A spokesperson for China’s Municipal Higher People’s Court on Friday criticized those responsible for granting the Nobel Peace Prize to dissident Liu Xiaobo . Liu, who was awarded the 2010 Peace Prize , is currently serving an 11-year sentence for subversion of state power. The unnamed spokesperson reinforced China’s dedication to the rule of law [...]
The Myanmar Supreme Court on Friday heard the final appeal filed by pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi challenging the extension of her house arrest. The hearing comes two weeks before Suu Kyi’s house arrest is scheduled to end , but her lawyers maintain their goal is to prove her innocence . Suu Kyi’s appeal [...]
President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , Judge Sang-Hyun Song , called Thursday on the international community to redouble its efforts to arrest eight suspects sought for alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide. Of the eight individuals with outstanding arrest warrants are four commanders of the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) who [...]
The Kenyan Cabinet on Thursday authorized a 3.5 billion shilling expenditure to finance the transition to the country’s new constitution. The funds, roughly USD $43 million , are intended to facilitate implementation of the revised charter by the close of the current fiscal year. The new constitution includes numerous checks on presidential authority , among [...]
Secretary-General of Hezbollah Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah called Thursday for all Lebanese to boycott the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) , a probe into the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri . A crisis is currently developing in Lebanon due to unconfirmed reports that suggest the tribunal is set to implicate members of Hezbollah [...]
The EU Court of Justice has reinstated a ban on the import of seal products, according to a ruling released Thursday rejecting challenges by Canada’s Inuit hunters and fur traders. Regulation (EC) No 1007/2009 , which recognizes seals as “sentient beings that can experience pain, distress, fear and other forms of suffering,” and bans all [...]
The head of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) made a public statement Thursday defending the use of secrecy for protecting national security, but also acknowledging concerns over some of the agency’s adopted tactics. SIS Chief John Sawers addressed questions about the value of a secret intelligence effort and whether the public could be confident [...]
A Kuwaiti appeals court on Thursday upheld the acquittal of eight men accused of attempting to form an al Qaeda cell and planning to attack a US base 70 miles south of Kuwait City. The men were tried and acquitted by a lower court in May, with two of the men, Mohsen al-Fadhli and Mohammad [...]
The trial of 25 Shia Muslim opposition activists began in Bahrain on Thursday with the activists pleading not guilty to charges of plotting to overthrow the government and supporting terror cells. The activists said that they were working for an unnamed foreign government . The suspects, who have been under arrest since August, are charged [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) will decide whether to prosecute additional Khmer Rouge officers. Ban spoke to reporters after visiting a genocide museum in Phnom Penh, ending a three-day trip to Cambodia, and said that the ECCC would decide if there will be more [...]
