The US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Louisiana on Wednesday announced an investigation into the recent police killing of a black man, Alton Sterling, which was recorded on video. Sterling was shot and killed by police officers Tuesday outside a Baton Rouge convenience store where he was selling CDs. US Attorney Walt Green [...]
The Obama administration imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Wednesday, taking the unusual step of placing the country’s leader Kim Jong Un and 10 other officials on a blacklist for human rights abusers. The sanctions would bar US individuals and businesses from dealing with Kim and the other officials named and would freeze any [...]
The findings of the seven-year inquiry, led by Sir John Chilcot , into Britain’s role in the invasion of Iraq were delivered on Wednesday in the form of a scathing verdict against former prime minister Tony Blair and his administration, which stated that the war was based on “flawed intelligence and assessments” and had been [...]
Britain’s leading public-interest law firm as well as several experience litigators are drafting a legal challenge to the EU referendum . The hope is to stop Britain’s exit from the EU, or, at the very least, create a parliamentary debate on the referendum. The action is expected to head to the country’s Supreme Court , [...]
FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday that he is not recommending that the Department of Justice bring criminal charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Comey stated that while Clinton was “extremely careless” with her use of private e-mail servers, there is not clear evidence that the secretary or her colleagues intended to violate [...]
Armed opposition groups are committing war crimes in Syria, Amnesty International (AI) said in a report Tuesday. While the report acknowledges that many violations of international human rights law have been committed by government forces, it focuses on the heavy reliance on the “rule of the gun” by opposition forces in quasi-government forms. It covers [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Tuesday condemned Sunday’s suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq. Stating that “the sheer unrestrained viciousness of these people defies belief,” Zeid spoke strongly against the taking of innocent lives by terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State (IS). Zeid, however, advised those fighting against the [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein warned Monday of the deteriorating human rights situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) . “While 2016 began on a positive note, with the successful holding of elections in February, recent events in Bangui and in several other parts of the country make me fear [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Cooper, a former DC public defender discusses how California’s Proposition 66 will fail to reform California’s fractured death penalty system… “Californians for Death Penalty Savings and Reform“—an advocacy group spearheaded by district attorneys and several family members of murder victims—has collected enough signatures to qualify the “Death Penalty Reform and Savings [...]
The First Intermediate People’s Court of Tianjin near Beijing jailed Ling Jihua, a top aide to former China president Hu Jintao , and sentenced him to life after finding him guilty of taking bribes, illegally obtaining state secrets and abuse of power. This sentence comes after the Supreme People’s Court of China’s confirmation in April [...]
