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4 Feb 2007, 7:23 am
[JURIST] Australian Prime Minister John Howard [official website] spoke out Sunday in support of the Pentagon's decision to recharge 31-year-old David Hicks [JURIST news archive], the single Australian terror suspect at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], notwithstanding US inclusion of a criminal count - providing material support to terrorists - that was only put into law four months ago. [read post]
8 May 2007, 4:34 am
[JURIST] The US may attempt to force the establishment of a UN tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news archive], US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told [AA report, in Arabic] Al Arabiya television Monday. [read post]
30 Jul 2007, 11:51 am
[JURIST] The Bangladeshi High Court [official backgrounder] suspended the extortion trial [JURIST report] of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed [party profile] Monday after receiving a motion from Hasina's lawyers challenging the legality of her detention under emergency laws [JURIST report]. [read post]
13 Jan 2008, 2:21 am
[JURIST] Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina [party profile; JURIST news archive] was formally charged with extortion in Dhaka on Sunday. [read post]
4 Feb 2010, 9:06 am by Daniel Makosky
[JURIST] The Italian Chamber of Deputies [official website, in Italian] approved a bill [materials, in Italian] Wednesday that would allow cabinet ministers, including Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], to postpone criminal proceedings against them on the grounds that they would interfere with official duties. [read post]
5 Apr 2010, 6:44 am by Dwyer Arce
The Internal Security Operations Command, under the direction of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva [official profile], applied for an injunction [Bangkok Post report] that would have ordered the protest organizers to lead the group out of the area [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 9:00 am
The investigatory commission will operate under the office of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan [official website, in Turkish; BBC profile] and will prepare a report to be presented to the UN panel established earlier this month [JURIST... [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 12:24 pm by Maureen Cosgrove
[JURIST] An Egyptian court on Tuesday convicted former prime minister Ahmed Nazif and two Cabinet officials of corruption and sentenced them to various prison terms. [read post]
29 Jan 2012, 11:18 am by Julia Zebley
Acting under the orders of Prime Minister and Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa [official profile], the Cabinet of Bahrain [official website, in Arabic] will soon amend the penal code to include a 15-year prison sentence for "instigators and implementers" of physical assault against police officers. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 6:26 am by Sarah Posner
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Pakistan [official website] charged Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] with contempt of court Monday for disobeying a court order to open corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari [official website]. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 6:37 am by Michael Haggerson
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta [BBC profile] promised that his country would work quickly to address the EC's... [read post]
9 Mar 2007, 2:03 pm
Journal: Music's New Gatekeeper: "Apple has jettisoned some of the conventions of traditional music retailing -- notably, the practice of selling prime promotional spots to recording companies willing to pay for better visibility for their acts. [read post]
17 Oct 2003, 1:05 am
The Times of London reports that Prime Minister Tony Blair has rejected the possibility of a referendum on the proposed European Union Constitution.... [read post]
21 Jan 2006, 7:03 am
[JURIST] Syrian President Bashar al-Assad [BBC profile] on Saturday indicated he plans to reject a second interview request from UN investigators running the probe into the bus bombing that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
17 Nov 2006, 3:24 am
[JURIST] Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende [official profile] said Friday that the government would investigate allegations that Netherlands military personnel abused Iraqi prisoners in 2003 by subjecting them to sleep deprivation, high-pitched noises and bright lights. [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 12:56 pm
[JURIST] British Prime Minister Tony Blair intervened Friday in a renewed furor over criminal sentencing [JURIST report] that broke out after a judge cited the Home Secretary's recent urgings [JURIST report] to keep non-dangerous offenders out of overcrowded prisons [BBC backgrounder; Guardian Q&A] in suspending the sentence of a man who pleaded guilty to downloading child pornography. [read post]
25 Sep 2007, 7:20 am
[JURIST] The Thai Supreme Court for Political Appointees suspended proceedings Tuesday against former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] until he and his wife, Pojamarn, are arrested and brought into court for proceedings. [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 11:19 am
Previous attempts to vote on the treaty had ended in walkouts by opposition MPs in protest over a domestic media reform law endorsed by Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, but one of [read post]