The United States will not help Germany investigate the alleged abduction of Khaled el-Masri , a Lebanese born German citizen who claims that the US Central Intelligence Agency seized him in Macedonia in 2003 in an instance of extraordinary rendition , the German Justice Ministry said Sunday. El-Masri has sued the CIA in the United [...]
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Israel is using "internationally prohibited weapons against civilians" in Lebanon as the country faces "real annihilation," according to a statement from Lebanon Information Minister Ghazi Aridi Sunday after an emergency cabinet meeting. Lebanese media reports state that Israel used phosphorus incendiary bombs and vacuum bombs that suck up air and facilitate building collapses. The use [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists Amy Ross of the University of Georgia Department of Geography and Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), say that as the Ugandan government starts peace talks with the notorious Lord's Resistance Army and holds out a promise of amnesty for leader [...]
Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , who lost the July 2 presidential election by 0.6 percent of the vote to conservative Felipe Calderon , asked supporters Sunday to begin a campaign of "peaceful civil resistance" to bring about a manual recount of the election. Without specifying what supporters should do to facilitate [...]
Ek Choeun, also known as Ta Mok has slipped into a coma in a Phnom Penh hospital. His lawyer has told reporters he could die this week and is unlikely to survive until the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal begins holding trials next year. The one-legged Ta Mok, formerly a zone secretary and central committee member [...]
NAACP leaders say that at least 1,000 members attending the organization's annual convention now underway in Washington, DC will go to Capital Hill this Wednesday to urge the Senate to renew portions of the Voting Rights Act that are soon to expire. NAACP President Bruce Gordon stated that "the NAACP is paying close attention" to [...]
L.K. Advani , leader of India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) , said in a speech Sunday in Bhopal that the July 11 Mumbai train bombings were "a fallout of repealing" the country's Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) , set aside by the now-ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) when it came to power in 2004. [...]
The British Home Office is considering enacting rules that would dismiss company directors and seize assets of firms caught employing illegal immigrants, the Sunday Times has reported. Under the new rules, employers could even be punished if contractors or sub-contractors were employing illegal immigrants. A proposal by Home Secretary John Reid is said to include [...]
North Korea (DPRK) Sunday condemned a UN Security Council resolution passed unanimously Saturday imposing sanctions on the country and demanding that it stop controversial missile tests . The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported an unnamed DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying that North Korea "vehemently denounces and roundly refutes the UN 'resolution.'" The unidentified [...]
Resolution 1695 (2006), UN Security Council, July 15, 2006 . Read the full text of the resolution. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
