UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated Monday that UN inspectors have confirmed that “chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale” in the suburbs of Damascus on August 21, causing numerous civilian casualties in violation of international law. A report issued by chief weapons inspector Ake Sellstrom , and released by Ban earlier Monday, provides [...]
The chairman of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic , Paulo Sergio Pinheiro stated Monday that the UN war crimes panel is investigating 14 suspected chemical attacks in Syria. A report issued by chief weapons inspector Ake Sellstrom has found clear and convincing evidence of the use of sarin gas [...]
The Supreme Court of Israel on Monday invalidated the 2012 amendment to the Law for the Prevention of Infiltration , declaring the act unconstitutional. The law had allowed police forces to arrest undocumented immigrants and detain them for up to three years without trial. The unanimous decision was reached by a panel of nine supreme [...]
A judge in London ruled on Monday that a Muslim woman who is a defendant in an upcoming trial must remove her full-face veil when presenting evidence. A judge for the Blackfriars Crown Court held that the woman, whose name cannot be identified for legal reasons, may wear her niqab, a garment that covers nearly [...]
A judge at Guantanamo Bay is considering whether to delay the trials of five men charged in the 9/11 terrorist attacks because lawyers in the case have lost data due to problems with a Pentagon computer system. Lawyers for the five men, who have been charged with plotting and aiding the attacks, asked the government [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Paul Juzdan, Seton Hall University School of Law Class of 2014, is the author of a series commenting on the Syrian civil war. In the first part, Juzdan explains and explores the character of the opposition groups in Syria…
JURIST Guest Columnist Sandra Davidson, of the University of Missouri School of Law, says that by failing to provide shield protection at the Federal level, the US risks both a chilling effect on investigative journalism and an increased potential for the uncontrolled release of information …
A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania ruled Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acted within its authority to work with six states and Washington, DC, in promulgating the Final Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load for Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Sediment (TMDL) , an agency regulation designed to [...]
Bahrain security forces are detaining children without cause and “subject them to ill-treatment that may rise to the level of torture,” according to a report released Sunday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . Bahrain is specifically accused of violating the Convention on the Rights of the Child , ratified by Bahrain in 1992, by failing [...]
The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday invalidated provisions of the state’s “aggravated weapon use” law as facially violative of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. In 2008 Chicago police arrested a man for allegedly brandishing a firearm during an altercation with the police. A Cook County court found the defendant guilty of [...]
