Somali citizen Jama Idle Ibrahim pleaded guilty Friday to several charges in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for his role in the April attack on the USS Ashland in the Gulf of Aden. Ibrahim, originally charged with piracy , reached an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to charges of [...]
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen filed suit Friday against Apple, eBay, Google and eight other corporations in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington , claiming the infringement of four patents related to website navigation and electronic information presentation. According to the complaint, which also names AOL, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday reported Kenya to the UN Security Council and the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute over Friday’s visit by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir . Al-Bashir was in Kenya, an ICC member state, to celebrate the signing of the country’s new constitution . ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I [...]
A court in Madagascar on Saturday sentenced former president Marc Ravalomanana to life in prison with hard labor for ordering the killing of opposition protesters in February 2009. Ravalomanana, who has been living in South Africa since his ouster in March of last year, was sentenced in absentia on charges of murder and accessory to [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder, defense counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law says that even though the White House is now more openly critical of Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s regime, the US and international community at large must take a much closer look [...]
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) on Thursday filed the state’s opening brief in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , asking the court to lift the preliminary injunction blocking Arizona’s controversial immigration law from taking full effect. In the brief, Arizona argues that the preliminary injunction should be vacated because District Judge [...]
An Iranian court has sentenced Qorban Behzadiannejad, the campaign manager for opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi during the 2009 election , to five years in prison, opposition website Kaleme reported Friday. The report does not identify the charges against Behzadiannejad. The former campaign manager was also reportedly fined $100 for insulting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . [...]
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) concluded its 77th session Friday by expressing concern with the discrimination faced by Roma migrants in numerous European countries, focusing on France’s recent expulsion policy. The committee’s concern was not limited to France’s expulsion policy, but also included the behavior of politicians, including “political speeches [...]
Members of the UN Security Council expressed “outrage” Thursday over a recent mass rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) , calling for justice for the victims. UN representatives allege that Congolese rebel groups Mai Mai and the Democratic Liberation Force of Rwanda (FDLR) raped between 150 and 200 women and children in a [...]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday appealed a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that the agency’s television indecency rule is unconstitutionally vague in violation of the First Amendment. The July appellate court decision further held that the FCC’s rule, which allowed broadcasters to be fined based on isolated [...]
