A special anti-terrorist court at the Palais de Justice in Paris began proceedings on Monday in the trial of alleged terrorist “Carlos the Jackal” accused of planning numerous bombings throughout France in the early 80s. Venezuelan-born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, widely known as “Carlos the Jackal,” is currently serving a life sentence in France for the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Ottilia Maunganidze, Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, says that the NTC must conduct a proper investigation into Muammar Gaddafi’s death to meet its international obligations and ensure justice for human rights violations…
JURIST Guest Columnist Melissa Reed, Vice President for Public Policy at Planned Parenthood Health Systems, Inc., says that the recently blocked provisions of a North Carolina abortion law violated First Amendment rights and were a demeaning invasion into the relationship between women and their doctors…
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Saturday indicted seven people in the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto . A senior officer and the former police chief of Rawalpindi, where the assassination took place, along with five militants, alleged members of the Pakistani Taliban, were among those charged with conspiracy in Bhutto’s murder. [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday issued a letter to Alabama’s Attorney General Luther Strange , declaring its authority to investigate potential violations of civil rights laws. The letter, authored by Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez , was in response to a letter the DOJ received from Strange on Wednesday, in which he [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Umar Oseni of Harvard Law School says the international concern over the announcement of Islamic law in Libya is misplaced, and instead the international community should focus on helping build an Islamic legal system that upholds human rights and the rule of law…
Ohio Governor John Kasich on Friday signed into law House Bill 63 , creating further restrictions on minors if they seek an abortion without parental consent. The new law puts several conditions in place, advancing the former law of making a minor receive a judge’s consent to have an abortion without parental notification. Now, judges [...]
The New Jersey Superior Court Friday ruled that a marriage equality lawsuit can continue, partially denying a motion to dismiss filed by the New Jersey Attorney General . Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit in June on behalf of Garden State Equality (GSE), New Jersey’s statewide LGBT advocacy organization, and seven same-sex couples and their children [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Friday rejected the appeal of condemned murderer Reginald Brooks, affirming but not definitively ruling on Ohio’s new death penalty procedures. In July, Judge Gregory Frost stayed the executions of two inmates , agreeing with their arguments that Ohio executes inmates haphazardly, [...]
United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay praised the engagement of Moldova government officials Friday but noted troubling deficiencies in citizens’ economic and social rights, during a press conference at the end of her four-day visit to the country. Pillay said, from the capital city of Chisinau, that her visit to Moldova [...]
