The Singapore government on Monday announced plans to ease mandatory death penalty sentencing requirements for murder and drug trafficking. Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean announced to the parliament that by the end of the year the government will put forth draft legislation to provide judges more leeway to deal with certain drug and murder [...]
An Egyptian court on Monday rejected pleas to release two sons of ousted former leader Hosni Mubarak while they await trial. Their lawyer, Farid el-Deeb, argued that his clients are detained unlawfully because they were arrested for misdemeanor and not for felony which would allow authorities to detain an individual only up to six months, [...]
Arguments began in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday in a lawsuit brought by Texas against the US government regarding a voter identification law that was blocked by the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) . State of Texas v. Holder concerns a 2011 [...]
UN Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan on Monday said that he had reached an agreement with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to end the violent conflict in the country. Annan, who met with Al-Assad on Monday, said the president was committed to ending violence in Syria and that he would continue to work with the UN [...]
A panel commissioned by the Israeli government recommended Monday that the state legalize dozens of unsanctioned West Bank settlements. The government has not yet endorsed the recommendations , which include facilitating settlement construction by annulling orders of the Supreme Court of Israel and other legal rulings. The Palestinians, 2.5 million of whom live in the [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday resumed the trial of former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic . The court reopened the trial with the testimony of witness Elvedin Pasic, who was a juvenile at the time of the Bosnian civil war in the 1990s. He lived in the village [...]
Russia’s Constitutional Court on Monday ruled that the World Trade Organization (WTO) accession package protocol for membership does not offend the Russian Constitution. The court’s unanimous decision quashed the challenge brought by a group of 131 opposition lawmakers from the Just Russia and Communist parties, who had claimed a breach in procedure when the accession [...]
A UK court ruled Monday in favor of Samsung Electronics (UK) Limited in a design infringement case brought by Apple . Apple filed suit against its rival Samsung in the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division , alleging that three of Samsung’s tablets infringed upon Apple’s registered design patents while Samsung denied infringement. The issue [...]
Newly elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Sunday issued a decree calling the dissolved Egyptian parliament back into session. The parliament was dissolved in June after the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt ruled that one-third of its members were elected illegally . Although the court said in its decision that the entire body was invalid, [...]
Prominent Bahraini rights activist Nabeel Rajab was sentenced to three months in prison on Monday in connection to comments he posted on his Twitter page in June. Rajab was arrested last month for posting the comments to his page. He was released on bail after spending three weeks in prison. The case is one of [...]
