Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said Monday that he will release all political detainees and renew a commitment to maintain an open dialogue. The president made these statements after implementing a peace agreement with South Sudan. The rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) had been demanding a prisoner release after nearly two years of fighting government [...]
Lawmakers said Sunday that a bipartisan commission of US senators for immigration reform has reached an agreement after labor and business resolved disagreements over the immigration overhaul. Lawmakers are expected to announce the new immigration reforms when Congress reconvenes next week. There is no final legislative agreement, but lawmakers expect to draft language to include [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Susan H. Bitensky of the Michigan State University College of Law says that the International Labor Organization’s recent report addressing gaps in the current legal regime erected against forced labor is commendable but unsatisfying, arguing that it only superficially touches upon forced labor’s root causes: poverty and profit…
Approximately 250 Yemeni demonstrators gathered Monday in front of the US Embassy in Sanna to demand the release of Yemeni detainees held at Guantanamo Bay . According to media sources, 90 out the 166 remaining Guantanamo detainees are Yemeni , and several have been detained for more than a decade. Protesters reportedly decried conditions at [...]
Kenya’s Supreme Court ruled on Saturday that the results of the country’s presidential election earlier this month are valid, confirming that Uhuru Kenyatta , the son of Kenya’s first president Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, will be the next president. The unanimous verdict by the court stated that the election was “conducted in compliance with the constitution [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the display of a cross at the World Trade Center (WTC) memorial. The lawsuit , brought by American Atheists (AA) alleged two intersecting beams found in the WTC wreckage should not be displayed at the [...]
You may have noticed some changes to JURIST over the course of the last month, to put it mildly. First, the top of the page was taken over by a big banner screaming about our Spring 2013 Fundraising Drive .Second, your objective legal news coverage has been occasionally interrupted by entreaties from yours truly asking [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday revived a 2008 lawsuit against the Department of Justice (DOJ) alleging discriminatory hiring practices based on political affiliation. Former DOJ intern Sean Gerlich alleges that he was denied a position in the department’s Honors Program in 2006 because of his earlier work [...]
Several UN human rights experts called on Bangladesh Friday to cease violent protests and return to peaceful demonstrations. The Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression Frank La Rue expressed concern over attacks against journalists and other media workers, while the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion Heiner Bielefeldt expressed particular alarm at the destruction of [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana ruled Friday that portions of an Indiana immigration law are unconstitutional. At issue were two provisions in the law: one that allows police to arrest non-citizens without a warrant and one that prohibits the use of consular IDs as forms of identification. [...]
