The International Criminal Court on Friday received requests to investigate Rwandan President Paul Kagame for backing armed rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) . Rwandan and Congolese advocacy groups opposed to Kagame’s rule have alleged that the Rwandan leader is guilty of war crimes for helping to create and arm rebel groups [...]
The United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) will cease its work on Sunday at midnight, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Edmund Mulet announced a press briefing on Thursday. According to Mulet, the mission must cease its work because the two conditions required by the UN Security Council to renew UNSMIS’ mandate, the cessation [...]
The Supreme Court of New Zealand declined Wednesday to overturn a lower court decision holding that US authorities must turn over a large amount of evidence in order to secure the extradition of Megaupload.com founder Kim Dotcom, who is accused of orchestrating the largest copyright infringement in the country’s history. Justice Helen Winkelmann rejected the [...]
Ukraine’s Supreme Administrative Court on Wednesday declined to overturn a lower court decision prohibiting former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and former interior affairs minister Yuriy Lutsenko from running in the upcoming parliamentary elections. The court thus affirmed the August 11 decision of the Kyiv Administrative Appeal Court upholding the Central Electoral Commission’s resolution No. [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it will require Verizon and four cable companies to make changes in service agreements to ensure that the agreements do not suppress competition . In December, Verizon entered into an agreement with T-Mobile to transfer many of its wireless spectrum licenses to T-Mobile. At the same [...]
German data privacy authorities on Wednesday reopened an investigation into facial recognition software used by Facebook that automatically recognizes facial features in pictures and “tags” users when others upload photos of them. Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Johannes Caspar claims that Facebook is illegally compiling a huge database of members’ photos [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the government of Kazakhstan on Wednesday to ensure that the upcoming trials of two political activists and an oil worker comport with international legal standards for fair trials. Two opposition movement leaders, Vladimir Kozlov and Serik Sapargaly, as well as oil worker Akzhanat Aminov all face charges of “inciting social [...]
The High Court of England and Wales on Thursday denied the plea of a paralyzed man challenging the legitimacy of the Suicide Act 1961 and other laws barring his ability to commit suicide. Tony Nicklinson, 58, along with a 47-year-old man known only as Martin, brought the right-to-die case seeking immunity for a doctor who [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Carolina Núñez of the Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School says that recent judicial and executive pronouncements highlight the role and importance of discretion in immigration law…
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on Wednesday under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to compel the FBI to release two memoranda detailing the agency’s policy on GPS tracking. The ACLU asserts that the memos were written shortly following the US Supreme Court decision United States v. Jones , which held [...]
