The United Arab Emirates (UAE) plans to adopt a new anti-corruption law to comply with the UN Convention against Corruption . The new plan will be created by the state’s Audit Bureau which is the sole authority for fighting corruption and has the role of safeguarding public funds and curbing financial malpractices. Hareb bin Saeed [...]
The four International Criminal Court (ICC) staff members who are being held in Libya will remain in “preventative” detention for 45 days while an investigation is conducted, a anonymous judicial source told AFP on Monday. The four ICC detainees traveled to Libya Wednesday to meet with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , the son of former Libyan [...]
Both sides in the case of former Kenyan minister William Ruto and journalist Joshua Arap Sang announced on Monday that the trial will start next March before the International Criminal Court (ICC) despite the election during the same month. Ruto is considered a leading candidate in the election which will take place March 4, 2013. [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in seven different cases dealing with Guantanamo Bay detainees. The court’s refusal to hear the cases preserves the decisions of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, including the case of Latif v. Obama in which the court ruled that the government’s evidence [...]
The Supreme Court of Canada on Monday began reviewing the case of Mohammed Momin Khawaja . The review will mainly focus on the constitutionality of the term “terrorist activity” in the Anti-Terrorism Act . The defense lawyer argued that the motive clause is unconstitutional due to its overbroad and vague nature and thus, a new [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida (ACLU-FL) announced Friday that it has filed a lawsuit seeking to end Florida’s controversial purging of voter rolls. The ACLU-FL contends that Florida’s policy of purging voter rolls violates federal law, discriminates against racial minorities, and that in practice, citizens are frequently forced to re-verify their citizenship or [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 that the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) provides the exclusive form of judicial review for employment grievances of qualifying federal employees. In Elgin v. Department of Treasury , Michael Elgin and several other former federal employees argued that a law banning individuals who fail to register for [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Evans v. Michigan to determine whether the double jeopardy clause bars retrial after the trial judge erroneously holds a particular fact to be an element of the offense and then grants a midtrial directed verdict of acquittal because the prosecution failed to prove that fact. The defendant [...]
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Monday asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to dismiss the charges against him for lack of evidence. The prosecution finished presenting its case last month, and Karadzic is scheduled to begin his own case in November. Karadzic is defending himself in court and has [...]
The State Council Information Office (SCIO) on Monday published its second National Human Rights Action Plan . The plan succeeds a previous plan covering 2009-2010 period and will address human rights protection work from 2012-2015. The plan indicated that the country has not fully been able to ensure complete access to human rights for its [...]
