An Egyptian court on Saturday confirmed former president Mohamed Morsi’s 20-year prison sentence. The prison sentence arose from a conviction for the killings of protesters during 2012 demonstrations. In addition to Morsi, several other senior figures from the Muslim Brotherhood were charged in April 2015 for kidnapping, torture, and the killings of the protesters. Morsi [...]
Trustees of Haji Ali Dargah , a mosque in Mumbai, India, told the country’s Supreme Court on Monday that they will begin to allow women to enter the inner sanctum of the mausoleum. The court permitted the mosque a period of four weeks to make the change, which the trust says is needed for structural [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized South Africa Monday for its decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The rights group called the move a blow to the country’s post-apartheid reconstruction and the country’s stated commitment to justice for atrocity crimes. Richard Dicker, International Justice director at HRW said: South Africa’s withdrawal would [...]
The Venezuelan National Assembly ] declared on Sunday that there is a breakdown of constitutional order and that the government had staged a coup by blocking an attempt to remove President Nicolás Maduro from power. The movement was blocked when the president’s supporters stormed the chamber where the emergency legislative session was taking place. The [...]
The Iraq Parliament approved a law “Forbidding the import, manufacture and sale of all kinds of alcohol drinks.” Until this time, alcohol has been made readily available in shops, bars, restaurant and hotels in Baghdad and in some of the provinces of Iraq, and it was not unusual for young people in Baghdad to be [...]
Abu Wa’el Dhiab, a Syrian former Guantanamo Bay detainee, on Saturday ended his 68-day hunger strike. Dhiab was among a number of former detainees who were resettled in Uruguay in an effort to close down the detention center . He began a hunger strike in an effort to be unified with friends and family. As [...]
Airbnb filed suit against New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and New York City Mayor Mayor Bill de Blasio in federal court on Friday challenging Senate Bill S6340A, signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo hours earlier, which would impose heavy fines on Airbnb hosts (i.e. homeowners) who break local housing regulations. S6340A serves as an amendment [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that former detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison may continue their torture lawsuit against civilian military contractors. Four former prisoners allege that they were subjected to various forms of torture at the hands of CACI Premier Technology contractors. The case had previously been dismissed [...]
UN experts investigating the October 8 attack on a packed funeral hall in the Yemeni capital, which is currently under rebel control, accused the Saudi coalition Thursday of violating international humanitarian law. According to the experts’ report, “the attack resulted in disproportionately higher numbers of civilian casualties, when compared to military casualties, and that this [...]
A federal judge on Friday ordered a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor accused of stealing classified government documents to remain in custody while awaiting trial. The judge said of the former NSA agent, Harold Martin III, “I find by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant does pose a risk of flight.” The [...]
