Federal judge rejects jurisdictional challenge by indicted Blackwater guards
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday rejected two motions challenging the court's ability to hear the case filed on behalf of five indicted Blackwater USA [corporate website; JURIST news...
Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman major general Abdel Karim Khalaf said Thursday that the country would not renew a contract allowing Blackwater Worldwide private security forces to operate within the country. Under the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) [CFR...
Iraq releases jailed interior ministry officials suspected of Baath party ties
Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani said Friday that 23 employees of the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior who were arrested this week for alleged attempts to rebuild Saddam Hussein's Baath party [BBC backgrounder; JURIST...
Iraq interior ministry officials arrested for suspected Baath party ties
At least 23 employees of the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior have been arrested this week for alleged attempts to rebuild Saddam Hussein's Baath party , a ministry spokesman confirmed Thursday. Speaking...
Human rights violations continuing in Iraq despite security improvement: UN
While general security conditions in Iraq have improved, human rights violations have continued, according to a report released Tuesday by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) . In its 13th report on the human rights...
Iraq planning to prosecute prison torture suspects: rights officials
Officials for Iraq's Human Rights Ministry have said that they plan to prosecute those suspected of torturing inmates of the country's prison system, according to a Wednesday report . The country signed on to the UN's Convention Against...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist William Montgomery, US Ambassador to Yugoslavia (later Serbia and Montenegro) from 2001-2004, says that as the euphoria over the arrest of Radovan Karadzic fades and reality sets in, it's clear that his case poses continuing challenges...
The Iraqi Oil Contracts and the Importance of Independent Counsel
JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says the Iraqi government needs to secure independent counsel over and above whatever guidance it has received from US government advisers before entering into key oil...
One of the bombers involved in a series of suicide attacks in Mosul, Iraq, in April was a former detainee held at Guantanamo Bay , the US military said Wednesday. Kuwaiti Abdullah Salim Ali al-Ajmi was detained...
The Iraqi parliament gave first reading Monday to a draft bill forwarded by the Iraqi cabinet which could allow for the pardon and release of around 5,000 detainees currently held in Iraqi prisons....
