The Obama administration has brought Somali terror suspect Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame to the US to face a civil trial in New York, a decision that has sparked harsh criticism. Warsame was captured by US forces in April somewhere in the Gulf region and detained on a US Navy ship for questioning until being sent to [...]
The UN Organization Stabilization Mission in DR Congo (MONUSCO) released a report confirming the use of rape as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last summer, but continued investigations were suspended on Wednesday due to reprisal attacks on rape victims . The report, released last week, indicated that most [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Idaho has issued a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of an Idaho anti-union law that bans a union program that subsidizes employment for its members. The law, called the Fairness in Contracting Act, prohibits union programs used by construction workers unions that pool portions [...]
Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens filed a notice of appeal in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia on Tuesday, stating that he plans to appeal the recent injunction of a controversial immigration bill . Judge Thomas Thrash issued a preliminary injunction for the plaintiffs—the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National [...]
Syria security forces may have committed crimes against humanity during an operation to suppress demonstrations in the Western town of Tell Kalakh, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report published Wednesday. AI said that its investigation revealed that during a security sweep in Tell Kalakh beginning May 14, security forces conducted killings, mass arrests, arbitrary [...]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said that the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in pre-trial was the result of criminal acts, differing from the previous explanation that had blamed prison doctors. Medvedev was presented with a report on Magnitsky’s death during a meeting with the Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights that said [...]
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced on Tuesday that they are launching a criminal investigation into United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU), an energy company at one time headed by former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko . The SBU is investigating UESU’s potential embezzlement of USD $405 million from the government. Although the press release [...]
Moshe Gershovich of the University of Nebraska at Omaha argues that despite the imperfections of Morocco’s constitutional reforms, they provide a model of gradual and peaceful democratic transition to the region…
An Egyptian court on Tuesday acquitted three former ministers under ousted president Hosni Mubarak on charges of misappropriating state funds. The Cairo Criminal Court found three ministers not guilty : Ahmed Maghrabi, former minister of housing, Yousef Boutros-Ghali, former minister of finance, and former minister of information Anas el-Fiqqi. The verdict is the first time [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Sallie Sanford of the University of Washington School of Law says that the opinion upholding health care reform by Judge Sutton, a self-described “middle-management judge,” will prove influential in other circuits and beyond due to his conservative status and well-crafted opinion… Just in time for Fourth of July holiday reading and less [...]
