The Prosecutor v. Ante Gotovina, Amended Indictment, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, February 19, 2004 . Read the full text of the indictment . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

A special high-security war crimes court sitting in Belgrade Monday convicted 14 former members of Serb militias for killing some 200 Croatian POWs and wounded at a pig farm near Vukovar in 1991 at the end of a three-month siege there. Sentences ranging from five to 20 years were handed down. Two accused were acquitted. [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari in four consolidated cases concerning a 2003 Texas electoral redistricting plan strongly supported by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay that effectively reduced the number of Democratic US Representatives from the state and increased the Republican majority in the House. As revealed by press reports earlier this month, [...]

AP is reporting that the judge in the first federal Vioxx case has declared a mistrial. The jury reported over the weekend that it was deadlocked, but US District Judge Eldon Fallon had urged them to resume their deliberations . 10:28 AM ET – Judge Fallon has said he will meet with lawyers from both [...]

Retired Croatian general Ante Gotovina pleaded not guilty Monday in his first appearance before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague after he was transferred to its detention facility over the weekend following his arrest in Spain on Wednesday. The tribunal's indictment charges him in connection with the killing of Croatian [...]

An internal Israeli Foreign Ministry document disclosed Sunday claims that the European Union is breaching international laws against terrorism by permitting contact with the radical Islamist groups Hamas and Hezbollah in the course of monitoring the upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections, in which Hamas is running candidates. The document cited UN Security Council Resolution 1373 , [...]

Australian police arrested 16 people Sunday after a massive race riot in a Sydney suburb set 5000 people, mostly white men and youths, against individuals of apparent Middle Eastern descent. New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney described the outbreak as "the worst violence that I have ever seen in my policing service of 40 [...]

The trial of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye on charges of treason and rape is set to begin on December 19. Besigye has been denied bail as he faces separate charges of terrorism and illegal possession of firearms before a military court. His lawyers have argued that the military has no jurisdiction over civilians and [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that repeated protestations from President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other US administration officials that "we do not torture" miss the point that the US has by any meaningful standard engaged in illegal cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners [...]

The Iraqi Human Rights Ministry said late Sunday that 13 prisoners in an overcrowded facility run by the Iraqi Interior Ministry were abuse victims who required medical treatment. The detainees have been transferred to a hospital and are under guard. The Ministry also said that an investigating judge has ordered the immediate release of 56 [...]