The Supreme Court of Bangladesh on Monday upheld the conviction of Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, an Islamist preacher sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the 1971 liberation war in the country. Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha delivered the judgment of the court, rejecting pleas from both sides to change the verdict. The state [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a lower court’s rejection of a North Carolina Voter ID law . The piece of legislation, which was originally enacted in 2013 has faced numerous legal challenges over the past years, including the Supreme Court previously declining to reinstate the law before the 2016 election. The [...]
Egypt’s State Council General Assembly on Saturday nominated their own council head despite a recent amendment reserving that right for President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi . The nomination follows a contentious debate over amending the judiciary laws to give the president more control over the judiciary to fight terrorism. The council nominated Judge Yehia Dakroury to [...]
Thousands of Tunisians on Saturday protested a bill that would grant amnesty to officials facing corruption charges from a previous regime. Under the amnesty bill officials who had money seized from them following the overthrow of former president Ben Ali would be pardoned and have their funds returned to them. Proponents of the bill say [...]
UN Secretary-General (UN SG) António Guterres on Friday appointed UK’s Mark Lowcock as Under-Secretary-General (USG) in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and as Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC). Lowcock has 30 years of experience as a leader in humanitarian crisis management across the globe, and as a strategic leader in the international [...]
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to disclose the draft of the so-called “Muslim ban” executive ored. Arab American Civil Rights League v. Trump, is a case before the court arguing that the immigration ban initially proposed by the administration had discriminatory intent against Muslims. [...]
The President of Congo’s Commission Electorale Nationale Indépendante (CENI) , Corneille Nangaa on Friday warned the presidential election may be postponed due to sectarian violence. Nangaa make the remarks during an interview with Reuters . He expressed concern about the violence in the region and the militia’s interference with the election process. Nangaa and CENI [...]
The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission of Thailand on Thursday ordered Facebook Thailand to remove a video of King Maha Vajiralongkorn and other posts by Tuesday or face legal action. The video claims to show the king in casual dress showing his tattoos and walking with a woman. The video was deemed illicit by the [...]
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday signed the Fairbanks Declaration to affirm protection of the arctic climate. The move was a part of the 10th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting , with goals to maintain peace, stability and constructive cooperation in the Arctic. The signing of the declaration included reaffirming the threat of climate [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Royal F. Oakes of discusses the recent firing of FBI Director James Comey and its implications for wider investigations into the Trump administration… The Comey affair is shaping up to be a brass knuckle, brazenly partisan showdown that could turn into a Trump administration Armageddon. The two sides couldn’t be more different. [...]
