watch recorded video of the reading of the statement by the current [...]

AP is reporting that Ahmed Omar Abu Ali has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for joining al Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President Bush . Abu Ali faced a possible life sentence following his conviction last November. Abu Ali's sentencing had been delayed to give lawyers in the case time to investigate whether [...]

The UN Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to allow UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to open formal negotiations on the establishment of a tribunal to try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri . The UK- and US-sponsored Resolution 1664 calls on Annan to negotiate an agreement with the Lebanese [...]