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...issue before the court on Tuesday and Wednesday wasn?t the fate of Duch?s former prisoners, but his own detention without trial by the Cambodian military court, which arrested him in 1999, long before the tribunal took custody of him on July 31 and charged him with crimes against humanity and war crimes. Duch's two lawyers argued that their client's rights had been so violated by his more than eight years of incarceration that he should be released, or at least placed under house arrest, ahead of his trial - or compensated with a reduced sentence if found...
...Regardless, the new-style pro-democracy groups have had difficulty making even the smallest political change inside Vietnam. Association with any overseas group - Hanoi still classifies most as terrorist organizations - is grounds for arrest; several of the Vietnamese activists put on trial this year had their links to overseas groups like Viet Tan used as evidence against them. "They are on the right side, advocating non-violent political change, but are they doing good?" asks Carl Thayer, a veteran Vietnam analyst who lectures at Australia's National Defence University. "Any action like that provokes repression. The key leaders...
Recognizing a courageous display of commitment to law and democracy amidst the ongoing turmoil in Pakistan, the Harvard Law School (HLS) Association announced on Tuesday that it would award Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry the Harvard Law School Medal of Freedom. Chaudhry is currently being held under house arrest in Pakistan, so for the time being, he will not be able to travel to Cambridge to receive the award, HLS’s highest honor. The Chief Justice was detained after he convened the Pakistani Supreme Court to declare the national state of emergency imposed by President Pervez Musharraf null...
...There can be no fair and free elections under the emergency; there can be no fair and free elections when the chief of army staff is also President; there can be no fair and free election under the present Election Commission," Bhutto told reporters after being freed from house arrest on Thursday. She and other opposition leaders are considering boycotting the election altogether...
...emergency policies—suspending the Pakistani constitution, censoring independent media outlets, and ruling through the force of the military—are intended to combat terrorism and help the country survive. Musharraf has likened himself to Abraham Lincoln and said that Chaudhry has been placed under house arrest for encouraging terrorism and engaging in corrupt practices...