China's practice of "internet management" continued Friday with a 10-year sentence for Ren Ziyaun, a teacher found guilty of "subversion of state power" after posting "The Road to Democracy" and other essays on the Internet. According to Human Rights in China , the article asserted the right of the people to violently overthrow tyranny . [...]

Leading Friday's environmental law news, the US Environmental Protection Agency has ruled against a petition from the state of North Carolina to force the cleanup of coal-fired power plants in other states that North Carolina argued contribute to its air pollution problems. The petition was based on the "good neighbor" provision (Sec. 126) of the [...]

Provisional findings concerning the death of S. Milosevic, letter from Public Prosecutor's Office, The Hague, to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, March 17, 2006 . Read the full text of the letter. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Liberia has formally asked the Nigerian government to transfer former Liberian President Charles Taylor so that he can face war crimes charges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone . Liberia's transfer request is similar to an extradition request, but Taylor would be turned over to the court for prosecution not to Liberian officials. Taylor [...]

Allen Abney was released from US military custody Thursday evening after his arrest last week for deserting the US Marine Corps in 1968. Abney, now a Canadian citizen, was born in the United States, but grew up in Canada. He joined the Marines in 1968, but fled to Canada after completing basic training in North [...]

Judge Fausto Pocar, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , released updated results Friday from the autopsy on Slobodan Milosevic indicating that toxicological tests undertaken by Dutch investigators showed "no indications" of poisoning, contrary to a claim allegedly made by the indicted ex-Yugoslav president before his sudden death Saturday. While stressing [...]

JURIST Guest Columnists Henry King, Jr., a former prosecutor for the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal now at Case Western Law School, and David Crane, former Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone now at Syracuse University College of Law, say that despite the death of Slobodan Milosevic while on trial before the International [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Ken Gormley of Duquesne University School of Law says that issues arising out of the President's domestic surveillance program are best addressed not by sweeping proposals of censure or legalization, but rather by carefully-crafted legislative reforms… The White House has acknowledged that in the wake of the September 11th attacks, President Bush [...]

The US Navy plans to investigate possible war crimes committed by US troops in a November 2005 Iraq firefight that killed 15 civilians, according to a military official speaking on condition of anonymity Thursday. The incident involved approximately twelve US Marines firing at insurgents after a roadside bomb detonated near a joint US-Iraqi squad patrolling [...]

The US Justice Department Thursday invoked its authority under the 1965 Voting Rights Act to approve scheduled April 22 municipal elections in New Orleans . African American leaders had pressed the Department to block the vote on the grounds that it effectively disenfranchised many African American residents displaced across the country by Hurricane Katrina . [...]