The vast majority of Tunisia's 1400 lawyers went on a one-day strike Wednesday to protest alleged police brutality last week when 200 police stormed a Tunis court to remove 50 lawyers gathered in opposition to an upcoming visit by Israli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for the UN-sponsored World Information Summit . Sharon will be the [...]

A Israeli government-commissioned study of Jewish settlements on the West Bank submitted Tuesday and made public Wednesday has concluded that 105 outposts are illegal, including 54 built on land not belonging to the Israeli state, of which 15 built on established Palestinian property must be removed immediately. The report by former state prosecutor Talia Sasson [...]

Bosnia opened its own war crimes court in Sarajevo Wednesday in a move hailed by leaders of the international war crimes tribunal at The Hague who anticipate it will absorb some of that court's backlog as well as gradually devolve legal responsibility for prosecuting local war crimes to local authorities. ICTY prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, [...]

{JURIST] Taiwanese leaders have condemned the proposed Chinese "anti-secession" law outlined Tuesday at a meeting of the National People's Congress in Beijing. The law, the full draft of which has still not been made public, endorses "non-peaceful means" of reunification in the event that peaceful processes fail. Taiwan Vice President Annette Lu said that the [...]

FBI Director Robert Mueller suggested to the House Appropriations Committee in testimony Tuesday that terror suspects be legally prohibited from buying guns. Under current federal regulatory practice, highlighted yesterday in a new Government Accountability Office report , persons suspected of links to terror groups are not included among the categories of persons banned from buying [...]

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke offered additional concessions on the British government's proposed Prevention of Terrorism Bill Wednesday after the legislation came back from the upper chamber House of Lords riddled with amendments designed to protect traditional civil liberties against potentially-arbitrary state action. Changes called for by the Lords included the issuance of all so-called [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that not only does the President have the authority to direct states to comply with a decision of the International Court of Justice, but in fact he has the obligation to do so. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in March, [...]

Ramush Haradinaj, who resigned yesterday as Kosovo prime minister after being indicted for war crimes in connection with his activities while a senior commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army in the late 1990s, flew to the Hague Wednesday on a German military plane to face trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [...]

United Nations Declaration on Human Cloing, adopted by resolution of the UN General Assembly, March 8, 2005. Read the full text of the Declaration prefaced with explanatory remarks. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Log of (and links to) Army CID reports of investigations into US treatment of prisoners in Iraq, US Department of Defense, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, March 4, 2005 . Read the full text of the reports here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.