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17 Feb 2004, 4:30 am
A federal prosecutor in Detroit has launched a rare whistleblower lawsuit against Attorney General John Ashcroft, saying that the US Department of Justice interfered in a recent prosecution, displayed "gross mismanagement" of the war on terror, and then retaliated against him when he brought his concerns to the attention of a Senate committee. [read post]
3 Oct 2006, 12:17 am
[JURIST] Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe [official website; BBC profile] told opposition leaders in the lower house of Parliament Tuesday that while he intends to change the role of the country's military in the Japanese constitution [text], he does not want to make such revisions [JURIST report] in order to go to war abroad. [read post]
18 Sep 2011, 7:50 am
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Is Pakistan At War With The United States? [read post]
18 Mar 2005, 7:22 am
Mladic is accused of atrocities and genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, and Serbia has been accused by the international community of harboring the former wartime [read post]
16 Sep 2006, 7:08 am
Ehren Watada [advocacy website; Wikipedia profile] based on a speech [text and video] he gave in August to Veterans for Peace [advocacy website] in which Watada advocated that "to stop an illegal and unjust war, soldiers can choose to stop fighting it. [read post]
21 Apr 2010, 7:22 am
[JURIST] A federal court in Argentina on Tuesday sentenced [verdict, PDF, in Spanish; CIJ report, in Spanish] former president and military general Reynaldo Bignone [JURIST news archive] to 25 years in prison for human rights abuses during the 1976-83 "Dirty War" [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
9 Nov 2007, 2:43 am
[JURIST] US District Judge Benjamin Settle issued a preliminary injunction [order, PDF] Thursday against holding a second court-martial for Iraq war objector 1st Lt. [read post]
24 Jul 2009, 4:38 am
From 1976 to 1983, a period known as the "Dirty War" [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news archive], an estimated 20,000-30,000 people were forcibly [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 6:55 am
"Warring sides in same-sex marriage debate look to court date": Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, "The California Supreme Court scheduled a March 4 hearing Wednesday for the long-awaited clash between gay-rights advocates, the state and religious conservatives over the constitutionality of banning same-sex marriage. [read post]
19 May 2004, 2:03 pm
The UN special human rights envoy for the Occupied Territories called the ongoing Israeli military strikes against a Gaza refugee camp "war crimes" in an official statement Wednesday. [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 1:00 pm
[JURIST] Indictments for the leaders of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) [MIPT backgrounder; JURIST news archive] still remain in effect despite a recent agreement between the LRA and the Ugandan government to establish a national war crimes court [JURIST report], the International Criminal Court [official website] prosecutor's office said Wednesday. [read post]
6 Apr 2009, 1:17 am
(D-MI) [official website] has released a final version of a report [text; PDF] reiterating his allegations that the Bush administration engaged in numerous abuses during the "war on terror" and calling on Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile; JURIST news archive] to appoint a special prosecutor to [read post]
2 Dec 2020, 7:50 am
“Kansas gets a new Supreme Court justice, and probably a new front in the abortion war”: Dion Lefler of The Wichita Eagle has an article that begins, “Gov. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 1:52 am
Casey' (Pretty Much) Settled the Abortion Wars is a new article by Neal Devins, William & Mary Law School. [read post]
27 Mar 2008, 9:21 am
[JURIST] EU and NATO forces on Thursday raided the homes of family members of wanted Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic [BBC profile; ICTY indictment], looking for information on Karadzic's location. [read post]
22 Jun 2005, 3:05 pm
[JURIST] Germany's Federal Administrative Court [official website in German; Wikipedia entry] ruled Wednesday that a German army officer who refused to follow orders because he thought they would aid the US-led war in Iraq could not be forced to comply with orders that ran counter to his conscience. [read post]
22 Jun 2006, 3:25 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] said Wednesday that insurgents in Iraq have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law and pointed to the kidnapping of two US soldiers last week as another example of the war crimes that are committed in Iraq. [read post]
8 Nov 2006, 6:47 am
[JURIST] A panel of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] ordered prosecutors Wednesday to drop five of the 14 charges against Vojislav Seselj [BBC profile; ICTY case backgrounder], ruling that the dropped "crimes against humanity" charges were duplicates of "war crimes" charges also in the indictment [PDF text]. [read post]
20 May 2008, 4:44 pm
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] Tuesday indicted [PDF text] a Kosovar journalist on contempt of court charges for allegedly revealing the identity of a witness in the war crimes trial of former Kosovar Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj [TrialWatch profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
6 May 2024, 6:24 am
In March, the Vernon County Republican Committee filed what is known as a writ… Continue reading The post “In this Missouri county, Republicans go to ‘war’ over who can run as a Republican” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
