http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/ JURIST's weblog of legal news and resources worth thinking about, by Professor Bernard Hibbitts and law students at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. 2008-05-09T16:06:00-04:00 en-US http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/pakistan-leaders-fail-to-agree-on.php [JURIST] Talks between the leaders of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) [party websites] in London Friday failed to produce an agreement on a draft resolution for reinstating judges ousted by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf last year, but party 2008-05-09T16:06:00-04:00 2008-05-09T16:06:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/eu-parliament-head-slams-possible-court.php [JURIST] European Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering [official website] Thursday slammed a bid by Chief Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya [official profile, in Turkish] to have the country's ruling Islamic Justice and Development Party (AKP) [party website, in Turkish] legally dissolved 2008-05-09T14:16:00-04:00 2008-05-09T16:06:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/myanmar-junta-urges-citizens-to-approve.php [JURIST] Myanmar's ruling junta Friday urged the country's citizens to approve the military-backed draft constitution in an upcoming Saturday national referendum [JURIST news archives] that the government has refused to reschedule despite a devastating cyclone last week that may have left up to 2008-05-09T12:07:00-04:00 2008-05-09T16:06:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/some-guantanamo-detainees-could-pose.php [JURIST] US Defense Secretary Robert Gates [official profile] said Thursday that a number of current Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees would pose a new threat to the US if they were returned to their home countries. Of the 500 inmates who have been released from the detention 2008-05-09T12:07:00-04:00 2008-05-09T16:06:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/nuclear-powers-say-iran-threatening.php [JURIST] The world's five major nuclear powers - Britain, China, France, Russia, and the US - cited Iran's uranium enrichment program as a major threat to the goals of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) [PDF text; JURIST news archive] in a joint statement [PDF text] issued Thursday at the 2008-05-09T10:33:00-04:00 2008-05-09T16:06:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/convicted-bosnian-serb-war-criminal.php [JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] announced Thursday that Vidoje Blagojevic [ICTY case backgrounder, PDF] has requested a new trial. Blagojevic, former commander of the Bratunac Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, claims that he had 2008-05-09T09:47:00-04:00 2008-05-09T16:06:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/us-military-judge-refuses-to-set-trial.php [JURIST] US military judge Col. Peter Brownback again refused to set a trial date for Canadian-born Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] at a pre-trial hearing Thursday, threatening to suspend military commission proceedings against the Guantanamo detainee until the government submits 2008-05-09T09:04:00-04:00 2008-05-09T16:06:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/egypt-court-fines-newspaper-editor-for.php [JURIST] An Egyptian court Thursday ordered the editor of independent newspaper al-Badeel to pay a $2,000 fine for publishing an article about labor disputes in the state-owned Middle East News Agency [media website, in Arabic]. Mohammed Sayyed was convicted of libel, and also ordered to pay 2008-05-08T17:03:00-04:00 2008-05-09T16:06:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/australian-military-investigating.php [JURIST] The Australian Defence Force [official website] is investigating claims by four Taliban members detained following the death of an Australian soldier in Afghanistan that they were mistreated during their time in custody, Australian media reported Thursday. The allegations were reported by 2008-05-08T16:32:00-04:00 2008-05-09T16:06:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/05/vietnam-to-prosecute-anti-communist.php [JURIST] Vietnam will prosecute two anti-Communist activists on "terrorism" charges for distributing literature critical of the government, a government spokesperson said Thursday. The men are members of US-based rights group Viet Tan [advocacy website, in Vietnamese], which has denied that it 2008-05-08T15:48:00-04:00 2008-05-09T16:06:00-04:00