JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says the time has come to call President Pervez Musharraf - the latest of Pakistan's military "Caesars" - to account for his contemptuous disregard of Pakistan's constitution and the...
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Former Illinois governor heads to prison on corruption charges
Former Illinois Governor George Ryan headed to federal prison Wednesday morning to serve a 6 1/2-year sentence on corruption charges after the US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Ryan's request to remain...
Former oil executive pleads guilty to bribing Nigerian officials
James Edward Steph, a former oil executive of a subsidiary of Willbros Group Inc. , pleaded guilty Monday to charges of conspiracy relating to a scheme to bribe Nigerian officials heading the country's state-owned oil company,...
Former Illinois governor ordered to prison to start serving corruption sentence
Former Illinois Governor George Ryan was ordered Friday to begin serving a 6 1/2 prison sentence in less than two weeks. US District Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer set November 7 as the...
Federal appeals court refuses to re-hear appeal of Illinois ex-governor Ryan
The full US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Thursday declined review of the August ruling of a three-judge Seventh Circuit panel affirming the conviction of former Illinois Gov. George Ryan on...
Supreme Challenge: Pakistan's Presidential Election Goes to Court
JURIST Guest Columnist Moeen Cheema, professor of Law & Policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan, says that in its forthcoming ruling on the legal validity of General Pervez Musharraf's candidacy in the country's recent presidential...
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that despite recent remarkable rulings the Supreme Court of Pakistan should avoid venturing further into the treacherous waters of judicial activism and should not disturb the new political...
Detention in Russia illustrates escalation of crackdown on rights groups
Neil Hicks : "The brief detention of five foreign human rights activists who were attending a planned international meeting commemorating the work of Anna Politkovskaya in the provincial city of Nizhny Novgorod on...
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that constitutional questions remaining after the Pakistan Supreme Court's recent ruling that President Pervez Musharraf may contest the upcoming Pakistan presidential election as the Commander-in-Chief of the armed...
Federal appeals court upholds fraud conviction of Illinois ex-governor Ryan
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday upheld the conviction of former Illinois Gov. George Ryan on fraud and corruption charges, ruling that the district court judge acted properly when she...