Internet services were returned to two areas of Cameroon with English-speaking populations on Friday following a three-month shutdown, according to a state-run radio report. President Paul Biya had restricted Internet services in Northwest and Southwest regions of the country following violent, sometimes deadly , confrontations between English-speaking protesters and government officials in the mostly French-speaking [...]
Dutch timber trader Guus Kouwenhoven was sentenced to 19 years in prison by an appellate court in Den Bosch on Friday after he was found guilty of smuggling weapons into Liberia during that country’s civil war. Kouwenhoven, who has denied wrongdoing, was convicted of violating an embargo related to the arms-dealing in 2006. That conviction [...]
The UK Ministry of Justice announced on Friday plans to separate 28 “dangerous extremist” from the main stream prison population by placing them in one of three separation centers. Prisoners who are subject to separation are those who were involved in planning terrorism or are considered to pose a risk to national security. Prime Minister [...]
Spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) , Babar Baloch, said in a press release on Friday that over 11,000 refugees from the Kasai province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have recently escaped to Angola due to violence in their province. Refugees say that they are targeted by militia groups who believe [...]
Seven human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch , on Thursday denounced the government of Equatorial Guinea for arresting Enrique Asumu and Alfredo Okenve, activists who lead the Center for Development Studies and Initiatives (CEID) . Government authorities barred the organization’s president, Asumu, from boarding a plane. When Asumu and vice-president Okenve met with the [...]
A special federal judicial panel in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas on Thursday ruled that the redistricting plan adopted by the Texas legislature was drawn to deliberately diminish the influence of the growing Latino voting population. The panel, comprised of US District Judges Xavier Rodriguez and Orlando Garcia and 5th [...]
The state of Arkansas on Thursday held the execution of Ledell Lee, the first in the state in 11 years. The sentence was carried out following the denial earlier that day by the US Supreme Court of a petition to stay the execution. The court also denied petitions and the writ of certiorari filed on [...]
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday formally approved the dismissal of over 21,000 drug convictions that were deemed to be “tainted” by a former state chemist’s misconduct. This action has been deemed “the single largest dismissal of convictions in U.S. history. The action by the court comes after seven district attorneys submitted 21,587 cases [...]
The Russia Supreme Court on Thursday granted the Russian government’s request to ban the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious group. The court ruled that the group is an “extremist organization” and outlawed their activities in the entire country. As part of the decision, the group’s assets will be seized and turned into state property. The Russian Ministry [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist David M. Crane, Syracuse University College of Law, discusses the necessity of use of force in the Syrian conflict… The cornerstone to the UN paradigm is to settle disputes peacefully, using force only as a last resort. Yet, restoring international peace and security sometimes requires a hardened approach to ensure that peace [...]
