JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Robert P. Barnidge, Jr. of the Jindal Global Law School says that Pakistan has failed to comply with its counterterrorism obligations under international law and that this should be kept in mind when assessing the US’ use of force in Pakistan…
The US Department of Justice filed papers Wednesday dropping opposition to the release of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ibrahim Idris . The DOJ will not object to a judge issuing a release for Idris who has severe mental and physical illnesses and whose lawyers argue is not fit to remain in Guantanamo. Idris served as both [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday held that the International Trade Commission (ITC) erred in finding that Motorola Mobility, a branch of Google did not infringe a Microsoft graphical interface patent. Microsoft originally filed a complaint in 2010 with the ITC against Motorola. Microsoft alleged that Motorola had violated section [...]
Amnesty International released a report on Wednesday accusing Turkish authorities of committing human rights violations during the government’s attempt to quell protests in Gezi Park in Istanbul this summer. According to the advocacy group, the authorities repeatedly showed total intolerance for any form of protest, however passive. Witness testimony and photographic evidence provide documentation of [...]
The UK spy agency GCHQ is facing a legal challenge in the European Human Rights Court (ECHR) to its online surveillance programs. Claims filed in the ECHR on Thursday allege that the massive programs, which are able to read the content of e-mails and social media messages, have breached the privacy of tens of millions [...]
The government of Pakistan decided on Thursday not to reinstate the death penalty. There had been a moratorium on the death penalty since 2008, but the ban ended on June 30. More than 8,000 prisoners are on death row, and two militants were scheduled to be executed in August. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had planned [...]
California Governor Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed into law a bill that prohibits state employees and agencies, as well as law enforcement and the California National Guard, from providing support for the indefinite detention of a person within California. Specifically, the law states that those individuals or bodies shall not participate in any investigation or [...]
Malaysia’s proposed amendments to the Prevention of Crime Act 1959 , which would reinstate detention without trial for certain individuals with criminal histories, are a “huge step backwards,” Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday. HRW said that the amendments would allow detention for up to two years without trial if authorities find that the person [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday began a campaign for the tens of thousands of political activists that they claim are being detained in Syria for their peaceful activity. “Lost in Syria’s Black Hole” tells the story of Syrian individuals who have been detained since the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011. Each [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a district court ruling that interpreted a settlement agreement between BP and the class of parties injured in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in a way that permitted recovery for artificial and inflated claims. The appeals court applied fundamental accounting principles in its [...]
