The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in a press briefing on Friday welcomed the presentation of a draft bill on constitutional justice reforms in the Guatemala legislature. Stating that this “represents an historic opportunity to consolidate the remarkable progress the country has achieved in the fight against impunity and corruption [...]
Uruguay’s Foreign Minister, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, on Friday urged a former Guantanamo prisoner, Jihad Diyab, to call off his hunger strike, stating that Uruguay is attempting to transfer him to another country. Diyab is a Syrian national who was held for 12 years in Guantanamo without being formally charged and was released in 2014 along [...]
US District Judge Amos L. Mazzant III on Friday conditionally dismissed the Securities and Exchange Commission‘s (SEC) suit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton . The SEC alleged that Paxton misled investors in Servergy, Inc. , a business purporting to make a new computer network server. Paxton recruited friends and business professionals to invest a [...]
US District Judge Miranda Du on Friday issued a preliminary injunction in favor of the Pyramid Lake and Walker River Paiute Native American tribes in their challenge to Nevada’s voting procedure. The tribes alleged Washoe County, Mineral County and the Nevada Secretary of State were in violation of the Voting Rights Act by failing to [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Friday reinstated a $120 million jury award owed to Apple by Samsung in a prolonged patent infringement case involving the companies’ competing smartphones. In 2014 a federal jury found Samsung guilty of infringing numerous Apple smartphone patents such as the iPhone’s slide-to-lock, autocorrect, and online [...]
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Friday issued reports on Nauru, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, New Zealand, South Africa and Suriname following a committee session held last month. The committee’s independent experts commended the nations’ efforts to push laws and treaties intended to protect children’s rights and address human rights violations [...]
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday called for an investigation of alleged war crimes committed against Syrian civilians by both Russia and the Syrian regime. The secretary made the plea ahead of his meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault . Kerry’s statement comes the morning after yet another deadly Russian attack on [...]
Vice President Gaston Sindimwo of Burundi on Thursday announced the country’s decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) , stating that his government is “ready to face the consequences.” This decision comes in the wake of the ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announcing six months ago that she plans to investigate the ongoing violence [...]
A Canadian Superior Court justice has ruled that a decision to deny a woman’s case in court because she refused to remove her hijab goes against the fundamental principles of Canadian law. Rania El-Alloul was told last year that her case regarding automobile insurance would not go forward so long as she was wearing her [...]
A German court says the trial of a former medic who served at the Auschwitz death camp must be postponed due to complaints. The Neubrandenburg state court has received numerous complaints that the judge and others in the court are biased, and the trial has been held up as prosecutors have been attempting to remove [...]
