JURIST Guest Columnists Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham and Judge William S. Sessions say that the recent ruling by the US Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush not only restores the delicate balance of power between the three branches of government but ensures a meaningful judicial review of detentions that can separate detainees who are dangerous [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Tamir Moustafa of Simon Fraser University in Canada says that although the Egyptian government's recent extension of the emergency law may be the last in a string of renewals over the past half-century, this does not have pro-democracy activists dancing in the streets… Late last month, the Egyptian government extended its emergency [...]
Burundi military officials Wednesday announced the arrests of nearly 100 members of the Forces for National Liberation (FNL) , a Hutu separatist group engaged in an ongoing conflict with the Burundian government. The FNL denied accusations that the arrests were a government response to the alleged recruitment of new fighters. Those arrested were said to [...]
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that the state had settled with two law firms accused of defrauding the state pension system. For years the two firms, Girvin & Ferlazzo, PC and Hogan, Sarzynski, Lynch, Surowka & DeWind LLP , had arranged for some of their attorneys to be placed on the employment [...]
Bulgarian officials said Wednesday that they had frozen 10 National Road Infrastructure Fund projects worth almost 90 million euros ($137 million) in order to avoid possible sanctions for using the money inappropriately. The funds are mostly grants from the Phare program , an EU policy designed to aid countries' development before their accession to the [...]
US President George W. Bush vetoed the new Farm Bill for the second time on Wednesday, saying that the proposed legislation was fiscally irresponsible. The original version of the text sent to Bush for signature last month inadvertently omitted a section providing for foreign food aid. Bill supporters had said they would submit the bill [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) unanimously ruled Tuesday that Armenia's National Television and Radio Commission had improperly denied a broadcast license to the A1 Plus television station. ECHR found that the denial violated Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights , which protects freedom of expression. A1 Plus, which is frequently [...]
The Swedish parliament Tuesday rejected a proposed warrantless wiretap law that would have given the National Defence Radio Establishment wide leeway to eavesdrop on international telephone and electronic communications passing through the country. The government said that the law was necessary for national security, but the measure was vigorously protested by journalists, civil libertarians, and [...]
Carrie Cecil, Pitt Law '10, files from Kiev: Ukraine is a democracy still in its infancy. Independence from the former Soviet Union was declared in 1991, and the Constitution was adopted in 1996. After declaring independence, Ukraine struggled to decide whether legally the country would adopt policies bringing it closer to the rest of Europe [...]
Russian authorities have formally charged three men in the killing of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya . Sergey Khadzhikurbanov, and brothers Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, all from Chechnya , were among those arrested last August in connection with the investigation into Politkovskaya's murder. Russian investigators have also initiated a search for a third Makhmudov brother, Rustam, [...]
