Faisal Naseem Chaudhry : "All was not well on the morning of December 27, yet it was not so unwell either. Elections were to take place on 8th of January. Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif and other politicians were on a move round-the-clock as part of their election campaign. The lawyers' boycott of judges who had [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Rebecca Zietlow of the University of Toledo College of Law says that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a dreamer but a doer whose activism helped bring about the civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s… Senator Hillary Clinton has been criticized for her recent remark that Martin Luther King’s “dream” [...]
A Turkish court has reordered telecom providers in the country to block access to popular video-sharing website YouTube . Reports surfacing in the Turkish media on Sunday suggest that the ban, originally reimposed Thursday, was a response to video clips insulting the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk . Users trying to access YouTube [...]
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has approved changes to the country's restrictive Public Order and Security Act ahead of upcoming presidential elections, Zimbabwean state media reported Saturday. The law formerly prohibited public political gatherings without prior police approval and if police turned down a party's application to hold a rally, the party could only appeal its [...]
Pakistani police have arrested two suspects in connection with the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto , officials said on Saturday. Aitzaz Shah and Sher Zaman were detained in the town of Dera Ismail Khan on the Afghan border, and were found in possession of explosives according to local reports. Shah, a teenager, told [...]
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday cited executive privilege in denying congressional requests for certain documents relating to the agency's decision to deny California a waiver from new auto-emissions standards. The waiver would have allowed California and 16 other states following its lead to impose stricter greenhouse emissions standards on cars and light [...]
Canadian Foreign Minster Maxime Bernier said Saturday that the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade will remove the US from an internal document that lists countries that employ interrogation methods that amount to torture and where prisoners risk being tortured. The document was part of a manual given to Canadian diplomats in a [...]
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories John Dugard said Friday that Israel's recent attack on a Hamas government office in Gaza which injured around 50 civilians and the killings of some 40 Palestinians in the past week should be considered war crimes , noting that the attacks violate the Fourth Geneva [...]
A Belarus court on Friday sentenced a former newspaper editor to three years in prison for reprinting cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad . Alexander Sdvizhkov was the deputy editor of Zhoda, a small Belarus newspaper, when in February 2006 it republished the cartoons that had originally appeared in a Danish newspaper in 2005 and sparked [...]
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr on Friday argued that he was a child soldier when he was captured in Afghanistan and that the US military commission responsible for trying him lacks jurisdiction over the case. In the motion, filed with US military judge Col. Peter Brownback, Khadr's lawyers asked for the case to [...]
