Arafat Rahman, the son of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia , was arrested Monday on corruption allegations, according to local media. Zia's elder son Tarique Rahman was also arrested on arrested corruption charges last month in Dhaka. Tarique, a senior member in the Bangladesh Nationalist Party , was widely expected to succeed his mother, [...]

A Croatian county court in Osijek issued indictments Monday for seven persons, including a former parliamentarian, on charges of war crimes committed against Serbs, including abduction, torture and murder, during Croatia's war of independence from the former Yugoslavia. Prosecutors charged opposition lawmaker and former member of the ruling party Branimir Glavas with ordering the killing [...]

The United States currently holds some 18,000 detainees in two US-run Iraqi detention facilities, Camp Bucca and Camp Cropper , the Washington Post reported Sunday, citing US military sources. In the past month, the US has increased security in Baghdad, leading to an additional 1,000 arrests. The detainees are considered "enemy combatants", similar to the [...]

Writing Sunday in a Washington Post op-ed , US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales denied any impropriety on his part in the firings of eight US Attorneys . Two days before his scheduled Congressional testimony on the firings, Gonzales said he had "nothing to hide": I know that I did not — and would not — [...]

Elections of governors and state officials in Nigeria Saturday were marred by violence and accusations of fraud in what has been called an "experiment" as the nation prepares for next week's presidential election . Newspapers reported as many as 52 casualties in election-related violence, with the official count at 21 deaths and 218 arrests. Saturday's [...]

A overwhelming majority of referendum voters in Ecuador Sunday appear to have approved the convening of a constitutional assembly to rewrite that nation's constitution , according to a Cedatos-Gallup exit poll. A plan initiated by President Rafael Correa to limit the power of an allegedly corrupt Congress is estimated to have passed with 78.1% of [...]

Russian police arrested dozens of protesters Sunday before and during a rally in St. Petersburg opposing the policies of Russian president Vladimir Putin for a second straight day. The arrests followed the detention of some 200 anti-Putin protesters – including liberal United Civil Front leader and former chess champion Garry Kasparov – at a similar [...]

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Friday banned the Social Democratic Party of Russia for failure to follow regulations. The Court upheld a judgment in favor of the Russian Registration Service , which had sued the party for failure to establish 500-member local offices in at least 45 Russian regions and for failure to [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law, recently returned from his native Pakistan, shares the story of his personal involvement in some of the circumstances leading up to the March 9 suspension of Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry… On March 9, 2007, I was visiting with a Pakistan Supreme Court Justice [...]

Alan Gura : "Fear and disinformation have long been the hallmarks of the movement to end private gun ownership. Not surprisingly, the D.C. Circuit's decision in Parker v. District of Columbia, confirming that people have an individual right to keep and bear arms, has elicited outrageous predictions of doom from gun prohibitionists. The Violence Policy [...]