Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , Mexico's leftist presidential candidate challenging the results of the disputed July 2nd presidential election , has told supporters that he plans to organize a constitutional convention to draft a new constitution. Lopez Obrador said Sunday that the country was in need of "radical transformation" and that he would call an [...]

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has warned senior government and military officials that inflammatory statements some made about the recent conflict with Lebanon, such as advocating the bombing of villages that housed Hezbollah rebels, could lead to war crimes prosecutions abroad, the Israeli Army Radio reported Monday. Several Israeli Defense Forces generals have recently [...]

Eight men allegedly involved in a plot to blow up US-bound planes leaving a London airport will probably not go to trial until 2008, prosecutor Colin Gibbs told the Central Criminal Court during a brief hearing in London Monday. It is unclear why they will not be brought to trial sooner. All eight defendants are [...]

US military officials in Iraq said Monday that, despite press reports to the contrary, three soldiers killed earlier this summer near Mahmudiya were not involved in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl and the murder of her family in that area. The military has charged five US soldiers from the 502nd Infantry Regiment [...]

The number of terrorism-related prosecutions has sharply declined in the years following the Sept. 11 attacks and less than half of those convicted on terror charges received prison sentences, according to a study released Sunday by Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse . The study, based on US Justice Department data, found that only 14 [...]

Secrecy Report Card 2006: Indicators of Secrecy in the Federal Government, OpenTheGovernment.org, September 2, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma is set to appear in court again Tuesday, where he faces corruption charges stemming from an arms-procurement scandal. Zuma was fired as South Africa's deputy president in June 2005 after a close business associate was convicted of fraud and corruption . Zuma's corruption trial was postponed for the [...]

A former Bosnian Serb police chief convicted of war crimes in 2001 was found dead in his home in Bosnia Friday with a gunshot to his head and a pistol in his hand. An autopsy has not yet been completed, though it appears the 49-year-old committed suicide. Stevan Todorovic was released from prison last year [...]

A US district judge in Tucson Friday dismissed a controversial case against two humanitarians arrested in July 2005 for aiding illegal immigrants they found in need of emergency medical attention in the Arizona desert. At the time of their arrests, Shanti Sellz and Daniel Strauss were volunteering for No More Deaths , a group that [...]

Egyptian-mediated negotiations to free an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian Hamas militants are ongoing, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told a Cairo newspaper Saturday. The capture of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit by Hamas in Gaza in June prompted Israel to detain about 30 Palestinian lawmakers in retaliation, including nearly a third of the Hamas-led Palestinian cabinet. [...]