The Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic on Monday voted to impeach outgoing President Vaclav Klaus for charges of treason. After a
Yemen’s government should stop seeking and carrying out the death penalty for child offenders, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Monday. The report found that since 2007 Yemen executed at least 15 men and women who were under 18 at the time of their offense. HRW urged President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi [...]
A Moscow court on Monday began preliminary hearings in the posthumous trial against Russian whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky . This case marks the first time that Russia will carry out a legal proceeding against a deceased person. During the hearing, the judge is expected to set a date to begin trial, after which a state-appointed [...]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday began the trial of 94 people charged with plotting to overthrow the government. The group of defendants includes unnamed doctors, academics, lawyers and other professionals arrested over the past year and accused of forming a secret network with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and designs to raise money [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Amos Guiora of the University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law says that the US executive branch’s practice of using drones to engage in the targeted killing of suspected terrorists should be subjected to some form of judicial review…
JURIST Guest Columnist Nicolas Parke, Texas Tech University School of Law Class of 2013, discusses the ongoing debate about hydraulic fracturing… Fracking, fracing, or fraccing? Regardless of how you spell it, “fracking” is a word that more and more Americans are adding to their vocabulary. While many have heard of fracking, few truly understand the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist M. Patrick Yingling, formerly of Kenya’s Moi University School of Law, says that the fear of corruption and violence raises the stakes in Kenya’s upcoming election higher than ever…
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday upheld the listing of polar bears as a “threatened” species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) . Designation of the animal as threatened gives polar bears the lower of two levels of protection. This designation was challenged by both environmental groups, which [...]
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court on Sunday dismissed complaints against the assembly that drafted the country’s new constitution, the official MENA news agency reported. The complaints had challenged the method for selecting members of the assembly and said the panel, which liberals and Christians had boycotted , did not represent all Egyptians. The charter was passed [...]
Somali appeals court judge Mohamed Hassan Ali on Sunday dropped charges against a woman who alleged she had been raped by Somali government security forces and was consequently charged with defamation against the government. The judge found the evidence insufficient to back the prosecutor’s charge that led the woman to receive a one-year prison sentence [...]
