The prosecution in the Saddam Hussein trial presented closing arguments Monday, calling for the death penalty for Hussein, his half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court Awad Hamed al-Bander, and former senior regime member Taha Yassin Ramadan. Chief Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman , who abruptly ended witness testimony for the defense last week [...]

US District Judge Sim Lake has delayed the sentencing of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling until October 23. Lake agreed on Friday to a motion filed by the defense team to delay the sentencing, which was originally scheduled for September 11. Lake is still considering a motion made by Skilling's lawyers to [...]

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Hafetz, Associate Counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, says that the recent suicides of three prisoners at Guantanamo Bay graphically represent and reinforce America's loss of moral legitimacy in its so-called "war on terror" … The only surprise about the three recent [...]

The father of Salah al-Aslami, a Yemeni national who committed suicide with two Saudi Arabian detainees at Guantanamo Bay on June 10, has refused to receive al-Aslami's body until international authorities launch an investigation into the three suicides. Al-Aslami's father and the families of the two Saudis have expressed skepticism at the autopsy reports, saying [...]

Authorities in Nepal Sunday released two powerful former ministers in the royal direct rule cabinet led by King Gyanendra following an order from the Nepalese Supreme Court . The released former ministers were Kamal Thapa and Tanka Dhakal. While passing the order, Justices Sharada Prasad Pandit and Badri Kumar Basnet said the detention of the [...]

A leading British judge has said that sitting judges are considering breaking tradition by speaking out against recent verbal attacks on the judiciary by government ministers and elements of the press . Judge Keith Cutler, Secretary of the Council of Circuit Judges , observed in a radio interview Sunday that judges felt "that there was [...]

The Boston Globe reported Sunday that the US government has failed to allow Guantanamo Bay detainees access to witnesses even though some of those witnesses were available. The US has told detainees in the past that it was unable to locate witnesses requested by terror suspects, but a Boston Globe reporter was able to locate [...]

A Serbian government official has told AP that war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic was hiding in Serbia until last year, but his current location remains unknown. Rasim Ljajic , Serbia's Minister of Human and Minority Rights and head of a government committee working with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague [...]

Governor Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana signed a bill Saturday that could ban most abortions in the state. The bill, which would apply to all abortions except when the life of the mother is threatened, will take effect only if the US Supreme Court overturns the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision or if the US Constitution [...]

A trial began Saturday for 14 Egyptians charged with helping the men who carried out two bombings in the city of Cairo in April 2005 that left 10 people and the two bombers dead. Tourists appeared to be the targets and an American and two French citizens were among the dead. The defendants face various [...]