Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir issued a resolution Sunday declaring a state of emergency in areas near the border with South Sudan and suspending the constitution. The move follows the arrest Saturday of four people whom the Sudanese claim were arrested for aggression against the north in the contested Heglig oil fields. Those claims have been [...]
Bahrain’s police officers regularly abuse minor detainees before transporting them to police stations, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Sunday after a five-day visit to the country. During the visit to Bahrain, HRW conducted interviews with young males who alleged that police officers had beat them while they were being arrested for participating in protests. Bahrain [...]
Vietnamese-American activist Nguyen Quoc Quan was arrested earlier this month in Vietnam for allegedly attempting to stop celebrations in remembrance of the end of the Vietnam War , reports said on Sunday. Vietnamese newspaper Tuoi Tre reported Quan was arrested on charges of terrorism for planning to hold protests in support of a banned group [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Ann Eisenberg, Cornell University Law School Class of 2012, is an Articles and Symposium Editor for the Cornell International Law Journal. She questions whether EU membership is the best decision for Croatia given the current debt crisis…
JURIST Guest Columnist Jeff Barnum, University of Washington School of Law Class of 2012, is a Lieutenant in the US Coast Guard. In this article he argues for amending the Stolen Valor Act to better comply with free speech… It is a busy time at the Roberts Court. In addition to wrestling with the health [...]
Rasema Handanovic, a woman accused of killing Bosnian Croat civilians during the 1992-1995 Bosnian Civil War , pleaded guilty Friday before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina . This makes her the first woman convicted of war crimes by the local Bosnian court. Fellow combatants testified to having witnessed Handanovic personally shoot wounded victims in [...]
South African President Jacob Zuma announced Saturday that he will be issuing pardons , known as “special remissions,” to 35,000 offenders in order to ease prison overcrowding. The remissions were issued in honor of Freedom Day commemorating Nelson Mandela winning the nation’s first all-race elections in 1994. According to the police minister , 14,600 of [...]
A judge for the Kyivsky District Court of Kharkiv ruled Saturday that a tax evasion hearing for former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko will be postponed until May 21, due to health concerns. Tymoshenko’s latest legal battle concerns allegations of tax evasion while she headed the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) in 1996. Proceedings [...]
Somali national Mohommad Saaili Shibin was convicted in a US court on Friday of piracy for his role in the hijacking of a German merchant vessel and a US yacht in 2010 and 2011. Shibin, who played the role of negotiator in the hijackings, was convicted of 15 charges , including kidnapping and hostage-taking which [...]
Blind Chinese rights activist Chen Guangcheng fled the guarded home where he was being kept under house arrest to the protection of US officials last week, reports said Friday. While the US embassy has not confirmed reports that Chen is at the embassy , US-based rights group ChinaAid has confirmed that the US is in [...]
