JURIST Guest Columnist Roland Amoussouga, Spokesperson and Senior Legal Adviser at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), says that the recent United Nations agreement with Rwanda over the detention in Rwanda of convicted ICTR prisoners is simply an agreement...
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ICTR convicts allowed to serve sentences in Rwanda under new agreement
Rwandan Foreign Minister Charles Murigande and the registrar of the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) , Adama Dieng signed an agreement Tuesday allowing those convicted by the genocide tribunal to serve...
Myanmar, Somalia ranked most corrupt countries in annual survey
Somalia and Myanmar rank as the world's most corrupt nations in 2007 according to the latest annual Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index released Wednesday. The index ranked 180 countries based on observations by businesspeople and...
King of Swaziland approves new constitution amid international concerns
After sending a draft back to lawmakers for reconsideration earlier this month, King Mswati III of Swaziland has signed a new constitution for the sub-Saharan African nation amid concerns that it...
King Mswati III of Swaziland has officially refused to sign the final draft of the country's proposed constitution , which passed through both the House of Assembly and Senate of Swaziland in June [JURIST...
A member of Swaziland's Parliament says that King Mswati III has sent the country's proposed Constitution , adopted by the House of Assembly and Senate in June back to the country's parliament [official...
The House of Assembly and Senate of Swaziland have approved a new constitution . King Mswati III must now approve the document, which fuses centuries-old traditions and Western democratic principles. The constitution is...
International brief ~ Turk president vetoes penal code provision on Koran teaching
Leading Friday's international brief, Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer Friday vetoed a part of the new penal code {JURIST report] approved by the Turkish Parliament that would have lowered the penalty for anyone...