UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday condemned the increase in attacks on those with albinism in Tanzania. Pillay’s statement comes following four attacks on albinos over a 16-day period, including three children. Pillay called the attacks “abhorrent” and called upon local officials in Tanzania to do more to address the problem [...]
Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe vetoed a bill on Monday that would have prohibited abortions 12 or more more weeks into a pregnancy if the fetus’ heartbeat could be detected at that point. Known as the Human Heartbeat Protection Act , this bill was the most recent addition to a slew of recent Arkansas legislation , [...]
Police in the Maldives arrested former president Mohamed Nasheed on Tuesday for missing a February 10 court appearance for charges that he illegally detained a judge prior to his resignation last year. Nasheed had taken refuge in the Indian High Commission in the Maldives last month to avoid police detainment, but left the Commission 10 [...]
A special court in Afghanistan on Tuesday sentenced 20 men to four to five years in prison for their involvement in the USD $935 million fraud that led to the 2010 collapse of Kabul Bank. Founder and former chairman Sherkhan Farnood and former chief executive officer Khalilullah Ferozi were each given five-year sentences and ordered [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday affirmed a preliminary injunction barring the enforcement of an Arizona immigration law that prohibits motorists from stopping traffic to pick up workers. The injunction applies to two provisions of Arizona’s SB 1070 , which make it unlawful for a motor vehicle occupant to hire [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Terrica Ganzy, Staff Attorney for the Southern Center for Human Rights, argues that Georgia’s “beyond a reasonable doubt standard” for finding mental retardation in capital offenses is a nearly insurmountable standard…
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously in Levin v. United States that the intentional tort exception in the Gonzales Act does not immunize individual government medical personnel against battery suits. Thus, instead of suing the entire government under the Federal Torts Claim Act (FTCA) , a plaintiff can sue the individual medical personnel [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in one new case on Monday. In Walden v. Fiore the court will consider two questions of venue and jurisdiction . First, the court will look at whether a court can exercise personal jurisdiction for a defendant to facilitate Due Process when the only contact the plaintiff has in [...]
The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism Ben Emmerson called Monday on the US government to publish the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report detailing investigations into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) secret detention and interrogation program during the Bush presidency. According to the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Sandy Davidson of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and the University of Missouri School of Law evaluates the Third Circuit’s decision to bar members of the press from reporting inside polling places…
