The defense case for former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma opened on Monday with testimony from Zuma about his role in the African National Congress (ANC) . Zuma's motion to dismiss the rape charges that he faces was refused by a High Court Judge Willem van der Merwe last week. Zuma testified about his [...]
Defense lawyers begin their case this week in the trial of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling . The prosecution's case ended last week with US District Judge Sim Lake dismissing four counts against the two, leaving 28 remaining counts against Skilling and six against Lay. The defense case against the fraud and [...]
Two men who are part of a class-action lawsuit against the US government have claimed that they were abused by dogs while being held in a New Jersey jail after the Sept. 11 attacks . Ibrahim Turkmen and Akhil Sachdeva were arrested after Sept. 11 under terrorism suspicions and detained at the Passaic County Jail [...]
French union leaders and student groups hinted Monday that they might be willing to re-enter negotiations with the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin a day after the law establishing the so-called First Employment Contract (CPE) took effect on its publication in France's official gazette . President Jacques Chirac signed the controversial statute, as [...]
The United Kingdom launched its first non-police law enforcement agency Monday – the Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) – modeled after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the US. SOCA will have 5,000 employees on staff and its main goals are to tackle organized criminal gangs such as drug traffickers, people-smugglers who exploit illegal [...]
JURIST Special Guest Columnist John Pace, former Secretary of the UN Commission on Human Rights, says that the creation of a new Human Rights Council to replace the Commission could be a major step forward for human rights protection, but the Commission should not painted as a "discredited" institution and proponents of the new Council [...]
A spiritual advisor for former Liberian President Charles Taylor has said that Nigerian security forces led Taylor to the border of Cameroon to facilitate his escape, but then returned to arrest him at gunpoint. Nigerian officials have denied such allegations. Taylor has been charged with 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity and [...]
US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) said Sunday that he wants the full Senate to vote on an immigration bill by the end of the week, detailing three areas that must be addressed : border control, employer enforcement, and a guest worker program. Frist has criticized provisions in the immigration bill passed by the [...]
Members of the private Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have begun a new month-long campaign in US states bordering Mexico and Canada to raise public awareness of illegal immigration. Minuteman volunteers watch the borders with binoculars and are instructed to contact government Border Control officials to report illegal immigrants. The campaign comes in the midst of [...]
Loi no 2006-396 du 31 mars 2006 pour l'egalité des chances , Journal Officiel de la Republique Francaise, April 2, 2006. CPE excerpt: Article 8 I. − Les employeurs qui entrent dans le champ du premier alinéa de l'article L. 131-2 du code du travail peuvent conclure, pour toute nouvelle embauche d'un jeune âgé de [...]
