Kenya's Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) decided Tuesday not to grant women equal marriage rights to men in the new constitution. References to civil society, religious groups, and rights of gays were also omitted as the PSC reviewed recommendations from the Committee of Experts and decided which to include. The PSC, which is composed of members [...]
The federal trial of Aafia Siddiqui , a Pakistani woman with alleged ties to al Qaeda, began Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York . Siddiqui is charged with assault and the attempted murder of a US officer after allegedly opening fire on agents at the Afghan detention facility [...]
UK-based human rights group Reprieve issued a statement Tuesday suggesting that the Obama administration has suppressed information relating to the investigation of three 2006 Guantanamo Bay suicides and urging further inquiries. The statement comes in response to an article for an upcoming issue of Harper's Magazine , in which former guards at the prison indicate [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Barry A. Feinstein, a Senior Lecturer in International Law at the School of Law of Netanya Academic College in Israel, says that the Israel navy’s actions against the Gaza Flotilla complied with international law, despite the United Nations Human Rights Council’s report to the contrary, in the first of a two-part [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists Moeen Cheema of Australian National University College of Law and Shahzad Akbar, an advocate practicing at the Lahore High Court in Pakistan, say that liberal lawyers and rights advocates historically supportive of the superior courts’ public interest and fundamental rights jurisprudence are among the staunchest objectors to the Supreme Court of Pakistan's [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday that 22 individuals were indicted for violating federal bribery laws in an effort to obtain foreign business contracts. An undercover operation conducted by the FBI found violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) , which prohibits the bribing of foreign officials for the purpose of [...]
David R. Irvine and Virginia E. Sloan : "In the aftermath of the attempted Christmas Day bombing, some want to shift the discussion from the best way to close Guantanamo – an objective first announced by President Bush – to instituting Guantanamo-like policies in the United States. Critics of the Obama administration's decision to try [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two cases. In the combined cases of Mac's Shell Service, Inc. v. Shell Oil Products Co. and Shell Oil Products Co. v. Mac's Shell Service, Inc., the Court heard arguments on whether a service station operator can bring a constructive termination action under the Petroleum Marketing [...]
The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 telephone records between 2002 and 2006 by claiming the phone calls being made related to possible terrorism emergencies, according to a Washington Post report Tuesday. According to the article, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) will soon release a report that is expected [...]
Slovakia's Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday that the government will accept three inmates from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The ministry stated that this was a "gesture of solidarity" in support of President Barack Obama's foreign policy. The US Embassy in Slovakia released a statement stating: The United States welcomes the announcement today by Slovak officials [...]
