The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) urged Iran Tuesday to ban the use of the death penalty against juvenile offenders. The OHCHR statement comes as two Iranian men, identified by Reuters as Mohammad Fadaaee and Amir Amrollahi, are set to be executed for crimes committed while juveniles. The OHCHR also [...]
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is holding hearings this week in a border dispute between Romania and Ukraine over resource rights to the Black Sea. Oral arguments in the case began Tuesday, when Bogdan Aurescu, director general of Romania's Foreign Affairs Ministry, argued that the Ukrainian government was unfairly trying to use tiny Serpent [...]
The Iraqi government announced plans Wednesday to rebuild Abu Ghraib prison , where US military guards were photographed abusing Iraqi prisoners . Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said the Iraqi Cabinet had approved the Defense Ministry's proposal to reopen the prison west of Baghdad. US authorities emptied Abu Ghraib of its final 2,000 prisoners and returned [...]
Defence of Human Rights Chairman Khalid Khawaja petitioned the Islamabad High Court on Wednesday to register abduction charges against Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf and several other high-ranking officials from his administration. The petition alleges that the officials instituted false proceedings against Khawaja, leading to his abduction and detention without cause. Khawaja has publicly dedicated [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a non-employee consultant may be held liable for misstatements or omissions in periodic financial reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) . The ruling affirms a district court decision granting summary judgment in a civil enforcement action against Jon R. [...]
US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has released Arab activist Sami Al-Arian after five years in federal custody. The former University of South Florida (USF) computer science professor will remain under electronic monitoring pending trial on contempt charges for refusing to testify before grand juries that were investigating a group of Islamic charities. ICE released [...]
The Mauritanian Parliament has elected eight of its members to a High Court set to try deposed President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi on corruption charges. Legislators chose four National Assembly members and four senators by secret ballot during a public session on Tuesday. The US State Department has stated it only recognizes Abdallahi's government , [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report on Tuesday concluding that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales violated DOJ regulations by storing highly classified documents in unsecure locations. Written by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine , the report noted that although Gonzales' conduct might have violated federal criminal [...]
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has placed senior officials of the intelligence service Abin on suspension pending investigations of a report that its agents wiretapped a variety of high-ranking government figures . Silva removed Abin Director Paulo Lacerda and Deputy Director Jose Milton Campana on Monday after meeting with the defense and justice [...]
Thailand's Election Commission on Tuesday voted to recommend that the country's ruling People's Power Party (PPP) be disbanded for election fraud allegedly committed by one of its former top officers. The five-member panel voted unanimously after finding that the party was complicit in a vote-buying scheme devised by former deputy leader Yongyuth Tiyapairat. Yongyuth was [...]
