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Nearly 3000 Thugs Arrested in Ongoing National Police Sting
“The number of [thugs] arrested since Saturday was 2990, but only 476 will face criminal charges while 2514 will be given guidance,” National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Saud Usman Nasution said in Jakarta on Monday. Under the book of criminal law
Updated: 03/13/2012 12:05A

Home > International Law > Catching Warlords via Viral Videos: A Film About
In this column, I will examine both the criticisms and the praise of the video, and discuss why, under certain circumstances, the use of viral videos can be an innovative and valuable approach to international criminal justice.
Updated: 03/13/2012 12:03A

Sex crime scandal riles officials
By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer Six weeks after the scandal broke at Miramonte Elementary, three Los Angeles Unified board members called Monday for changes in state laws and district policies to make it easier to fire employees in cases of sexual
Updated: 03/12/2012 11:36P

Anti-Corruption Programme Soon To Be Debated By Hungarian Government
The anti-corruption programme points significantly beyond the actions taken in the past two decades to combat corruption as it does not merely emphasise the implementation of measures under criminal law but also attributes a major role to the
Updated: 03/12/2012 11:36P

Drone strike victim's kin to sue Hague in UK court
Lawyers will claim that civilian intelligence officers who pass on intelligence to the US are not “lawful combatants”, therefore cannot claim immunity from criminal law and could be liable as “secondary parties to murder”. They will also argue that the
Updated: 03/12/2012 11:04P

Shield law's impact unclear
Texas is one of 40 states with a shield law. The Texas law has criminal and civil sections. In the criminal law section, a journalist can protect a source's identity unless the reporter witnessed a felony or received a confession to a felony or there
Updated: 03/12/2012 11:00P

Exonerated Man Now Helps Others
He is set to announce this week the Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation for Justice, a nonprofit he established to work on cases in the New York City area. Jeffrey Deskovic created his own group to fight wrongful convictions. Active in criminal-justice reform
Updated: 03/12/2012 10:56P

Family to sue official over Pakistan drone strike
Lawyers will claim that civilian intelligence officers who pass on intelligence to the US are not "lawful combatants", therefore cannot claim immunity from criminal law and could be liable as "secondary parties to murder". They will also argue that the
Updated: 03/12/2012 10:53P

Winnipeg Sun readers
(NICOLE DUBE/Winnipeg Sun) I'm fairly certain the officer who had to charge Ed Raflant with assault did so only because the Criminal Code — not the RCMP — says that's what he had to do. There's even a good chance the police officer sympathized with
Updated: 03/12/2012 10:47P

New Orleans to see influx of federal officers to fight crime surge
By Brendan McCarthy, The Times-Picayune A few dozen federal law enforcement agents will be deployed to New Orleans' streets in the coming weeks to help the city's police department crack down on violent crime. Federal and local officials are still
Updated: 03/12/2012 09:54P