Human Rights Watch (HRW) sent an open letter Monday to US Attorney General Eric Holder to "express strong support for opening a criminal investigation into abusive interrogation practices by the US government since the attacks of September 11, 2001." The letter appears to come in response to last week's Newsweek report indicating that Holder was [...]
A report on the closure of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay , due to be presented to US President Barack Obama Tuesday, will be delayed for six months, officials reported Monday. The government task force, assigned to create a new policy on terrorism detainees, missed its Tuesday deadline for a full report, instead presenting [...]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday approved amendments to the country's law that regulates non-governmental organizations (NGOs), loosening and simplifying registration requirements for the groups. The amendments eased reporting and auditing requirements on the groups and eliminated a requirement that the groups prove they are not a threat to the Russian state or identity. The [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Anand Grover, UN Special Rapporteur on health and founder of the Lawyers Collective human rights advocacy group describes his group's decade-long fight to end discrimination based on sexual orientation in India, culminating in his recent Delhi High Court victory against India's colonial-era anti-sodomy law…. On the evening of Wednesday, 1st July, while [...]
Chief judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia Royce Lamberth found Monday that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) committed fraud in its efforts to keep documents related to eavesdropping allegations a secret. The judge ruled that the CIA must unseal more than 200 documents relating to the case. Lamberth is also [...]
Mehmet Tohti : "Horrible video footage posted on the internet regarding the July 5th Urumqi massacre has brought some international attention and at the same time revealed the bitter reality that can be summarized as miserable Uyghurs, cruel Chinese and a generally uninterested world when it comes to the reaction to this tragedy that resulted [...]
The Supreme Court of India refused Monday to suspend a lower court decision declaring India's anti-sodomy law unconstitutional while it hears an appeal. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court accepted a petition challenging the decision by the Delhi High Court , which found that Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code , outlawing "carnal conduct [...]
Horn v. Huddle, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, July 20, 2009 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here.
The Criminal Chamber of Peru's Supreme Court on Monday convicted former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori on corruption charges and sentenced him to seven-and-a-half years in prison. Fujimori was accused of paying former Peruvian Intelligence Director Vladimiro Montesino $15 million to resign in 2000 in the midst of the scandal that ultimately resulted in Fujimori's arrest [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday ordered the suppression of all out-of-court statements made by Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad that may have been elicited through torture. Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) chose not to oppose a motion to suppress the statements filed by Jawad's lawyers. [...]
