Bangladesh prosecutors to drop two corruption charges against PM
The Bangladeshi state prosecutor said Monday that he is seeking to drop two of several corruption charges pending against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina because they were politically motivated. State prosecutor Abdullah Abu said the two charges, as...
Ninth Circuit again affirms Ukraine ex-PM corruption conviction
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday refused a petition for an en banc rehearing by former Ukranian prime minister Pavlo Lazarenko , who had been on...
The Russian State Duma has effectively extended a national moratorium on the death penalty until 2010 by postponing until then the establishment of jury trials in Chechnya , the only territory in...
Narrowing US War Crimes Law: Having Our Cake and Eating It Too?
JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, a former judge advocate who helped develop and teach the US Department of Defense Law of War Program for almost 20 years, says that US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales...
Federal appeals court orders outspoken judge off Indian Trust case
The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday directed that US District Judge Royce Lamberth , the outspoken jurist presiding over the 10-year old Indian Trust case involving the alleged mismanagement of American...
ACLU wants FCC probe of NSA phone records retention in telecom merger review
The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday requested that the Federal Communications Commission hold back approval of a merger between telecommunications giants AT&T and BellSouth until the FCC...
ACLU launches legal campaign against NSA phone records gathering
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed nationally-coordinated complaints on Wednesday against telecommunications companies and the attorneys general of twenty states requesting investigations into the legality of information sharing between phone companies and the National Security Agency...
Verizon Communications said Tuesday that it did not turn over phone records to the National Security Agency (NSA) , nor was it asked to do so, as was reported last week....
FCC chief calls for probe of domestic phone records turnover to NSA
Federal Communications Commission chief Michael J. Copps said Monday that the agency should investigate the access to domestic customers' phone records allegedly granted to the National Security Agency (NSA) [official...
Russia prosecutor asks for death penalty in Beslan terror case
Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel on Thursday requested a death sentence for Nurpashi Kulayev , the sole surviving attacker from the September 2004 Beslan school siege . Kulayev has pleaded not guilty ...
