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10 Oct 2006, 7:09 am
[JURIST] Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont [official website; BBC profile] said Tuesday that his government will lift martial law "as soon as we can and when the situation is suitable. [read post]
24 Nov 2006, 10:31 am
[JURIST] Thailand Army Commander-in-Chief General Sonthi Boonyaratglin [BBC profile], the leader of the military coup [JURIST report; AHRC backgrounder] that deposed civilian prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra [JURIST news archive] in September, told CNN in an interview broadcast Friday that the martial law imposed on the country [JURIST news archive] in the aftermath of the takeover would be [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 9:05 am
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Pakistan will investigate the suicide bombing [CNN report] that took place during the parade welcoming home exiled former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto [BBC profile] earlier this month, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry said Wednesday. [read post]
19 Jun 2009, 3:17 am
[JURIST] Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki [official website, in Arabic; BBC profile] created a special committee Thursday to investigate alleged abuse and torture in the country's prisons. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 10:35 am
[JURIST] The trial for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [official website, in Italian; JURIST news archive] on charges that he paid an underage prostitute for her services was adjourned Wednesday only 10 minutes after opening in Milan. [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 11:52 am
[JURIST] The trial of former Icelandic prime minister Geir Haarde [official profile, in Icelandic] began on Monday, on charges that he was grossly negligent for failing to stop the nation's banking collapse during the 2008 financial crisis [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 10:05 am
The presidential statement condemned the April 12 coup, during which the military took over the government, detained officials, including interim president Raimundo Pereira and former prime minister Carlos Gomes, and disrupted democratic presidential elections. [read post]
19 Dec 2023, 10:00 pm
The landscape of public procurement in the United Kingdom is primed for a significant shift in 2024 following the introduction of the Procurement Act 2023, which received Royal Assent earlier in 2023. [read post]
12 May 2016, 4:46 am
Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said Thursday the government picked the F-35 by Lockheed Martin over the Eurofighter Typhoon and Boeing’s F-18 to replace ... [read post]
26 Feb 2015, 3:52 pm
The “Corinthian 15″ took out federal loans to attend colleges run by Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit [...] [read post]
3 Nov 2017, 6:49 am
The legislation identifies several ways in which the Cambodian government "continues to be undemocratically dominated" by the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) [party website, in Khmer] and Prime Minister Hun Sen [BBC profile], including the passage of laws allowing the government to revoke the charters of non-governmental organizations on a political basis, the jailing of prominent opposition leader Kem Sokha... [read post]
15 Sep 2004, 2:45 am
Malaysia's high court ruled Wednesday that former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim could not appeal a corruption conviction and clear the way for a return to politics. [read post]
8 Feb 2005, 6:04 am
[JURIST] Kuwati Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah on Tuesday warned newspapers that publishing information about investigations of militants could result in the suspension or closure of those papers. [read post]
15 Dec 2005, 9:45 am
[JURIST] The UN Security Council late Thursday unanimously approved a six-month extension of the probe into the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri [JURIST news archive; UN materials] just before the mandate of the investigatory commission currently headed by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis was set to expire. [read post]
15 Aug 2006, 7:19 am
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi [official profile] on Tuesday visited the Yasukuni war shrine [shrine website] on the anniversary of the day when Emperor Hirohito [PBS profile] surrendered World War II in 1945. [read post]
19 Feb 2007, 12:54 am
[JURIST] Australian Prime Minister John Howard [official profile] said Monday that the Australian government will put more pressure on the US to expedite the trial of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive] when US Vice President Dick Cheney [official profile] arrives in Australia on Tuesday for a two-day visit. [read post]
8 Mar 2007, 4:42 am
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [BBC profile; official website, in Japanese] said his government will fully cooperate with an investigation by ruling Liberal Democratic party lawmakers into allegations that the Japanese military forced women into prostitution [JURIST report] in army-operated brothels during World War II. [read post]
16 May 2007, 5:23 am
[JURIST] US Ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalilzad [official profile] said Tuesday that the US will submit a draft resolution to the UN Security Council to establish a tribunal under Chapter VII of the UN Charter [texts] to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
19 Jul 2007, 6:56 am
[JURIST] Former Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] filed a lawsuit Thursday against Thailand's Assets Examination Committee (AEC) [Wikipedia backgrounder] for its seizure of Thaksin's family assets [JURIST report], demanding that the AEC terminate its freeze of approximately $2.1 billion in assets and seeking an additional $1.7 billion in compensation. [read post]
2 Sep 2007, 9:46 am
[JURIST] Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed [party profile; JURIST news archive] has been charged with another count of corruption relating to a bribe supposedly taken from a Bangladesh power company, Bangladesh police announced Sunday. [read post]
