The Ivory Coast Constitutional Council, the nation’s highest court, on Thursday declared Alassane Ouattara winner of the country’s disputed presidential election, reversing a previous decision. The court originally refused to ratify the results of the November election, sparking months of violence between supporters of Ouattara and incumbent candidate Laurent Gbagbo . Constitutional Council President Paul [...]
The Kyrgyzstan Inquiry Commission on Tuesday concluded that the Kyrgyzstan military handed out weapons to Kyrgyz mobs who attacked minority Uzbeks last summer. The international, independent inquiry into the June 2010 ethnic violence that resulted in more than 300 deaths and an additional 2,000 injuries discovered that security forces participated in the violence that killed [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday insisted on “a full disclosure of the accurate facts” surrounding the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden . The White House has altered the official account of the killing since US President Barack Obama first announced that a small team of US military [...]
A Hungarian court on Thursday began the trial of accused Nazi Sandor Kepiro, charged with war crimes committed during the 1942 Novi Sad massacre in Serbia. Kepiro, 97, was named as the world’s most wanted Nazi war crimes suspect by the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) , a Jewish human rights organization committed to finding and [...]
Former Egyptian interior minister Habib el-Adly was convicted Thursday on charges of corruption and money laundering and sentenced to 12 years in prison. Adly, the first Hosni Mubarak regime official to be convicted under the Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces , was also fined USD $2.5 million and had his assets seized by [...]
Opponents of the health care reform law filed a brief Wednesday with the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit requesting a three-judge panel uphold a lower court ruling that struck down the law as unconstitutional. Twenty-six states, led by Florida and the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) , argue that the Patient [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler, professor of law at Webster University and Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, both in Geneva, Switzerland, says that the action against Osama Bin Laden violated international law… Whatever one might think of Osama Bin Laden—a terrorist for his alleged role in killing several thousand Westerners or a [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Amos N. Guiora of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah says that although the killing of Osama Bin Laden was a legitimate military action, it is important to consider the implications of his death for counterterrorism efforts… President Obama’s decision to target Osama Bin Laden was unequivocally [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Wednesday announced that an investigation has uncovered enough evidence to allow him to pursue warrants for forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi for crimes against humanity and war crimes. Moreno-Ocampo said he has found evidence that Libya began hiring mercenaries as early as January in anticipation of [...]
The German Federal Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that the preventive detention of prisoners beyond the maximum sentences for their crimes is unconstitutional. The court held that the laws governing the practice of extending prison terms for prisoners deemed to be a public safety threat violates provisions of the German constitution . “he provisions on the [...]
