Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Wednesday on Bahraini authorities to make a prompt investigation into torture allegations made by four Shia activists who have been detained for more than two weeks. On August 27, after 15 days of solitary confinement, Abd al-Jalil al-Singace, one of the detained men, was brought for formal questioning and arraignment [...]
Current and former international prosecutors on Tuesday signed the fourth Chautauqua Declaration praising recent advances in international law and urging countries to continue supporting the international courts in order to maintain the spirit of the Nuremburg Principles . The prosecutors, who have worked with the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Criminal Tribunal for the [...]
The UN announced Thursday that it will delay the release of a report that accuses Rwandan forces of committing acts of genocide in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during the years following the 1994 Rwandan genocide . According to a statement by the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) , [...]
A criminal court in Thailand on Thursday convicted two members of the pro-government People’s Alliance for Democracy Network , known as “yellow shirts,” of defaming former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra . Yellow shirt movement founder and Thai media mogul Sondhi Limthongkul and his former television co-host Sarocha Pornudomsak were convicted of defaming Thaksin during their [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Wednesday denied the government’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Hornbeck Offshore Services and several other drilling companies challenging the government’s latest moratorium on offshore drilling. The moratorium directive was issued on July 12 by Secretary of the Interior Ken [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that it has charged Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimulla Mehsud in connection with the December 30 attack on Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Afghan outpost Camp Chapman that left nine people dead. Mehsud identifies himself as the head of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) , a Pakistan-based terrorist cell affiliated [...]
Former Illinois governor George Ryan on Tuesday filed a motion in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois asking the judge to vacate his prison sentence, following a recent US Supreme Court decision that allegedly set new precedent supporting Ryan’s appeal. In June, the Supreme Court ruled in Skilling v. United States [...]
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas ruled Tuesday that the state ban on same-sex marriage does not violate the US Constitution. The court also held that state trial courts do not have jurisdiction to hear cases involving the divorce of same-sex couples married in another state, overturning a 2009 ruling in [...]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Wednesday that a judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has approved a fund set up by Bank of America (BOA) in accordance with the settlement agreement reached earlier this year. The SEC had charged BOA with misleading investors regarding billions [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona on Tuesday granted a motion to dismiss a police officer’s suit challenging Arizona’s controversial immigration law . Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) filed a motion to dismiss the challenge made by Tucson police officer Martin Escobar arguing that the new immigration law would [...]
