Guantanamo detainee charged with USS Cole bombing- June 30, 2008 JURIST US Department of Defense official website prosecutors announced Monday they had filed charges press release related to the 2000 al Qaeda attack US DOD inquiry report; JURIST news archive on the USS Cole official website against Guantanamo Bay detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri Globalsecurity backgrounder. Al-Nashiri, a Saudi national, is charged with terrorism, attempted murder,http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/06/guantanamo-detainee-charged-with-uss.php US should expedite Guantanamo closure: European investigator- June 30, 2008 JURIST The United States should set a concrete deadline for closure of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay JURIST news archive, according to a Monday report PDF text by an investigator from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCEPA) official website. OSCEPA's special Guantanamo envoy Anne-Marie Lizin personal website, in French said thathttp://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/06/us-should-expedite-guantanamo-closure.php Colombia president calls for election referendum after court orders legal inquiry- June 30, 2008 JURIST Colombian President Alvaro Uribe official profile, in Spanish; BBC profile Monday moved forward with plans for a national referendum on the country's 2006 presidential election. Last week, the Colombian High Court official backgrounder ruled AP report that a legal inquiry should be held into the election after it found that a legislator had been bribed to help push constitutionalhttp://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/06/colombia-president-calls-for-election.php Pakistan must change constitution to reinstate judges: justice minister- June 30, 2008 JURIST The Pakistani constitution must be amended in order to reinstate the judges who were ousted last year by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf official profile; JURIST news archive, Pakistani Law and Justice Minister Farooq H. Naik said Sunday. He said that while the constitution provides for the appointment of judges, it does not speak to the reinstatement of ousted judges. Underhttp://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/06/pakistan-must-change-constitution-to.php Five Iraq appeals court judges survive assassination attempts- June 30, 2008 JURIST Unknown bombers made unsuccessful assassination attempts on the lives of five Iraqi appeals court judges Monday. The five judges - Ali al-Alaq, Suleiman Abdullah, Ghanim Janab, Alaa al-Timimi, and Hassan Fouad - are all members of the al-Rasafa Court of Appeal in eastern Baghdad. While all five were unharmed in the separate attacks,the wife of Ali al-Alaq and family members of Suleimanhttp://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/06/five-iraq-appeals-court-judges-survive.php Germany police torture threats did not violate right to fair trial: ECHR- June 30, 2008 JURIST A German man's right to a fair trial was not violated by police torture threats, the European Court of Human Rights official website ruled text; press release Monday. In 2003, Magnus Gaefgen was convicted of kidnapping and killing a six-year-old child after German police threatened Gaefgen with torture to get him to reveal the location of the body. Gaefgen argued that the threatshttp://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/06/germany-police-torture-threats-did-not.php Lawyer for ex-Thailand PM jailed for bribery attempt- June 30, 2008 JURIST Thana Tansiri, a lawyer for former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive, began serving a six-month prison sentence Monday for his role in an attempt to bribe officials Nation report overseeing a corruption case against Thaksin. Thana is one of three lawyers sentenced Nation report last week for delivering a paper bag containing $60,000 to ahttp://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/06/lawyer-for-ex-thailand-pm-jailed-for.php Iran court sentences man to death for spying for Israel- June 30, 2008 JURIST Iran's Revolutionary Court sentenced an Iranian electronics salesman to death Monday after convicting him of espionage, according to a state media report FNA report. Ali Ashtari, who was arrested last year, was charged with using his sales connections in the military to pass information on Iran's Atomic Energy Organization official website, in Persian to Israeli intelligence agents.http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/06/iran-court-sentences-man-to-death-for.php Dutch judiciary will not prosecute politician for anti-Islam statements- June 30, 2008 JURIST The Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM) official website, English version will not prosecute politician Geert Wilders personal website, in Dutch for his video and printed statements against the Quran and Islam because the statements are not punishable under anti-discrimination laws OM statement. Wilders, who is an official with the right-wing People's Party for Freedom andhttp://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/06/dutch-judiciary-will-not-prosecute.php Malaysia: Anwar files suit against accuser after leaving Turkish embassy- June 30, 2008 JURIST Malaysian opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim BBC profile; JURIST news archive filed a lawsuitThe Star report on Monday against aformer aide who had accused him of sodomy JURIST report on Saturday.In the lawsuit, Anwar said that the aide's allegations against him were baseless and politically motivated. Also on Monday, Anwar left the Turkish Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, where hehttp://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/06/malaysia-anwar-files-suit-against.php |