An Italian court on Monday ordered former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and British corporate lawyer David Mills to face trial on corruption charges. According to Italian media reports, Mills in 1997 and 1998 allegedly gave false testimony at trials involving a Berlusconi-owned broadcasting company in exchange for some $600,000 that Berlusconi funneled to Mills. [...]

Nicolas Eyle : "Nearly three decades after California cracked down on rising crime rates with tougher sentencing laws, Californians are beginning to realize the downside of what many experts say has been one of the most poorly planned prison expansions in the country. A recent Justice Policy Institute study states that California leads the nation [...]

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Sunday he was optimistic that a proposed amendment to the Egyptian constitution to permit multi-candidate direct elections for the Egyptian presidency will pass when the Egyptian parliament begins its next session on November 8. The proposed amendment to Article 76, which was approved by referendum in May 2005, allows an [...]

Public trust in the Chinese judiciary needs in be restored in the face of court corruption and systemic failures to implement court orders, according to a report by the China's chief justice submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Monday. The report says that 800,000 court orders remain unimplemented by the courts [...]

Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri told a British appeals court Monday that his February conviction on incitement to murder charges should be overturned on the grounds that he was denied a fair trial. Hamza was convicted on 11 of 15 counts of inciting murder for urging his followers to kill Jews and other non-Muslims and [...]

Khalil al-Dulaimi, chief defense counsel for Saddam Hussein , appeared in court Monday, presented 12 demands to the judge to be satisfied to end the ongoing defense team boycott, and stormed out of court after the presiding judge told him that Arab and foreign lawyers may only appear as advisors to Hussein. Al-Dulaimi demanded an [...]

A British advocacy group condemned the UK government for failing to properly regulate hired mercenaries operating in Iraq and Afghanistan in a report released Monday that proposes regulations to hold mercenaries accountable for alleged abuses. The report by the War on Want charges that no prosecutions have been filed against paid mercenaries, despite several documented [...]

Absentee Ohio voters must continue to show proof of ID when casting ballots after a federal appeals court on Sunday stayed a lower court order , handed down last week, that would have temporarily suspended Ohio's voter ID law . The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro's [...]

The North Korean government is "actively committing crimes against humanity" by the starvation and political repression of North Korean citizens, according to a report released Sunday by a blue-ribbon panel comprised of Vaclav Havel , former President of the Czech Republic; former Prime Minister of Norway Kjell Magne Bondevik ; and Holocaust survivor and Nobel [...]

Interim Audit Report on Inappropriate Use of Proprietary Data Markings By The Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) Contractor, US Federal Acquisition Regulation, October 29, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.