The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ended a long-running territorial and maritime dispute between Colombia and Nicaragua by ruling Monday that Colombia has sovereignty over a group of small islands in the western Caribbean, while Nicaragua has control over a large amount of the surrounding sea and seabed. The court decided unanimously that Colombia has [...]
A spokesperson for the Australian Minister for Justice said Saturday that he has approved the extradition of Serbian war crimes suspect, Dragan Vasiljkovic , to Croatia. Vasiljkovic is accused of torturing and killing captured members of the Croatian army and police during the 1991-1995 Croatian War for Independence . The spokesperson stated that the minister [...]
The Ivory Coast’s military committed widespread human rights abuses in August and September, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Monday. The report details the alleged abuses including arbitrary arrests, illegal detentions, extortion and torture. The military crackdown was in response to a series of coordinated attacks on military installations in August, allegedly [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against online auction company eBay alleging violations of antitrust law occurring from 2006 to 2009. The complaint avers that eBay violated the Sherman Act , by entering into a no-solicitation and [...]
A dissident Chinese poet was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment on Monday on charges of contract fraud. Li Bifing was sentenced by the Shehong County Court in China’s Sichuan province, according to a lawyer. Li previously served five years in jail for his involvement in the 1989 protests on Tiananmen Square. Li was detained [...]
The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the US Supreme Court decision in Miller v. Alabama , which held that sentencing minors to life without parole constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment , will not apply retroactively. The appeals court ruled that the Supreme Court decision “is not to be applied [...]
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) adopted its first ever Human Rights Declaration at their annual summit on Sunday. The agreement has been widely criticized by human rights groups who expressed concern that the agreement allows for violations and does not do enough to protect fundamental rights. Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra praised the [...]
In an emergency meeting on Saturday, the UN Security Council condemned a series of guerrilla attacks by M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This came after the most recent attack by the group in the eastern region of the DRC as they advance to Goma. The Security Council called for [...]
Several members of the US House of Representatives sent a letter to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday urging the federal government to respect recently passed state legislation on marijuana use. The representatives asked the DOJ and its subdivision, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to refrain from prosecuting individuals and businesses in Colorado [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday accused Myanmar’s government and security forces of being complicit in attacks on Rohingya Muslims in October that forced 35,000 people from their homes. Based on satellite imagery of Muslim communities in Myanmar’s Arakan State, HRW claimed that in some cases, Myanmar soldiers destroyed Rohingya homes and committed violence against [...]
