The Congressional Black Caucus is expected to announce Thursday its opposition to the confirmation of US Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. . The Caucus is made of 42 Democratic House members and Sen. Barack Obama , who said he has not yet decided on whether he will vote for Alito. Caucus Chairman Rep. [...]
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JURIST Guest Columnist Donna Arzt, Director of the Center for Global Law and Practice at Syracuse University College of Law, says that when the incoming president of Liberia takes office in January she should ask Nigeria to extradite former Liberian president Charles Taylor – indicted for war crimes by the Special Court for Sierra Leone [...]
A former Rwandan mayor on Wednesday pleaded guilty to aiding the 1994 genocide as part of a plea deal with prosecutors for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) . Under the plea deal, Paul Bisengimana, former mayor of Gikoro, pleaded guilty to murder and extermination as crimes against humanity, but three other charges of [...]
US House Rep. Tom DeLay has asked the judge in his case to split the remaining two charges against him and move forward with a trial on one of them. After the judge in the case, Pat Priest , threw out one conspiracy charge against DeLay on Monday, only charges of money laundering and conspiracy [...]
The US House has voted to renew the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 , under which the federal government guarantees insurance coverage for catastrophic losses caused by terror attacks. The House approved H.R. 4314 on Wednesday by a 371-49 vote, moving the legislation to a conference with the Senate, which earlier approved S. 467 [...]
The UK House of Lords , the country's highest judicial body, ruled against the government Thursday in a case involving the use of evidence that may have been obtained through torture. The ruling prohibits the UK courts, and especially the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, from using evidence that may have been obtained through torture; it [...]
The two largest political parties in the European Parliament have agreed to support a draft bill designed to require all European-based telecommunications companies to store records of phone and email users for up to 24 months to aid in criminal investigations by police officials into serious crimes like terrorism. The head of the Civil Liberties [...]
A Russian bill designed to increase state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by requiring them to register with a governmental commission has draw sharp criticism from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as troubling to the US government "at all levels." Rice, speaking in Ukraine Wednesday, warned that freely-operating NGOs were necessary to ensuring stable [...]
French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has stated that contrary to press reports, French airports were 'apparently not' used by CIA 'ghost flights' allegedly moving US detainees around the world where they might have been tortured for information. She stressed the fact that the CIA primarily uses American bases in Europe for flight stops and there [...]
French judges ruled Wednesday against the deportation of a 21-year old Mauritanian man accused of participating in the suburban riots that broke out across France last month. The regional court in Pontoise , a town of 30,000 just outside Paris, concluded that allegations against the alleged rioter of "grave acts of violence against a law [...]
