The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina Monday began the trial of Momcilo Mandic , a former interior minister and then justice minister in the Bosnian Serb government of...
Several more European leaders voiced concern Monday over the death sentence handed down over the weekend for Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants in the Dujail crimes against humanity case ....
An Italian court on Monday convicted Egyptian Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed for his role in the 2004 Madrid train bombings , sentencing him to ten years in prison. Ahmed's trial began earlier this year [JURIST...
Iraqi authorities Monday began the delicate process of lifting the curfew imposed in Baghdad and two other provinces over the weekend in anticipation of possible violence following Sunday's announcement of the Dujail trial verdict against ousted Iraqi...
Judicial independence has been threatened by legislative and executive branches of government across the country, former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor told a group of 800 judges, lawyers, and others at the Ninth Circuit Judicial...
Iraq, Haiti, Guinea, and Myanmar rank as the world's most corrupt nations in 2006 according to the latest annual Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index released Monday. The report shows a strong link between poverty and...
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is prepared to return to Thailand to answer to possible corruption charges, Thaksin's lawyer said Monday, though Thailand has struggled to find evidence of Thaksin's alleged corruption following...
South Korean cloning scientist Hwang Woo-Suk has filed a lawsuit seeking reinstatement to his former position as a university professor, arguing that he should not have been fired in response to fraud, embezzlement, and bioethics charges [JURIST...
A business associate of former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma lost his appeal Monday on corruption charges before the highest appeals court in South Africa, leaving Zuma's name tarnished as a potential presidential candidate....
Statistics indicate that the US Justice Department has declined to prosecute 87 percent of all terrorism case referrals from the FBI in fiscal year 2006, according to new findings released by Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse...