The Colombian Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated the murder conviction against ex-politician Alberto Santofimio Botero for the 1989 killing of Luis Carlos Galan, a political opponent of the drug cartels. The court issued an arrest warrant for Santofimio, the former justice minister whose conviction and 24-year sentence were overturned by the High Court of Cundinamarca. [...]
Former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader was indicted on Wednesday for corruption. The country’s Bureau for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime (USKOK) alleges Sanader received a pay-off of more than 3.6 million kuna (nearly USD $695,000) from Austria’s Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank in exchange for the country entering into a loan agreement to receive 140 million Austrian [...]
An Idaho woman has filed suit seeking to prevent prosecution of other women under the state’s standing abortion laws. Mother of three Jennie Linn McCormack was prosecuted earlier this year under a 1972 state law that makes it a felony to end one’s own pregnancy, and is now challenging both that law and Idaho’s newly-enacted [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler of Webster University and Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, both in Geneva, Switzerland, says that the right to participate in government is a recognized aspiration in international law and that in the Middle East this has begun to be realized with the Arab Spring…
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to block the proposed $39 billion acquisition of cellular carrier T-Mobile USA by telecom giant AT&T . The agency filed suit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia and seeks to prevent AT&T from acquiring T-Mobile from parent company [...]
At least 88 individuals have been killed while in custody as a result of their participation in the ongoing protests in Syria, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report released Wednesday. All of the victims were detained because of actual or suspected involvement in the protests for reform, most of which have been nonviolent, that [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Tuesday blocked several provisions of a new Texas law that restricts abortion practices and requires a doctor to perform a sonogram prior to the procedure. The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) filed a challenge to the law on behalf of a [...]
The Bolivian Supreme Court of Justice on Tuesday convicted seven officials—five military officers and two former cabinet ministers—of committing genocide. The military officials received sentences of 10–15 years while the former cabinet ministers received three-year sentences for complicity in the murders. The convicted leaders are not permitted an appeal . One commander of the army, [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Monday that an Iowa girl born two years after her father’s death was not entitled to his Social Security benefits. After the death of her husband, Patti Beeler used in vitro fertilization (IVF) to conceive the child, known as BEB, with her late husband’s preserved [...]
The president of Vietnam on Monday ordered the release of more than 10,000 prisoners, granting amnesty to commemorate the country’s National Day. Although none of the high profile government dissidents was released, the president freed five individuals convicted of national security crimes. Eleven of the prisoners released are foreigners from countries including the US, Canada [...]
