Groups of activists in Vietnam were detained Sunday while protesting China’s rejection of the international ruling regarding the South China Sea. The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) issued the ruling on Tuesday, finding that between the Philippines and China, the parties in the lawsuit, China has no legal claim for large portions of the South [...]
According to a judicial source, four men believed to be linked to Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian who killed 84 people as he drove a truck into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice, have been arrested . One of the men was arrested on Thursday, while the three others were arrested overnight on Friday. Lahouaiej-Bouhlel’s [...]
The National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska voted on Friday to hold a referendum within its territory on September 25 to decide whether to set its Statehood Day on January 9. The date coincides with an Orthodox Christian holiday and is therefore seen to exclude Roman Catholic Croatians and Bosnian Muslims who also live [...]
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Saturday reported 265 dead, 1,440 wounded and 2,839 soldiers arrested in the attempted coup on Friday. The coup began when military forces seized key areas of the country and control of state-run television stations. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the followers of exiled Muslim cleric in Pennsylvania, Fethullah [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday concluded that sound levels approved by the Obama administration violate the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA). The MMPA prohibits people from harassing, feeding, hunting, capturing, collecting or killing any marine mammal or a part of a marine mammal. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Allen Hammond of the Santa Clara Law School discusses a recent net neutrality ruling and what it means for the future of the internet… After three tries before the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has succeeded in applying net neutrality rules to Internet Service [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Andreas Kuersten, Law Clerk for the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (CAAF), discusses racial bias’ impact on black individuals, both in court and on the bench… The personification of justice is a blindfolded woman holding a scale and a sword. She cannot see an individual’s wealth, social stature, education, [...]
Former Serbian paramilitary commander Dragan Vasiljkovic, also known Daniel Sneddon, has pleaded not guilty to the charges of “war crimes” brought against him. The 61-year old Vasiljkovic will face a court in the port of Split in Croatia later this year. The charges levied against him include the torture and mass murder of Croats, including [...]
The House Intelligence Committee on Friday released declassified “28-pages” , detailing connections between Saudi Arabia and 9/11 hijackers. Whether “28-pages” should be released was a hotly debated matter, spanning years as victims’ families and lawmakers had pressed for the report to be released. Some calling for the release of the report believed that the US [...]
An 18-person UN human rights panel called on Kuwait Friday to amend its compulsory DNA testing law. The law, a counter-terrorism measure put in place by Kuwait’s parliament in 2015, facilitated a DNA database of citizens and residents of Kuwait, and imposes a one-year sentence to anyone who refuses to provide their DNA. The panel [...]
