Following up on a report in JURIST's Paper Chase earlier today, Saddam Hussein will likely face charges of premeditated murder, torture and forced expulsion and disappearances for his alleged role in a 1982 massacre of Shiites when his trial begins next week, a court official said Thursday. Hussein was charged in July in connection with [...]

Chaplains in the US Air Force will no longer subscribe to a code of ethics that endorses the evangelizing of service members not affiliated with any religion, Air Force officials have announced. The move comes in the wake of a lawsuit filed by a Jewish graduate of the US Air Force Academy (USAFA) who claims [...]

A federal judge has ruled that State Street Bank and Trust Company will not be held responsible for major losses in a United Airlines (UAL) employee stock-ownership plan. Over 70,000 United employees and retirees filed a class action lawsuit in 2003 alleging that the trustee bank held on to UAL stock for too long, watching [...]

Lawyers for Platon Lebedev, business partner of jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky , said Thursday that they have asked the Russian General Prosecutor's Office for information on the whereabouts of their client and have also requested to see him. A spokesman for the prosecutor's office previously said that Khodorkovsky and Lebedev would face new [...]

Serbian authorities issued a new arrest warrant for the wife of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic Thursday. Mirjana Markovic , who fled Russia in 2003 in the face of an international warrant, failed to appear before a Belgrade court for alleged corruption charges. The international warrant was revoked in June when her lawyers promised she [...]

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for judges to require cash-only bonds pending trial. In a 4-3 ruling Wednesday, the court said that a 1993 decision that said that Ohio defendants can meet bond requirements by cash deposit, pledges of property or securities, or by bail bond was not changed by [...]

The UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has said that it will allow former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj to participate in politics during his provisional release pending his war crimes trial. The tribunal eased the conditions of Haradinaj's release , giving the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) the ability to allow [...]

A spokesman for the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) said Thursday that the trial of Saddam Hussein is still set to begin on October 19, despite concerns that the trial may be postponed. Investigatory judge and IST spokesman Raad Jouhi also said Thursday that Hussein and seven others will appear in court next week to face [...]

New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Australia's proposed anti-terror legislation Thursday as a violation of international law and called the proposal "a shocking departure from Australia's proud tradition of protecting individuals from an overly powerful state". Last month, Australian Prime Minister John Howard won unanimous support for the legislation which allows detention without charge, [...]

The Swedish government plans to introduce a new law that would require anyone held on reasonable suspicion of a crime to provide a DNA sample to be kept in a national registry. Swedish Justice Minister Thomas Bodstrom presented the proposal to the Social Democrats parliamentary group earlier this week, saying the recommended law would "strengthen [...]