The US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the online community craigslist is not liable for third-party postings to its website which attempt to discriminate against people seeking housing. The plaintiffs in the case, the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. (CLCCRUL) had alleged that some postings on craigslist violated [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the new Pakistani parliament should prosecute Pervez Musharraf for crimes committed against the constitution and people of Pakistan, and resist any pressure to pardon him directly or indirectly by law or by promise of safe passage into exile, perhaps in the United [...]
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that a bid by the country's top prosecutor to disband his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and to bar him and President Abdullah Gul from political office was a "step against the national will." Chief prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya petitioned the Constitutional Court of Turkey on Friday [...]
The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Friday that an alleged top al-Qaeda operative has been transferred from CIA custody to Guantanamo Bay. Muhammad Rahim, a former messenger for Osama bin Laden said to have helped the terrorist leader escape from Afghanistan in 2001, was captured by local authorities in Pakistan last summer and turned [...]
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey told an audience in London Friday that he hopes those accused in the 9/11 attacks do not receive the death penalty if found guilty because it would make them martyrs. Mukasey made the comment in response to a question after a speech at the London School of Economics on Anglo-American [...]
Hundreds of Serbs took control of a UN courthouse in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica Friday in an apparent protest against Kosovo's recent declaration of independence from Serbia. The group initially demanded a deal with UN authorities, but it was not immediately clear what the details of those demands were. The regional UN representative [...]
The Norwegian government brought forward a draft law Friday that would grant same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples, replacing a 1993 law which merely granted gay couples the right to enter into civil unions. The proposal would allow gay couples to be married in a church but does not require a minister or [...]
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom vetoed a bill Friday that would have restored the country's death penalty . Decree 06-2008 would also have given Colom, sworn into office just last month the power to decide whether to grant clemency and commute the sentences of the 34 inmates currently on death row to 50 years in prison, [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and British human and medical rights activist Dr. David Nicholl, a neurologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK, says that Amnesty International's new report into the rendition and torture of one-time "ghost detainee" Khaled al-Maqtari by the CIA highlights yet again the complicity of doctors in the US detention and rendition [...]
United States of America v. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, United States Military Commission, March 14, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
