A Chinese office manager has become the first man to be imprisoned under a Chinese sexual harassment law passed in 2005, according to reports on Wednesday. Previous cases brought under the law have been settled through civil litigation. Women's rights advocates say that sexual harassment has long been a prevalent problem in China , but [...]
Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri and Mark A. Berman v. Commander John Pucciarelli, et al., US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, July 15, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
The Massachusetts Senate passed a bill Tuesday to repeal a 1913 law which bars people from marrying in Massachusetts if their own state would not recognize such a union. The statute gained attention because it would have the effect of preventing most out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying in Massachusetts. Proponents of same-sex marriage, including MassEquality.org [...]
Canada transferred US Army deserter Robin Long back to US custody Tuesday following a decision by the Federal Court of Canada denying his asylum request. Long is the first of an estimated 200 US military personnel avoiding deployment in Canada to be returned to the US. Last week the court allowed another soldier, Joshua Key, [...]
Lawyers for former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Wednesday filed an application for his parole from the Krasnokamensk penal colony in Siberia. Khodorkovsky headed the now-bankrupt OAO Yukos Oil Co. and was sent to prison by the Russian government in 2005 to serve an eight-year sentence for fraud and tax evasion . Last month Khodorkovsky's [...]
Thomas Hammarberg : "I have been in close contact with the Italian authorities ever since I was informed of violent anti-Roma manifestations in Italy and of the Italian government's decision to adopt new legislative measures concerning, among others, stricter immigration control, Roma and Sinti. On 19 and 20 June, I paid a visit to Italy [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, sitting en banc, issued a per curiam opinion Tuesday, finding by a vote of 5-4 that if the government's allegations against Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri are true, the President is empowered by Congress to hold al-Marri in a military prison without charge as an enemy combatant, [...]
The Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey on Tuesday struck down two municipal ordinances that prohibited convicted sex offenders (CSOs) from living near schools, parks, playgrounds and day care centers. The Appellate Division ruled that New Jersey's statewide sex offender registry program, known as Megan's Law , preempted the local ordinances and [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday asked a judge at the US District Court for the District of Columbia to deny a motion by Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan to stay his trial, now scheduled to begin July 21. Hamdan's lawyers argued earlier this month that the trial should be postponed until [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist David Scheffer, former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001), now at Northwestern University School of Law, reflects on the tenth anniversary of the conclusion of negotiations on the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court ICC), in which he played a central role…
