JURIST Guest Columnist Matthew C. Kane of the University of Oklahoma College of Law and the Oklahoma City University School of Law says that, while the Ugandan Amnesty Act may have granted amnesty to Thomas Kwoyelo, his future is far from settled . . .
JURIST Guest Columnist Aaron Mintzes of EARTHWORKS examines the ways the federal government actually regulates fracking and discusses two case studies in states where industry advocates turn federalism on its head…
A Moscow court on Monday ordered a trial to begin next month against deceased whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky . Magnitsky, who died in prison in 2009, was a lawyer for the Hermitage Capital Fund and was arrested in 2008 by Russian Interior Ministry officials on suspicion of tax evasion after he accused the ministry of [...]
The French data protection agency Commission nationale de l’nformatique et des libertes (CNIL) said Monday that EU data protection agencies intend to take action against Google and investigate the Internet company’s failure to comply with EU privacy laws. In October, after several months of investigating, 27 EU states warned Google that its confidentiality rules do [...]
Both Syrian government forces and anti-government rebels have committed war crimes throughout the two-year armed conflict in Syria, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria in Syria reported Monday. According to the Commission, government forces have utilized a “contraction strategy” to target suspected rebel areas with indiscriminate aerial attacks that have struck hospitals, [...]
A Maldives court issued a second arrest warrant on Monday for former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed on charges of the illegal detention of a judge. The charges against Nasheed stem from his unilateral order to arrest Chief Justice Abdulla Mohamed on corruption charges in January, when Nasheed was still president. Nasheed remains in the Indian [...]
The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court announced Monday that it has rejected parts of the draft election law that will govern the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections. While the court must ratify the legislation before it can be enacted by President Mohamed Morsi , the court has remanded the law to Egypt’s acting legislature to amend five [...]
A White House draft immigration reform proposal would allow immigrants to become legal permanent residents in eight years, USA Today reported on Saturday. The plan reportedly would also increase security funding, require business owners to check the immigration status of new hires within four years, and create a new “Lawful Prospective Immigrant” visa program. If [...]
Seven retired military officers were sentenced on Friday to life in prison for various human rights abuses committed during the “Dirty War” in Argentina from 1976-1983. News of the sentences was released in a statement by the Center of Judicial Information, an office affiliated with the Argentina Supreme Court , on Saturday. The seven officers [...]
The Bangladesh parliament on Sunday approved amendments to the country’s war crimes laws to allow prosecutors to appeal sentences given to defendants convicted of war crimes. These amendments are a response to protests that ensued after Abdul Quader Mollah, leader of the Islamist Jamatt-e-Islami (JI) , was given a life sentence for war crimes committed [...]
