The Iranian government is engaged in systematic human rights abuses, an Iranian human rights group said in an annual report released Sunday. The Defenders of Human Rights Centre, a group founded and headed by 2003 Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi , condemned the government for continued harassment and intimidation of dissidents, students, reporters, labor activists [...]
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua told AFP Sunday that he would resign if the Supreme Court of Nigeria invalidated his victory in the disputed 2007 presidential election . In March, Nigerian opposition leader and presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari asked the Supreme Court to review a February decision by the country's election tribunal to uphold the results [...]
Israel's Chief Rabbinate , the body that authorizes and conducts marriages in the country, should allow marriages between people of different religious faiths, Israeli Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann said Sunday. The Chief Rabbinate currently requires all marriages to adhere to Orthodox Jewish law and traditionally does not allow members of different religious faiths to marry. [...]
The US Supreme Court handed down four decisions Monday, including United States v. Rodriquez , where the Court ruled that for purposes of increasing a sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) a conviction qualifies as a predicate serious drug offense even when the crime is made punishable by a 10-year prison term only [...]
Department of Revenue of Kentucky v. Davis, US Supreme Court, May 19, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
United States v. Ressam, US Supreme Court, May 19, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
United States v. Williams, US Supreme Court, May 19, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
United States v. Rodriquez, US Supreme Court, May 19, 2008 . Read the text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A Bangladeshi anti-corruption court indicted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday on charges that she received approximately $440,000 in illegal kickbacks on a power-plant deal while in office between 1996 and 2001. If found guilty of the accusations, made in 2007 by the country's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) , Hasina could face up to 14 years [...]
The Vietnamese government Saturday deported Nguyen Quoc Quan , a US citizen sentenced for planning to distribute pro-democracy pamphlets in the communist country. He received a six-month jail term Tuesday, but was credited for time he spent awaiting trial. Quan was one of several arrested in November 2007 for planning to give out literature on [...]
