A Nepalese army officer was arrested and charged in the UK on Friday with two counts of torture during his country’s civil war in 2005. Colonel Kumar Lama, a 46-year-old officer currently serving in the UN mission in Sudan, was arrested at his East Sussex home by Metropolitan Police officers on Thursday. Lama appeared before [...]
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Friday that it has received “credible reports” of armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) recruiting and including children in the country’s conflict. UNICEF reported that both pro-government and rebel forces have utilized children, and called for all groups to immediately stop involving children. They reported that [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in three cases on Friday. In Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl the court will consider whether the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) allows a non-custodial parent to block an adoption by their non-Indian partner. In this case, a woman put her baby, who was fathered by an American Indian, [...]
A judge for the Provincial Court of British Columbia on Friday ruled that the federal government’s mandatory-minimum sentence for the possession of a loaded and prohibited firearm is arbitrary and fundamentally unjust. Judge James Bahen ruled in the case of Glenn Harley Tetsuji Sheck, a 29-year-old male with no prior criminal record who was arrested [...]
The Constitutional Court of Hungary on Friday struck down an electoral law requiring voters to register to vote at least two weeks before elections in 2014. The new rules had been proposed by the conservative Fidesz party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban . The new electoral law was passed by the Hungarian Parliament last November [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Christina Fialho of Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement speaks out against the isolation of immigrants in confinement across the US…
The chief US military judge overseeing the trial of the accused 9/11 conspirators, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed , has ruled that lawyers cannot make public any material involved in the trial, including unclassified documents. The decision by Judge Army Col. James L. Pohl was issued on December 20 but was just released this week. The [...]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Thursday that Google did not violate antitrust or anticompetition laws. Google’s practice of favoring its own services in search results, to the detriment of its competitors, has been under scrutiny. Though Google will be required to make changes to its business practices that the FTC believes could stifle [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday announced a settlement with Transocean Deepwater Inc. for the company’s role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill . Transocean pleaded guilty to “negligently discharging oil into the Gulf of Mexico,” in violation of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and will pay $1 billion in civil penalties [...]
US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced a new rule Wednesday which will make easier for undocumented immigrants to become citizens if they have an immediate relative who is an American citizen. Under existing law , immediate relatives of US citizens who have been in the US illegally for more than six months must [...]
