UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday urged states to honor treaties with indigenous peoples, two days before the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples . Pillay stated that treaties with indigenous peoples ought to be respected regardless of how long ago they were signed and that such treaties serve to [...]
Fatou Bensouda, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) , released a statement on Wednesday expressing her concern over the deteriorating security situation in the Central African Republic (CAR). Bensouda called upon the international community to assist the CAR government in enhancing security and protecting civilians. Bensouda also reiterated the commitment of her office [...]
The Uganda Parliament on Tuesday passed a new law that imposes restrictions on public meetings and gatherings in the country. The law requires that meetings of a political nature held between three or more people be authorized by the police and allows police to use force in order to break up gatherings being held without [...]
Prosecutors from the US Attorneys Office for the Northern District of Illinois on Tuesday unsealed a criminal complaint that was filed last month against two men for illegally lobbying US lawmakers on behalf of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe . The complaint filed against Prince Asiel Ben Israel and C. Gregory Turner stated that the men [...]
The Wisconsin Department of Justice on Tuesday appealed a federal judge’s injunction blocking a new law that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals within 30 miles of their clinics and administer a mandatory ultrasound before a woman receives an abortion. DOJ attorneys filed the notice of appeal with the US Court [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Liz Clark Rinehart, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Class of 2015, explores the role of reverse jury nullification in the context of the George Zimmerman trial…
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday filed criminal charges in the deadly attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The sealed complaint was filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington against an unspecified number of individuals. The charges are the first filed in connection with the [...]
Colonel Denise Lind on Tuesday granted in part a defense motion to merge Pfc. Manning’s convictions for sentencing purposes, reducing the possible maximum sentence from 136 to 90 years. Manning was convicted of 20 counts of espionage, theft, and fraud last week for releasing military documents to Wikileaks. Linde combined 16 of the 20 counts [...]
Texas officials responded Monday to a US Department of Justice filing asking the US District Court for the Western District of Texas to subject the state to a preclearance regime similar to the one required by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) . In a 54-page filing, the Texas officials argued [...]
Chilean judge Mario Carroza on Monday rejected a request by human rights lawyer Eduardo Contreras to prosecute former general Fernando Matthei for murder. Matthei oversaw the military facility where General Alberto Bachelet was tortured to death in 1973 after Bachelet refused to support the military coup lead by Augusto Pinochet . Contreras has attempted to [...]
