A court in Chile on Saturday rejected a war crimes lawsuit filed against three justices on the Israeli Supreme Court who authorized the construction of a security wall for the Israeli settlements in the West bank. The lawsuit was filed in Chile under universal jurisdiction principles because the impacted landowners lived in Chile. However the [...]
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Friday urged Argentina to release activist Milagro Sala who has been detained since the beginning of the year in the Jujuy province. Milagro Sala , an elected parliamentarian, was detained in January after participating in protests. The commission held that the detainment violates international rights, which uphold [...]
South Korea’s three opposition parties on Saturday introduced a joint impeachment motion against embattled President Park Geun-hye. The motion , which will be voted on this upcoming Friday, comes just days after Park offered to resign if parliament could come to an agreement on the transition. Some ruling party legislators threatened to support impeachment proceedings [...]
The Supreme Court of Iran on Saturday affirmed the death sentence of 42-year-old Iranian oil billionare Babak Zanjani, according the country’s state-run news agency . Zanjani was arrested in December 2013 on charges of embezzlement, money laundering and fraud, and sentenced in March of this year. Zanjani was charged with owing the government USD $2.7 [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Virginia Brown Keyder, the State University of New York at Binghamton, discusses IP laws in the US and EU… If any legal concepts may be said to characterize our age, intellectual property (IP) and secrecy would be likely candidates. In theory, these are polar opposites—representing disclosure (for the benefit of the public) [...]
The Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) on Thursday suggested to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson that the government should move away from housing immigration detainees in private prisons. At the behest of Johnson, an HSAC subcommittee reviewed such use of prisons and developed a report concluding that private prisons are the only realistic way to [...]
President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters filed legal challenges in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin last week, in an effort to prevent recounts in those three states. Green Party candidate Jill Stein initiated the controversial recount efforts last month. On Thursday Trump’s lawyers filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania challenging the recount, stating in the complaint that [...]
South American trade bloc Mercosur on Friday notified Venezuela that the country will be suspended in light of its membership requirement violations. Leading member countries Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay reportedly determined that Venezuela, a member since 2012, had not met the organization’s economic, trade and immigration standards and had given the country a December [...]
The US Senate voted unanimously on Thursday to pass the Iran Sanctions Act , which would extend economic sanctions against companies doing business with Iran for 10 more years. Originally approved in 1996, the extended bill was passed onto the Senate with only one vote against it from the House in November. Prior to Senate [...]
The prosecutor for the Special Department for War Crimes on Friday indicted six former officials in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) for crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian War. The men were members of a so-called “Crisis Staff,” which has been accused of committing genocide against ethnic groups during the Bosnian War. Their group operated [...]
