JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that the likely outcome of the withdrawal of coalition forces from Iraq is a backslide into sectarian violence resulting in the split into smaller states based on ethnoreligious...
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Iraq to close controversial detention center over abuse claims
Iraq's Justice Ministry announced Monday that it will close a Green Zone detention center because of alleged human rights violations. Justice spokesperson Haidar al-Saad said this decision was made after last month's investigation into the prison's living...
Iraq government torturing detainees in secret prisons: Amnesty
The Iraqi government is operating secret prisons, and suspects held in Iraqi custody have been systematically tortured since before the 2003 US invasion, according to a Tuesday report from Amnesty International (AI) . The report, "Broken...
Rwanda: Flawed Elections and the Politics of 'Genocide Denial'
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder, defense counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law says that even though the White House is now more openly critical of Rwandan President Paul...
ACLU renews calls for Bush-era detainee 'torture' investigation
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday called on the Obama administration to stop shielding Bush administration officials from civil suit and criminal prosecution in relation to the treatment of detainees in US custody....
The US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on Monday heard arguments in the appeal of Army Spc. Charles Graner , sentenced to 10 years in prison for...
Top military appeals court upholds Abu Ghraib guard convictions
The US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on Friday upheld the convictions of two soldiers found guilty of offenses committed as guards at Abu Ghraib prison . Army Spc. Sabrina Harman...
Iraq court convicts man in kidnapping and death of UK aid worker
An Iraqi court Tuesday convicted and sentenced an Iraqi man to life in prison for the 2004 kidnapping and killing of British aid worker Margaret Hassan . Ali Lutfi al-Rawi, allegedly a member of a gang that...
A federal appeals court in Baghdad on Tuesday reduced the sentence for the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoe at former US president George W. Bush from three years to one year. Lawyers for Muntadar...
Chibli Mallat : "Yesterday we encountered a strange moment of serendipity. Dr. Lateef Rashid, invited those of us working on the Global Justice Project: Iraq to dinner...
