Liberia ex-president may go free due to budget constraints on war crimes court
Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) prosecutor Stephen Rapp has told Reuters that lack of court funds due to the global economic downturn may require the release of former Liberian President Charles...
Egypt on Sunday called for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to delay issuing an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for a least a year, in order to allow peace talks...
The European Commission (EC) on Thursday reported that Romania has not made sufficient progress in its anti-corruption campaign since its accession to the European Union (EU) two years ago. The EC's report commended...
Officials from the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Thursday that the ICC has not issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir , refuting Wednesday reports that the...
Italy legislature to hold right-to-die vote despite comatose woman's death
Italian lawmakers have said they still plan to vote on legislation that would make it a crime to remove a feeding tube from a comatose patient, despite the death Monday of...
An Albania Supreme Court judge was shot four times outside his home in the capital Tirana, according to local police Monday. Ardian Nuni , a former law professor nominated to the high court in 2007, was...
Mexico publishes law establishing fingerprint database of mobile phone users
The Mexican government published a law Monday that will create a database of mobile phone users in the country, including vital information and fingerprints, once it takes effect in April. The law, published in the...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Horowitz, Research Director at human rights and public interest investigation firm One World Research, says that notwithstanding the pending closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison and all the publicity surrounding that, if the US government...
Turkish court sentences Kurdish lawmaker to prison for terrorist propaganda
A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced a Kurdish member of the Grand National Assembly , the Turkish parliament, to 18 months in prison on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda. Aysel Tugluk was convicted in connection with...
SNAFU at the AU: Is Regionalism the ICC's Biggest Challenge?
JURIST Guest Columnist Wes Rist of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that if the African Union is successful in its bid to sway the UN Security Council to delay the ICC case against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir,...
