UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday condemned the escalating violence in Syria, insisting that any use of chemical weapons would constitute a crime against humanity with “serious results for the perpetrator.” Ban called for an immediate investigation into the use of chemical weapons in Syria and asked the country’s government to fully cooperate in the [...]
Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the High Court of Bolochistan on Saturday dismissed a request to move former president Pervez Musharraf’s trial over the killing of Baloch leader Akbar Bugti to the neighboring city of Rawalpindi. Lawyers for Musharraf argued that he faced numerous threats in Balochistan and requested, for security purposes, that his [...]
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez on Friday urged the US government to ban the use of prolonged or indefinite solitary confinement. In several California prisons, hunger strikes began on July 8, with more than 30,000 inmates refusing food to protest the allegedly cruel use of solitary confinement as punishment within the [...]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled on Friday that Samsung and Apple do not have to publicly disclose financial details submitted during the patent litigation between the two companies. The court’s opinion reversed a ruling by the US District Court for the Northern District of California which required the companies [...]
A jury of six military personnel on Friday ruled Staff Sergeant Robert Bales would receive life in prison without parole for killing 16 Afghan civilians. The panel deliberated for less than two hours . The commanding general overseeing the court-martial still has the option to reduce the sentence to life in prison with the possibility [...]
Former Egyptian prime minister Hosni Mubarak was moved from prison to house arrest on a military hospital on Thursday. Mubarak’s release comes amid widespread protests led by the Muslim Brotherhood following last month’s ouster of president Mohammed Morsi. Although Mubarak’s release of comes at a politically charged time in Egypt, there has been little protest. [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday condemned the reported chemical weapon attacks that killed hundreds in the Ghouta region of Damascus as a “serious escalation” in the fight between Syria’s government and rebel forces. The alleged attacks were part of the Syrian government’s efforts to drive out rebel forces from the [...]
Paraguay’s Congress on Thursday officially granted President Horatio Cartes the power to order military interventions without prior legislative approval. The grant of power came after five security guards were were killed by the Paraguayan People’s Army (EPP) in northern Paraguay. Opponents of the move argue that granting Cartes such power violates balance of power principles, [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday against an Arizona law that disqualified health providers which perform abortions, such as Planned Parenthood , from receiving public funds. The law would have cut off funding to such health care providers for other medical needs such as contraceptives, treatment for sexually transmitted diseases [...]
Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK) sued the Indiana State Department of Health on Thursday, challenging a new regulation on abortion facilities. Under the law, facilities prescribing Mifepristone, the so-called “abortion pill,” will be defined as an abortion clinic and be required to meet regulatory requirements of surgical facilities, even when they do not [...]
