Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law Friday a recently passed bill that would prohibit United States citizens from adopting Russian children. The legislation was unanimously passed this week by the Council of Federation , the upper house of the Russian parliament, after passing the lower house by a vote of 420 to 7. Putin [...]
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday that he intends to sign a recently passed bill that would prohibit United States citizens from adopting Russian children. The legislation was unanimously passed this week by the Council of Federation , the upper house of the Russian parliament, after passing the lower house by a vote of 420 [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Saudi Arabia to dismiss a criminal case escalated last week to a senior Saudi court on apostasy charges. Website editor Raif Badawi, 30, was originally charged with “insulting Islam through electronic channels” for co-founding the religious discussion website Free Saudi Liberals, but he now faces the death penalty for [...]
More than 20 civilians, including eight children, were killed in Syria’s northern province of al-Raqqa, according to a video posted Wednesday by activists. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that many other civilians were injured in the government’s attack. The video posted online displayed several dead bodies on blankets outside of houses, including [...]
US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday denied Hobby Lobby, Inc.’s application for injunction which would have prevented enforcement of the provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) mandating that companies provide employees with coverage for contraceptives pending its appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit challenging [...]
Bahraini defense lawyer Mohammed al-Jishi announced that the High Criminal Court of Appeals on Wednesday commuted death sentences for two male protesters to life imprisonment. The men were sentenced for their role in Bahrain’s 2011’s political uprisings when they allegedly killed two policemen. Two other in the killing had their sentences reduced to 15 years [...]
Russia’s upper house of parliament the Council of Federation by a vote of 143 to 0 backed a bill on Wednesday prohibiting the adoption of Russian children by American parents. The bill called the Yakovlev initiative was named for Dima Yakovlev, a US adopted Russian toddler who died in 2008 in Virginia. The White House [...]
President Mohammed Morsi signed Egypt’s new constitution into law late Tuesday, which was supported by over 63 percent of those who voted in the referendum. However, only 32.9% of Egypt’s total of 52 million voters actually participated in the referendum, leading many to debate its results. Egyptian press and commentators are divided over the approval [...]
A judge for the Superior Court of Fulton County granted a temporary injunction on a law banning doctors from providing abortions for women pregnant beyond 20 weeks. The law in question was Georgia House Bill 954, which would have modified OCGA 16-12-141 with the changes to become effective January 1, 2013. The enjoined provisions include [...]
Georgian Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili announced Tuesday that the former justice minister in Georgia, Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili, is set to be charged on December 26 in connection with the torture of prisoners in the country’s capital of Tbilisi. The prosecution is investigating allegations of torture in the prison. The prosecution explained that it was [...]
