The Supreme Court of Chile put the question of whether to extradite former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on hold Tuesday as the court could not come to an agreement on further action in the case. Supreme Court President Alberto Chaigneau said that the case was very complex, and that the court had only reviewed one [...]

The Supreme Court of Chile on Tuesday upheld the life sentence for former National Intelligence Centre (CNI) director General Hugo Salas Wenzel for his involvement in the murder of 12 suspected opposition members in 1987. The sentence is the most serious handed down by a Chilean court for crimes committed during the reign of former [...]

Her Majesty the Queen v. Steven Murray Truscott, Ontario Court of Appeal, August 28, 2007 . Read the full text of the judgment . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The White House has compiled a list of the top five candidates to replace US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as head of the Department of Justice, an anonymous White House official told AP Tuesday. According to the official, the Bush administration has spoken with over 20 congressional leaders on both sides of the party line [...]

The Court of Appeal for Ontario on Tuesday overturned the 1959 guilty verdict against Steven Truscott for the rape and murder of 12-year-old Lynne Harper. Last year, the Canadian appeals court heard new evidence suggesting that the death very likely may have occurred much later then prosecutors originally argued, when Truscott, then 14, was in [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that notwithstanding his resignation, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales might still be subject to federal civil suits in connection with his involvement in the denial of Geneva Conventions rights and protections to US prisoners and the authorization of secret and “coercive interrogation” [...]

The US Department of Defense will send an investigative team headed by Pentagon Inspector General Claude M. Kicklighter to Iraq to probe allegations of fraud and corruption related to military contracts, a DOD spokesman said Tuesday. The team will concentrate on incongruities concerning weapons and supplies bought by the US and intended for the use [...]

Russia has not yet received any evidence from Britain with which to prosecute Andrei Lugovoy , the primary suspect in the November 2006 murder of British citizen and former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko , the chief of the investigating committee at the General Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday. In an interview scheduled to be published [...]

The government of Pakistan has reiterated its refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in the wake of its latest test of a nuclear-capable missile, saying that nuclear arms are vital to a stable balance of power, according to Tuesday reports. Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said that India – Pakistan's [...]

Abdullah Gul was sworn in as Turkey's new president Tuesday after winning a majority of votes in the Turkish parliament's third round of voting on his candidacy. Gul, supported by the Islamist-leaning Justice and Development Party (AKP) who had been serving as Turkey's foreign minster, pledged to uphold Turkey's secularist traditions. The Turkish army , [...]