Al-Shabaab radicals launched an attack on Sunday against Somalia’s Supreme Court. The attack, resulting in at least 35 deaths , was one of the worst attacks in years for the country’s capital of Mogadishu. According to the Somali government, nine men were involved in the attack against the court, six of whom detonated explosive vests. [...]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday charged the former partner in charge of KPMG’s Pacific Southwest audit practice, Scott London, with providing insider information to his friend Bryan Shaw about KPMG clients Herbalife, Skechers and Deckers Outdoor Corporation . The SEC alleges that London’s insider tips allowed Shaw to make more than $1.2 [...]
The Supreme Court of India on Sunday upheld a death penalty sentence against Devinderpal Singh Bhullar , a convicted terrorist. This ruling allows the Indian government to continue a trend toward use of execution that began in November after a de facto moratorium on its use since 2004. The government had a policy beginning in [...]
Lawyers for prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay said on Monday that the US government has started to notify them when their clients participating in a hunger strike are being force-fed. The hunger strike , which has been ongoing since February, is a protest against indefinite detainment and the confiscation and unreasonable searches of detainees’ [...]
The North Dakota House of Representatives voted on Friday to pass SB 2368 , a measure outlawing abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy based on the controversial premise that a fetus can feel pain after 20 weeks of gestation. The bill was approved by the North Dakota Senate by a margin of 30-17 in February, [...]
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism Ben Emmerson on Friday called on the international community to protect Burkina Faso from terrorism , warning that attacks on the country’s infrastructure or security would undermine social cohesion within the country, impair inward investment and further destabilize the region. Burkina Faso is particularly vulnerable due to [...]
The US House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday that exempts senior government officials from having to report their financial information online. The bill amends the Stop Insider Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (STOCK Act) to remove many senior government officials from the reporting requirements on the grounds that the posting of financial information [...]
The trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak ended only a few minutes after it began on Saturday when the judge recused himself because of a conflict of interest. Mubarak, who ruled Egypt from 1981 until 2011, faced re-trial on charges relating to corruption and the killing of protesters during a 2011 uprising. The judge [...]
France’s Senate voted on Friday in favor of a same-sex marriage bill that would allow same-sex couples to wed and adopt children. The bill will return in May to the National Assembly for final approval, and would then become law this summer. The approval comes just a week after the Senate’s debate commenced . The [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Gabor Halmai of Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest says that the Fourth Amendment to the Fundamental Law of Hungary undermines several constitutional rights and implicates the entire scheme of constitutionalism in Hungary…
