Noriega loses new bid to block France extradition as US judge lifts stay
US District Judge William Hoeveler Friday rejected arguments by lawyers for former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega that his extradition to France would violate his prisoner of war status, lifing a stay of...
France will treat Noriega as POW after extradition: US State Department
The US Department of State is satisfied that France will treat former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega as a prisoner of war if extradited to France upon his release from prison [BOP materials;...
Federal judge temporarily blocks Noriega extradition to France
US District Judge William Hoeveler temporarily blocked the French extradition of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega Wednesday to give Noriega's lawyers time to argue that his rights will not be fully protected in France....
A US magistrate judge for the Southern District of Florida issued a ruling Tuesday recommending that the US Department of State extradite former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to France when he is released...
US judge refuses to block France extradition bid for ex-Panama chief Noriega
A US judge Friday refused to reject a French extradition request for former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to face charges of money laundering through French banks. Noriega and his wife were sentenced in absentia to...
Ex-Panama dictator Noriega challenges France extradition bid
Lawyers representing former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega Monday filed motions seeking to avert extradition from the US to France on money laundering charges when he is released from federal prison on September 9 ....
Ex-Panama dictator Noriega to be freed from US prison in September
Ex-Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega , who has spent the last 17 years in US custody, including 15 years in federal prison on drug trafficking and racketeering charges, is to be released on September 9, 2007 ,...
JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that minimum due process guarantees under customary international law must not be denied when Congress attempts to articulate forms of procedure for new US military commissions...When considering...
US court sentences former Ukraine PM to nine years prison for money laundering
At the end of the first US trial of a foreign head of government since that of Panama's Manuel Noriega, a US federal judge in San Francisco Friday sentenced former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko ...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, says that although the return to Haiti of ousted former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide is legally and constitutionally permissible, a double standard in the...
