Search Results for: 2005-07-27

Khalil al-Dulaimi, chief defense counsel for Saddam Hussein , said Wednesday that the Iraqi High Tribunal is obstructing his efforts to appeal Hussein's death sentence for crimes against humanity committed in the Iraqi town of...

A federal judge Monday rejected Missouri's lethal injection protocols as unconstitutional for the second time. Last month, US District Judge Fernando Gaitan ordered Missouri to submit new protocols by...

Detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison , recently transferred from US to Iraqi control , are allegedly being tortured by prison officials, according to an independent observer who told the UK's Telegraph that screaming was heard...

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D'Amato of Northwestern University School of Law offers his analysis of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Middle East conflict involving Israel, Hezbollah and Lebanon... Hezbollah's surprising television...

The entertainment industry and Sharman Networks announced Thursday that they had reached a settlement regarding Sharman's Kazaa software, which allowed illegal Internet downloads of music and movies . The company agreed to pay...

JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School says that the principle of proportionality in the use of force is a necessary, sensible and humane doctrine of international law that Israel and Hezbollah would do well to...

Wire services are reporting that the US Supreme Court has ruled that military commissions at Guantanamo Bay are illegal under military law and the Geneva Conventions , holding in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld [Duke Law...

The floor of the Afghan parliament has witnessed its first outbreak of violence, with lawmakers physically and verbally assaulting a controversial female legislator who called several of the country's mujahedeen leaders criminals unfit for public office. Female colleagues of...

Canada has deported Samir Ait Mohamed, an Algerian terror suspect accused of plotting to blow up the largely Jewish Montreal neighborhood of Outremont, to an undisclosed location Wednesday. Canadian authorities detained Mohamed when he attempted to enter the US...

A Chinese court Tuesday sentenced former minister of land and natural resources Tian Fengshan to life in prison after finding him guilty of accepting over $500,000 in bribes during his time in office. The Beijing Number Two Intermediate...