Articles

E.g., 2026-09
Title Abstract Author Volume Issue Date Publishedsort ascending Geographic Identifier Subject Areas
U.S. Names More Guant?namo Detainees for Trial, Changes Rules, and Allows First Attorney Meeting for Hamdi On February 6, 2004, the Pentagon named two more Guant?namo detainees as ready for trial before military tribunals. On February 24, it issued criminal charges against them. The day before it... Bruce Zagaris 20 4 2004-04-01 United States, Cuba, Afghanistan Human Rights, Law of War, National Security, Terrorism, Prisoner Rights
U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case of US Citizen Detained under Wartime Powers On February 20 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it had taken certiorari on the case of Rumsfeld v. Padilla, the case of the U.S. citizen detained in June 2002 as an enemy combatant on suspicion... Bruce Zagaris 20 4 2004-04-01 United States, Cuba, Afghanistan Human Rights, Law of War, Terrorism
American Civil Liberties Union Files Complaint with UN Over 9/11 Detentions On January 27, 2004, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a complaint to a United Nations working group concerning the detention of more than a dozen Arab and Muslim men held by the US... Bruce Zagaris 20 4 2004-04-01 United States, Afghanistan Human Rights, Terrorism, Torture
Nigerian Commission Prosecutes 6 Nigerians for Brazilian Bank Scam On February 4, 2006, Chairman of the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) announced the start in Abuja, Nigeria the prosecution of six Nigerians involved in a $242 million advance... Bruce Zagaris 20 4 2004-04-01 Brazil, Nigeria Fraud
Asian-Pacific Countries Commit to Counter-Terrorism Enforcement as Indonesia Presses U.S. For Access to Hambali On February 5, 2004, at the end of a two-day conference ministers from 33 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries committed to strengthening the ?political momentum? for counter-... Bruce Zagaris 20 4 2004-04-01 Asia Terrorism
United Nations and Guatemala Form Unit to Prosecute Attacks against Human Rights Groups On January 7, 2004, the Government of Guatemala and the United Nations signed an agreement to establish a Commission for the Investigation of Illegal Groups and Clandestine Security Organizations in... Bruce Zagaris 20 4 2004-04-01 Guatemala Human Rights, United Nations, Organized Crime
French Investigate Halliburton & Technip Energy Payments in Nigeria In October 2003, French anti-corruption judge Renaud van Ruymbeke started the first investigation into potential violations of French laws to implement the OECD Convention on Combatting Bribery of... Bruce Zagaris 20 4 2004-04-01 United States, France, Nigeria Corruption, Asset Forfeiture
Guatemala Ex-President Leaves Country After Losing Immunity On February 18, 2004, Guatemala?s highest court removed immunity from Alfonso Portillo, the president of Guatemala until January 2004, as investigation for corruption continues. In particular,... Bruce Zagaris 20 4 2004-04-01 United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama Money Laundering, Corruption, Extradition, Immunity, Jurisdiction
European Parliament Adopts Resolution on a Comprehensive EU Policy Against Corruption On December 4, 2003, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on a Comprehensive EU Policy Against Corruption, providing for a legislative framework at a Community and international level,... Bruce Zagaris 20 4 2004-04-01 Europe Corruption, European Union, Economic Integration
Irish Minister Explains Successful Informal Justice and Home Affairs Council On January 23, 2004, Mr. Michael McDowell, T.D., Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and president of the Justice and Home Affairs Council, reported on the Informal Council meeting.... Bruce Zagaris 20 4 2004-04-01 Europe, Ireland Mutual Legal Assistance, Economic Integration
High Level Political Figures Face War Crimes in International Tribunals Slobodan Milosevic has succeeded in frustrating the ICTY again. On February 5, 2004, Trial Chamber III issued an Order scheduling ?the remainder of the Prosecution case to be completed in five... Bruce Zagaris 20 4 2004-04-01 Balkans Human Rights, War Crimes, Genocide
U.S. Indicts Transnational Child Pornography and Money Laundering Ring On January16, 2004, a grand jury indictment was brought in the United States District for the District of New Jersey against four individuals and a credit card processing company, all located in... Bruce Zagaris 22 3 2004-03-01 United States Money Laundering, Sex Crimes
Maryland Trafficking Prosecuting Has Many International Law Implications On January 8, 2004, U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr. sentenced Barbara Coleman-Blackwell, 33, to five years and three months in federal prison for bringing a Ghanaian woman to the United... Bruce Zagaris 20 3 2004-03-01 United States Human Trafficking
Brazil Takes New Action Against Money Laundering At the start of January 2004, the Brazilian government has resolved to adopt 13 measures to fight money laundering. The implementation of such measures will be undertaken by the recently created... Jorge Nemr 20 3 2004-03-01 Brazil Money Laundering
Some Aspects of Cross-Border Debt-Recovery in the Former Soviet Union International debt recovery is aimed towards the recovery of debts regardless of locations of debts and debtors. It is still widely presumed in the West that the legal remedies for recovery of... Timur Sinuraya and Svetlana Tulaykova 20 3 2004-03-01 Russia Asset Forfeiture
Miami Lawyer Convicted of International Laundering of Drug Proceeds On December 22, 2003, after a three-week trial before United States District Court Judge Patricia A. Seitz, a jury convicted Miami criminal defense attorney Juan Carlos Elso on two counts of... Bruce Zagaris 20 3 2004-03-01 United States Money Laundering, Drugs & Trafficking
DEA Operation Streamline Catches 11 in Colombian-U.S. Heroin Ring On December 22, 2003, after a three-week trial before United States District Court Judge Patricia A. Seitz, a jury convicted Miami criminal defense attorney Juan Carlos Elso on two counts of... Bruce Zagaris 20 3 2004-03-01 United States, Colombia Drugs & Trafficking
U.S. Attorney Issues New Indictment against Cali Cartel and U.S. Requests Extradition On January 16, 2004, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials announced a massive international effort to close an international heroin trafficking operation between Cali, Colombia and the U.S... Bruce Zagaris 20 3 2004-03-01 United States, Colombia Drugs & Trafficking, Organized Crime
Panama Extradites Alleged Colombia Drug Lord to the U.S. On January 14, 2004, Panamanian authorities extradited Arcangel de Jesus Henao Montoya, an alleged Colombian drug lord and one of its most suspected cocaine traffickers to the U.S. on charges of... Bruce Zagaris 20 3 2004-03-01 United States, Colombia, Panama Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking, Organized Crime
EU Progresses on European Arrest Warrant The Special Court was authorized by the Security Council and then elaborated in a formal agreement between the U.N. and the Sierra Leone Government. It has an international prosecutor. The Sierra... Bruce Zagaris 20 3 2004-03-01 Europe Extradition, European Union, Mutual Legal Assistance

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