JURIST Guest Columnist Chibli Mallat, visiting professor at Princeton University and a prominent Middle East human rights lawyer who in 2003 turned down an invitation to join the Iraqi Special Tribunal that would judge Saddam Hussein, says that even given the chaos of the Dujail trial it is not too late to save the rule [...]

Statistics indicate that the US Justice Department has declined to prosecute 87 percent of all terrorism case referrals from the FBI in fiscal year 2006, according to new findings released by Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) . The numbers, obtained by TRAC from the Executive Office for US Attorneys , show that while [...]

Iraqi High Tribunal officials said Sunday following the handing down of death sentences to Saddam Hussein and two others in the Dujail crimes against humanity case that they would file complaints against several defense lawyers for alleged misconduct. Chief prosecutor Jaafar Moussawai told a news conference that complaints would be filed against members of the [...]

Subodh Chandra : "The consent order we won Thursday against Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell won back the right to vote for many otherwise eligible Ohioans–including college students, the elderly, and homeless people. Those people were not going to be able to vote because they did not have the forms of identification that the [...]

Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants may not be executed until early 2007 because there is no specific time limit for the appeals process, chief investigative judge Raed Juhi said on Sunday after death sentences were handed down by the Iraqi High Tribunal in the Dujail crimes against humanity case. Under Article 25 of Statute of [...]

The chairman of Britain's Commission for Racial Equality says that he plans to investigate possible racial biases in the nation's crime-fighting DNA database in the wake of reports that according to initial Home Office figures, 77 percent of the UK's black men ages 18 – 34 will be entered into the database by April. Only [...]

Philippines President Gloria Arroyo will move forward with plans for constitutional change despite last month's ruling by the nation's Supreme Court that her planned referendum on modifying the country's charter to abolish the upper house of Congress cannot proceed, according to presidential press secretary Ignacio Bunye. In a column to be published Monday, Bunye confirms [...]

News of the guilty verdict and death sentence handed down for Saddam Hussein Sunday has elicited mixed reactions in Iraq and abroad. About 1000 protestors marched in Saddam's home town of Tikrit, and gunmen clashed with police in parts of Baghdad. In the Shiite-dominated south, however, Iraqis celebrated by coming out on the streets, firing [...]

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Sunday with representatives of nearly a dozen non-governmental organizations to discuss possible reforms to the controversial Article 301 of Turkey's penal code, which criminalizes the denigration of Turkishness, the Republic, and the foundation and institutions of the Turkish State. Members of organizations including the Turkish Union of Chambers [...]

Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian delivered a nationally-televised address Sunday denying allegations that he and first lady Wu Shu-chen have been embezzling money from state funds and pledging to resign if his wife is found guilty on embezzlement, forgery, and perjury charges laid against her Friday. The address was Chen's first public response to the embezzlement [...]