Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party announced a draft bill Monday that would give the President of Taiwan the power to take action to "safeguard Taiwan's sovereignty and territory" – if necessary, without legislative approval. The draft legislation, brought forward in response to China's newly-passed anti-secession law in expected to be formally presented sometime Monday. It [...]

Following up on a report submitted last week to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon , the Israeli Cabinet Sunday agreed to remove the 24 Jewish outposts established on the Palestinian West Bank since Sharon took power in March 2001. Outposts – unofficial plantings of Isreali citizens in Palestinian territory to prevent the formation of a Palestinian [...]

Gojko Jankovic, a Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader, was transferred to the detention facility for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Monday after surrendering to Serbian authorities over the weekend. Jankovic is accused of encouraging his soldiers to perform acts of rape and torture on women arrested in the town of Foca during the [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Admiral John Hutson (Ret. USN), former Navy Judge Advocate General, President and Dean of Franklin Pierce Law Center, and now a party to the ACLU torture suit against Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, wonders what myriad reports of prisoner abuses by US military personnel say about the America we have become…. I recently [...]

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, March 14. The US Senate convenes at 10 AM ET today to begin consideration of the FY 2006 budget resolution. Watch a live webcast of proceedings. The Senate Judiciary Committee Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship Subcommittee will hold a [...]

Anti-Secession Law, adopted at the Third Session of the Tenth Chinese National People's Congress, March 14, 2005, providing in Article 8 for "non-peaceful means" of reunification with Taiwan as a last resort: In the event that the "Taiwan independence" secessionist forces should act under any name or by any means to cause the fact of [...]

AP is reporting that in its Monday session in Beijing China's National People's Congress has approved an anti-secession law authorizing the use of "non-peaceful means" against Taiwan as a last resort in reunification. 9:02 PM ET – China's Xinhua news agency now has more and has posted the full text of the anti-secession law in [...]

US District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer late Saturday blocked out-of-country transfers of 13 Yemeni detainees held by the US at Guantanamo Bay pending a hearing on their lawyers' request for 30-days notice to allow investigation of whether they might face torture or indefinite detention in their home countries. The lawyers filed their action after learning [...]

The Spanish Interior Ministry said Saturday that it had arrested some 41 people, including seven lawyers, for money laundering of some $337 million that may have involved funds from troubled Russian oil company Yukos . The international money laundering operation is the largest ever discovered in Spain; the Yukos money appears to have come from [...]

The presidium of China's National People's Congress (NPC) announced Saturday that the nation's legislators will vote Monday on the passing of the Anti-Secession Law , aimed to foretall Taiwan's secession from China and to promote peaceful reunification and territorial integrity. The proposal, however, allows for the use of force by China's 2.5 million strong People's [...]