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. 2009-07-03T11:56:00-04:00 en-US http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/07/british-embassy-staff-facing-iran-trial.php [JURIST] Iranian employees at the British Embassy in Iran [official website] will face trial over accusations they contributed to the political protests that followed Iran's recent disputed presidential election [BBC backgrounder] according to statements [Bloomberg report] made Friday by Ayatollah 2009-07-03T11:56:00-04:00 2009-07-03T11:56:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/07/liberia-truth-commission-urges-war.php [JURIST] Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) [official website] urged Thursday that several one-time military and political leaders be prosecuted in a special Liberian court for war crimes. Those named include ex-president Charles Taylor [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], now on 2009-07-03T09:56:00-04:00 2009-07-03T11:56:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/07/israel-hamas-committed-gaza-war-crimes.php [JURIST] Both Hamas and Israeli forces committed war crimes [news release] during fighting in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009, according to Amnesty International (AI). A report [text, PDF] issued by Amnesty Thursday alleges that Israeli attacks killed 1,400 Palestinians, including 300 2009-07-03T07:22:00-04:00 2009-07-03T11:56:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/07/italy-senate-passes-anti-illegal.php [JURIST] Italy’s Senate [official website, in Italian] voted 157-124 Thursday to pass a controversial law making illegal immigration a crime [materials, in Italian], punishable by a fine of between 5,000 and 10,000 euros. The law also increases from two months to six [AKI report] the amount of 2009-07-03T02:12:00-04:00 2009-07-03T11:56:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/07/india-court-declares-anti-sodomy-law.php [JURIST] The Delhi High Court [official website] on Thursday decriminalized homosexual conduct [judgment, PDF] by declaring India's anti-sodomy law unconstitutional. In a petition originally filed and rejected [JURIST report] by the court in 2004, the Naz Foundation [advocacy website] challenged 2009-07-02T14:58:00-04:00 2009-07-03T11:56:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/07/ex-guantanamo-detainee-civilian-trial.php [JURIST] A federal judge on Thursday set a trial date for terrorism suspect and former Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Ahmed Ghailani [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news archive] of September 13, 2010. Ghailani, the first Guantanamo detainee to be transferred [JURIST report] to 2009-07-02T14:49:00-04:00 2009-07-03T11:56:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/07/uk-court-recognizes-pre-nuptial.php [JURIST] A British appellate court on Thursday recognized [judgment, PDF] a pre-nuptial agreement for the first time in the UK, where they have been generally disregarded by courts hearing divorce proceedings. The UK Court of Appeal of England and Wales [official website] overturned a lower court 2009-07-02T13:31:00-04:00 2009-07-03T11:56:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/07/germany-leaders-agree-to-set-aside-nazi.php [JURIST] The political parties that make up Germany's coalition government agreed Wednesday on a proposal to set aside all Nazi-era treason verdicts. The Socialist Democrats (SPD) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) [party websites, in German] of Chancellor Angela Merkel [official profile] 2009-07-02T11:55:00-04:00 2009-07-03T11:56:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/07/israel-high-court-orders-stronger.php [JURIST] The Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) [official websites] to refile indictments on more serious charges against a soldier and an officer accused of shooting a blindfolded prisoner with a rubber bullet. Human rights groups B'Tselem, the Association 2009-07-02T08:49:00-04:00 2009-07-03T11:56:00-04:00 http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/07/iran-bars-publishing-of-opposition.php [JURIST] The Iranian government on Wednesday prevented the publishing [press release, in Persian] of the opposition Etemad-e-Melli [media website, in Persian] newspaper in its latest move to quash anti-government reporting in the country. International journalists in the country have also been 2009-07-02T07:14:00-04:00 2009-07-03T11:56:00-04:00