Honduras interim government skeptical of pending OAS rights report
Honduran Interim Deputy Foreign Minister Martha Alvarado said Monday that she expects a biased report from the international panel that arrived Monday to investigate alleged human rights abuses. A delegation from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH), which...
JURIST Guest Columnist Charles Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that while having the International Criminal Court take up cases arising out of the violence that followed Kenya's 2007 elections could be convenient for local politicians...
Honduras government lays sedition charges against Zelaya supporters
The Honduran Office of the Prosecutor of Common Crimes indicted 24 supporters of ousted president Manuel Zelaya on charges of sedition and damages Friday. All 24 were accused of robbery, sedition,...
JURIST Guest Columnist James Friedman of the University of Maine School of Law says that despite the potential political cost to President Obama of investigating the torture memos released by the former Bush administration, failure to act on the memos...
Argentina high court rejects mandatory blood tests of alleged 'Dirty War'-era abductees
The Supreme Court of Argentina ruled Tuesday that individuals cannot be required to submit blood samples to test whether they were abducted as children during the "Dirty War" . The court issued two...
Thailand court refuses extradition to US of suspected Russian arms dealer
The Bangkok Criminal Court on Tuesday refused to extradite a suspected Russian arms trafficker to the US to face prosecution for supplying weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) . In denying the extradition request [AFP...
Fourth Circuit affirms CIA contractor detainee abuse conviction
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Monday affirmed the conviction of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor David Passaro on assault charges related to the abuse of...
JURIST Guest Columnist Robbie Sabel of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in Jerusalem, Israel, says that despite its partisan nature, a report issued by Israel's government on the legal and factual underpinnings of the December-January Gaza offensive is a...
Kenya urged to establish independent tribunal for post-election violence cases
Kenya should establish an independent tribunal to prosecute those believed to be responsible for the post-election violence in Kenya in late 2007 and early 2008 instead of relying on its own judicial system, Human Rights...
Iran began the trial of 100 detained protesters from the post-election turmoil Saturday as former Iranian president Mohammad Ali Khatami decried the proceedings as a "show trial." Khatami said that the...
