Argentine judge Jorge Urso has decided to send accused Bosnian Serb war criminal Milan Lukic, arrested in Buenos Aires in August, to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague for trial, according to AFP sources. Lukic, one of the 10 most-wanted Bosnian Serbs, had been on the run for more than [...]

The families of fifteen Cubans deported when they failed to reach US soil have filed suit in US District Court, claiming that the US government's so-called "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy is inconsistent with US and international law. The fifteen Cubans fled their homeland in a small homemade boat, but only managed to reach an abandoned bridge [...]

The 23-member Santiago Appeals Court Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling granting former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bail, but at the same time stripped him of immunity an additional human rights case, opening the way for prosecutors to charge him with crimes associated with the so-called Caravan of Death . The "Caravan" was a military [...]

Democratic senators on the US Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday pressed apparent inconsistencies in answers to questions by Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito during his third day of his confirmation hearings. Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) contrasted Alito's Tuesday testimony that he would keep an "open mind" on any future abortion cases before the Supreme Court [...]

Spanish authorities have charged former Argentine naval officer Ricardo Miguel Cavallo with genocide for his involvement in the disappearance of hundreds of people during a 1976 Argentine military coup. Papers published Wednesday allege that between 20,000 and 30,000 people were forcibly kidnapped or "disappeared" following the takeover, including approximately 600 Spanish citizens. Just under 9,000 [...]

Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot said Wednesday that the EU constitution is "dead" as far as the Netherlands is concerned, rejecting promised efforts earlier this week by Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik to attempt to revive the charter. Bot spoke after meeting with Plassnik, whose country currently holds the EU presidency , and reiterated that [...]

The East African country of Djibouti has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to settle a dispute over whether a French judge has the authority to summon high-level Djibouti witnesses to investigate the possible assassination of a French judge in 1995. Judge Bernard Borrel's death was originally ruled a suicide, but French investigators now [...]

A German court on Wednesday announced that the trial of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel will restart on February 9, with a verdict expected sometime in March. Zundel's trial was postponed in November after Judge Ulrich Meinerzhagen fired one of Zundel's defense lawyers . Germany has charged Zundel with incitement, libel and disparaging the dead in [...]

Saidjahan Zainabiddinov, an Uzbek human rights activist who witnessed an violent uprising in Andijan last May has been put on trial on charges of undermining the constitutional system and assisting terrorism for aiding journalists covering the uprising and telephoning foreign embassies. Zainabiddinov gave eyewitness accounts of the incident which took place when thousands of protesters [...]

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday sent memos to immigration judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals informing them that he has ordered a review of US immigration courts. Gonzales said the review was necessary because of the poor quality of work and discourteous conduct of an increasing number of the judges employed by [...]