A former Bosnian Serb official who testified against against Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic died in prison in Sweden Saturday. Officials with the Swedish Prison and Probation Service told Reuters that 52 year old Miroslav Deronjic , who was sentenced to 10 years in prison after his 2004 conviction on war crimes charges, died of [...]

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in three cases which will be heard next term. In Klein & Co. v. Board of Trade (06-1265) the court will consider whether "futures commission merchants," firms that handle trade on commodities markets, have standing to sue under the private losses section of the Commodity Exchange Act for [...]

Conclusions and Recommendations of the Committee against Torture: Japan, UN Committee against Torture, May 21, 2007 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Monday upheld the life sentence of serial rapist Mikaeli "Mika" Muhimana . Muhimana, formerly a councilor for the western Rwandan province of Kibuyea, was sentenced to life in prison in 2005 after being convicted of committing genocide, rape, and murder of Tutsi victims. The court allowed in part two [...]

Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga , the lower house of the Afghan parliament, removed outspoken parliamentarian Malalai Joya on Monday after she unfavorably compared the parliament to a stable. Joya's remarks, made during a private television interview, held that a stable was better "for there you have a donkey that carries a load and a cow that [...]

Jumah Muhammad al-Dossari , a Bahraini detainee that has been held at Guantanamo Bay without charges since January 2002, threatened in a letter released Sunday by his lawyer that if he had "the opportunity would end life" due to the despair over his open-ended detention and the conditions at the facility. Al-Dossari also alleged that [...]

Harris Chowdhury, political secretary to former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia , was sentenced to three years incarceration on Monday on extortion and bribery charges. Chowdhury is the first senior political official of the former Bangladesh government, which was removed from power during the declaration of a state of emergency in January, to be sentenced [...]

Pan-African Parliament officials said over the weekend that the recently approved investigation into alleged human rights abuses in Zimbabwe would be delayed. Zimbabwe has expressed strong opposition to the PAP initiative and Zimbabwean permanent secretary for Foreign Affairs Ministry Joey Bimha warned that police and government officials will only cooperate with an investigation approved by [...]

The Indonesian attorney general's office announced Monday that it will reopen a corruption probe against Tommy Suharto , son of former President Haji Mohammad Suharto . The announcement, made by Director of Investigations Mohammad Salim on the ninth anniversary of the dictator's 1998 resignation , said that the probe will focus on Tommy Suharto's alleged [...]

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in five argued cases Monday, including Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly , where the Court held that a plaintiff filing an antitrust lawsuit under the Sherman Act must allege specific facts in the complaint showing that defendants participated in a conspiracy. William Twombly filed a class-action lawsuit alleging [...]