The European Union said Monday that it will only sign a new pre-membership aid and economic deal with Serbia when that country has demonstrated its cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Carla Del Ponte , the ICTY chief prosecutor, will submit a report in the next few weeks to [...]

Charles McArthur Emmanuel , son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, pleaded not guilty Monday to a US federal indictment charging him with involvement in killings and torture in Liberia. Emmanuel, a Boston-born US citizen, was the first person ever to be indicted under a 1994 federal anti-torture statute . During his father's regime, Emmanuel [...]

California resident Hamid Hayat was sentenced to 24 years in a federal prison Monday following his 2006 conviction for supporting terrorism and lying to the FBI. Because Hayat had no prior criminal record, US District Court Judge Garland Burrell Jr. determined that the maximum sentence of 39 years imprisonment was more than needed to sufficiently [...]

Palestinian judges in the Gaza Strip who are unwilling to cooperate with local authorities will be replaced, Hamas spokesmen said Monday in a bid to end a three-month judicial stalemate. The Gaza Strip judiciary, under orders from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas , has refused to cooperate with the Hamas government in Gaza and has ceased [...]

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced Monday that 25 defendants facing war crimes charges have begun a coordinated hunger strike , demanding to be tried under the criminal code in place at the time of their alleged crimes, not under the 2003 criminal code which authorizes forty-year maximum penalties for the crimes charged. The [...]

US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell Monday urged senators to pass long-term legislation to "modernize" the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) , contending that a permanently-revised FISA is critical to fighting terrorism. Speaking at a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on the status of fighting terrorism six years after [...]

An Iraqi judge and spokesman for the Iraqi High Tribunal said at a Baghdad news conference Monday that the execution of three former Saddam-era Iraqi officials sentenced to death for their role in the 1988 Anfal Campaign can proceed without the approval of the Iraqi president because of the scope of their crimes. Iraqi President [...]

The United States and other western countries repeatedly impeded efforts by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to arrest Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic , according to the memoirs of Florence Hartmann , former spokeswoman for ICTY chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte , published Monday in France. Hartmann said that [...]

Several inmates of a federal penitentiary in New York have filed a lawsuit challenging a decision by the US Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to remove religious and spiritual books from prison chapel libraries, according to the New York Times on Monday. Prison chaplains across the country have been directed to remove from prison chapel [...]

The Supreme Court of Indonesia has awarded former Indonesian President Haji Mohammad Suharto the equivalent of $129 million in damages in Suharto’s defamation suit against Time Magazine , according to a court spokesperson. The ruling was made on August 30. Suharto sued Time over a 1999 article that said Suharto had hidden billions of dollars [...]