A Beijing court on Tuesday sentenced Chinese housing activist and lawyer, Ni Yulan, to two years and eight months in prison on charges of fraud and “inciting a disturbance” in Beijing. Ni’s husband, Dong Jiqin, was also sentenced to two years in prison on similar charges. Ni and her husband had assisted victims of government [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that five terrorism suspects facing extradition from the UK to the US will not face inhumane prison conditions in the US. The court held that British citizens Syed Talha Ahsan, Babar Ahmad , Saudi-born Khaled Al-Fawwaz and Egyptian-born radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri will not [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Dmytro Vorobey is an LL.M. Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and has interned at the district prosecutor’s office and the district court in Novomoskovsk, Ukraine. In the second entry of a 14-part series from the LL.M. students of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Vorobey provides insight [...]
The Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Monday released the full text of its appeals judgment in the case of Kaing Guek Eav , also known as “Duch.” Case 001, , which was the first case before the ECCC, was originally decided by the Supreme Court Chamber [...]
A trial court in the West Indian state of Gujarat on Monday convicted 23 people of crimes committed during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The riots stemmed from anger over the death of 60 Hindus in a fire aboard a train. As a result of the casualties, riots broke out targeting Muslims who were blamed for [...]
Syrian security forces have executed more than 100 civilians and opposition fighters during recent attacks, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Monday. Accompanying the report, emergencies researcher at HRW stated that in an attempt to stop uprisings, pro-government and government officials have gone too far without any apparent concern about accountability for their crimes. International human [...]
The Israeli justice minister has proposed a bill that would allow the Israeli Knesset to reinstate laws that have been struck down by the Israeli Supreme Court . Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman last week proposed the bill, which would give parliament authority to overturn Supreme Court decisions that find laws unconstitutional. If a majority of [...]
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federal on Monday dismissed all charges against a Russian doctor accused of negligence in the death of former Russian lawyer and purported whistle-blower Sergei Magnitsky , who died in a Moscow prison in November 2009. Larisa Litvinova, who was Magnitsky’s doctor while he in prison, had been accused of [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists Jay Sekulow and Edward White of the American Center for Law and Justice say that the federal government does not have the authority to enforce the individual mandate, and because the mandate is not severable from the ACA, the entire law should be deemed unconstitutional…
JURIST Columnists Alan Brownstein and Vikram Amar, writing the third installment of the column authored by the faculty of the University of California, Davis School of Law, say that the recent protests at UC Davis provide a teachable moment on the limits of free speech in college protests…
