The UN Security Council on Friday rejected a resolution to defer the International Criminal Court (ICC) trials of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto . Seven members of the council voted in favor of delaying the trials for one year so that the Kenyan leaders, who are charged with crimes against humanity, [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists Mary Ellen Signorille and Kate T. Robinson of AARP Foundation Litigation discuss the implications of the US Supreme Court’s future ruling in Heimeshoff v. Hartford Life Insurance…
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied the petition for certiorari in a case challenging the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) April order requiring Verizon to turn over data to the National Security Agency (NSA) including US telephone calls and Internet exchanges. The case, brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) questioned whether the [...]
Pakistan officials on Monday filed a request with the nation’s Supreme Court , asking the court to start treason proceedings against former president Pervez Musharraf . The government contends that Musharraf committed treason by suspending the constitution and imposed emergency rule in 2007. Musharraf was ousted from power in 2008 and has faced several criminal [...]
A Russian court on Monday refused to release one of 30 activists for Greenpeace International who were detained in September while trying to board an oil rig. Russian authorities arrested the Greenpeace activists in September for attempting to scale an oil platform owned by a Russian energy company and charged the activists with hoolaginsim . [...]
The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Friday announced that media entities and other would-be observers will not be allowed to sit in on the first session of the Periodic Review Board (PRB), a parole-style hearing process for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay . In 2011 US President Barack Obama issued an executive order establishing [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday urged Nepalese authorities to conclude the forthcoming Constituent Assembly elections peacefully with a view toward drafting a new constitution. Political and social discord have plagued Nepal since the nation’s 2006 civil war abolished the monarchy. The first Constituent Assembly failed in its efforts to draft a new constitution before [...]
The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday adopted an amendment to the Law for the Prevention of Infiltration , permitting the state to detain undocumented immigrants for up to one year. The amendment is a direct response to an earlier ruling of the Supreme Court of Israel holding that the 2012 amendment to the Law for the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Neil H. Buchanan, of The George Washington University School of Law, says that Congressional failure to properly address the debt ceiling puts the Executive in an impossible situation with grave risks …
UK Prime Minister David Cameron demanded that the Sri Lankan government conduct its own investigation into allegations of war crimes committed during the 26-year civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) . Cameron emphasized the need for reconciliation and justice. He also reiterated the March 2014 deadline put forward by UN High [...]
