Stories about Law from September, 2006
Bahamas: Extradition and the ugly American
Bahamian Sir Arthur Foulkes discusses the “widely-circulated – and up to now not denied — report” of irregularities in cabinet's handling of the extradition of a Bahamian wanted in the US on drug-related charges, and dismisses one “ugly American's” views on the matter.
Russia: Kondopoga Riots
Alex(ei) of The Russian Dilettante's Weblog analyzes the situation in the Karelian town of Kondopoga.
Brazil: Blog Condemned for Anonymous Comment
“Biscoito Fino e a Massa” details the case of ‘Imprensa Marrom‘, a blog sued for an anonymous comment made in a six month old post. The strange case is getting attention and frightening Brazilian bloggers who are disabling their comments area . Bloggers consider this decision a dangerous precedent in...
Jamaica: Helping deportees
A newspaper report about a group devoted to helping convicted criminals who are deported back to Jamaica inspires Francis Wade to try and get involved.
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Srebrenica Perpetrators
Srebrenica Genocide Blog begins to repost “a list of over 800 Bosnian Serbs who allegedly participated in the Srebrenica massacre in July 1995, and are still believed to be in positions of power.”
Trinidad & Tobago: Youth, alcohol, cigarettes
The Manicou applauds a new Drug Abuse Prevention policy proposed by the Trinidad & Tobago Ministry of Education aimed at making all schools smoke and drug free, but wonders what effect this could have on the fundraising parties held on the premises of certain schools
China: What's up with the web
The newly-born portal for progressive bloggers Bullog was booted from its host server in Inner Mongolia late last month, and relocating to Beijing hasn't seemed to help as the site—as well as its backup home at niubo.org—has been unaccesible for the last few days. None of this has slowed down...
Bangladesh blog buzz
The latest opinions and views from the Bangladeshi blogs including refugees, gender equity, energy, human rights, politics, international relations, culture and cyber society etc. issues:
Barbados: Financial test case
Barbados is the venue for a court case testing a new law permitting minority shareholders in a corporation the power to have a court review of the company's activities, reports Barbados Free Press.
Russia: Deripaska and Pichugin
Charlie Ganske of Russia Blog writes about Oleg Deripaska and the world's largest aluminum producer, and about the case of Aleksei Pichugin, former chief of security for Yukos.
Belarus: News Roundup
Most recent topics covered by TOL's Belarus Blog include: short-wave radio and “independent information” in Belarus; a proposed linguistic “upgrade” and other threats to the Belarusian language; scandals surrounding scholarship programs for persecuted students; Russian criticism of the Belarusian election law.
China: Lists
Blogger's block, we all get it sometimes. Ruthless readers, our editors, don't have time for excuses. So what's a blogger to do? Lists! Here are few from the last few days of the Chinese blogsphere, ordered with a certain amount of thematic continuity:
Bolivia: MIR & MBL Political Parties Out
Miguel Centallas gives more background information on the decision by the National Electoral Court to rescind legal status of several national & regional parties.
Argentina: Creative Commons
Ariel Vercelli (ES) says that El Clarín (ES) has translated an article about iSummit in Rio de Janeiro, which was originally published by the New York Times.