Italian voters on Sunday rejected proposals to reform the Italian constitution. The referendum proposed changes that would have amended the structure of parliament and concentrated more power in the centralized government as opposed to the Senate, the upper house of parliament. The proposals had been brought by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi , who claimed that [...]
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court on Saturday upheld a law that effectively bans protests. The law requires individuals seeking to protest to inform the interior ministry, at least three days prior, of any public gathering with more than 10 people, allows security forces to break up unapproved protests with water cannons, tear gas, and birdshot, and [...]
Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein said Sunday that she and her campaign intend to “escalate” her recount efforts in Pennsylvania by bringing a lawsuit in federal court. Stein had filed suit in the state court, but the Pennsylvania case law requires voters seeking a recount to pay a $1 million bond. Stein and her [...]
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 [...]
