UN rights experts urge Bosnia not to release convicted war criminal
A group of independent UN human rights experts on Wednesday warned against the possible release of convicted war criminal Milorad Trbic following the reversal of his sentence by the Bosnian Constitutional Court . Trbic was...
Two Bosnian Serbs sentenced to prison for roles in Srebenica massacre
The Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) war crimes court ruled on Thursday that two former Bosnian Serb police officers were guilty of aiding and abetting genocide. The court convicted Dusko Jevic and Mendeljev Djuric for taking part...
Health Care in the Sixth Circuit: A Devastatingly Convincing Decision
JURIST Guest Columnist Charles Fried of Harvard Law School says that the recent appellate court ruling finding the individual mandate constitutional gave the law's opponents their full due in a careful and thoughtful manner, but went on to properly dismiss...
Supreme Court rules seriousness of drug offense determined at time of conviction
The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday in McNeill v. United States that a federal sentencing court must determine whether "an offense under State law" is...
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) on Wednesday apprehended alleged Serbian war criminal Dragan Vasiljkovic in New South Wales. Vasilijkovic, also known as Daniel Sneeden, had been on the run since March...
UK rights commission says airport body scanners may be illegal
Controversial full-body scanners currently used in two UK airports may be illegal, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) announced Monday. The EHRC made the statement in a letter to Department...
Australia court allows accused Serb war criminal extradition appeal
The Federal Court of Australia ruled Wednesday that former Serbian paramilitary commander Dragan Vasiljkovic may appeal his extradition to Croatia, finding a real chance of prejudice if the extradition were carried out....
Australia court rejects accused Serb war criminal extradition appeal
The Australian Federal Court Tuesday dismissed the application of former Serbian paramilitary commander Dragan Vasiljkovic for review of a 2007 extradition order that he be handed over to Croatian authorities....
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faisal Naseem Chaudhry, an advocate of the Lahore High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, says that the greatest danger to law and the constitution in Pakistan in the wake of General Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule...
Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal judges sworn in at Cambodia royal palace
Seventeen Cambodian judges and 10 others from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Japan, Poland, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, and the US who will serve on the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal were sworn in Monday in...
