China’s government Friday announced that prominent civil rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng would be sent to prison for three years for violating his probation. Gao’s sentence is the first sign that he is still alive since having disappeared 20 months ago, presumably at the hands of the authorities. The announcement was made in a brief report [...]
Two international human rights organizations on Monday accused European countries of suppressing evidence of their roles in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) rendition program of forced transfer and secret detention. Legal action charity Reprieve, in cooperation with the human rights organization Access Info Europe , released their interim findings in a report documenting right [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler of Webster University and the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, both in Geneva, Switzerland, says the US and other aggressors in the Iraq War have not had to face legal recourse for their numerous violations of international law in the invasion and occupation of Iraq… To initiate [...]
The FBI announced Monday that violent crime in the US has dropped , continuing a trend lasting for the past four-and-a-half years. The 2011 figures for January through June were compiled by the Bureau’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) in a preliminary semiannual report . Violent crimes, which include murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated [...]
Amnesty International (AI) responded Monday to the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il by urging his son and likely successor Kim Jong-un to improve the nation’s human rights record. AI warned that reports indicate the exchange in power could forecast new repressions to “crush any possibility of dissent.” Indeed, there are allegations that the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Erica Menze, Marquette University Law School Class of 2012, is a member of the Marquette Sports Law Review. She writes on the implications of labor law and antitrust law on the National Football League’s operations… During the National Football League (NFL) lockout in 2011, the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) — [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist John Bickers of Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law says that changes in the past decade have made the use of military commissions in the fight against al Qaeda both unnecessary and politically detrimental for the US, and argues that they should be abandoned in favor of the federal [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Friday rejected an appeal by former Rwandan pastor Jean-Bosco Uwinkindi , upholding a decision to transfer his case to the Republic of Rwanda to be tried in the Rwandan national court system. The ICTR ordered the transfer in June under Rule 11 bis, which authorizes the transfer [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler of Webster University and the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, both in Geneva, Switzerland, says that there is significant evidence that the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol violates international law by failing to further the goals of the treaty under which it was implemented… The [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday rejected the prosecution’s request that it suspend its order to release accused Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana . Pre-Trial Chamber I on Friday declined to confirm charges , finding that there was insufficient evidence , and ordered Mbarushimana’s release. The prosecution immediately requested a stay of the release [...]
