Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday urged Sudan to end its crackdown against political and cultural groups. In December Sudanese authorities shut down four organizations in Khartoum that promoted cultural diversity, democracy and human rights. The government shut down these groups based on alleged national security concerns. In the press release, HRW’s Africa director Daniel [...]
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday signed an order to remove Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake from office for alleged corruption and bribery. The president’s action comes just two days after the Sri Lankan Parliament voted with an overwhelming majority to impeach the chief justice and drafted an official motion urging the president to remove [...]
An Egyptian appeals judge on Sunday overturned former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s conviction and life sentence and ordered a retrial for the former president on the charge of failure to prevent the killing of more than 800 protestors last year. The judge did not give his reasons for ordering the new trial, but the reasons [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in six new cases on Friday. In Salinas v. Texas the court will consider the boundaries of the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent prior to arrest. Genovevo Salinas was suspected of being involved in a murder. He consented to a search of his home, where police found a [...]
Greece’s Hellenic Parliament approved new tax legislation on Saturday so that the country can pay back loans so that it can continue receiving financial aid. The new legislation would bring the new top-tier tax level to 42 percent for individuals earning more than $56,000 a year, a drastic change from the previous top rate, which [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday called on the Venezuela government to end its censorship and intimidation of media that challenge official reports regarding President Hugo Chavez . Chavez supporters are trying to keep details about his condition and treatment secret, with government agents going so far as to confiscate the computers of a blogger [...]
Mali interim president Dioncounda Traore , while under pressure from Mali’s military, declared a state of emergency on Friday after Islamist rebels on Thursday captured the town of Konna. Traore called for Mali to engage in a general mobilization to defend against the rebel’s advance. France’s President Francois Hollande issued a statement saying that France [...]
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Reserve are expected next week to issue a cease-and-desist order to JPMorgan Chase & Co. to improve its systems and procedures for monitoring transactions and risk. While It is not yet expected that the bank will be fined , the Treasury Department’s anti [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Louise Bennetts of the Cato Institute gives a critique of Dodd-Frank and argues that recent regulatory trends are incompatible with a rule-based system…
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Friday for a UN commission to examine human rights abuses in North Korea . The rights group stated that little has changed within the totalitarian government since Kim Jong-un succeeded his father Kim Jong-il in leading the country one year ago. HRW stated the situation may be getting worse, noting [...]
