US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday announced the launch of the Initiative for Safer Communities, responding to growing concern about the increase of violent crime in American cities. In the first increase since 2001, violent crime rose 2.2 percent in 2005 , according to the FBI's 2005 Uniform Crime Program , and under Gonzales' [...]
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The brother of a prosecutor assigned to the second Saddam Hussein trial was assassinated Monday morning in front of his house in West Baghdad. Imad al-Faroon was pronounced dead immediately after the shooting, which his wife witnessed. His brother, Muqith al-Faroon, is a chief prosecutor in the genocide case against Hussein, where he is alleged [...]
The family of a Brazilian man who was shot and killed by London police filed an appeal Monday with the UK High Court challenging a July decision by prosecutors not to bring individual charges against the police officers involved in the shooting. Lawyers for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes said the decision by [...]
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told the press on Sunday that he intends to urge Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring justice to those who killed independent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya on October 7 in her apartment building. Barroso implied that it would reflect poorly on Russia's international reputation if Politkovskaya's killers are not [...]
Israeli police have recommended that the Israeli attorney general indict President Moshe Katsav on charges of rape, sexual harassment, indecent acts using force, and indecent acts without consent following their three-month investigation of at least 10 complaints against Katsav brought by former employees. A police source told the press Sunday that at least four or [...]
The Iraqi High Tribunal convened briefly Monday and announced that the next hearing on the crimes against humanity charges brought against Saddam Hussein will be on November 5, though the court refused to say whether a verdict will be handed down during the hearing. Jaafar al-Mussawi, chief prosecutor in Hussein's Dujail trial , expressed optimism [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Paul Halliday of the University of Virginia Department of History says that before signing the Military Commissions Act suspending the writ of habeas corpus for alien "enemy combatants," President Bush should reflect on the English experience with suspending and then reviving the writ in the midst of fear and political crisis [...]
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia engaged in a rare televised debate Sunday with ACLU President Nadine Strossen . The two clashed on issues of constitutional interpretation and fundamental rights, with Scalia defending his "textualist" approach to constitutional interpretation, which asks what constitutional language meant at the time it was adopted. In the past Scalia [...]
Lawyers have filed an emergency motion in federal court to prevent the US military from surrendering translator and accused kidnapper Mohammad Munaf, a US citizen, to Iraqi officials to face the death penalty. Munaf was convicted and sentenced to death by an Iraqi judge after being arrested in Romania on kidnapping charges for allegedly kidnapping [...]
Resolution 1718, United Nations Security Council, October 14, 2006 . Read the full text of the resolution. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
