Judge Juan Pablo Gonzalez of Spain’s National Court charged five suspected leaders of the Basque separatist movement Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) Tuesday with crimes against humanity for their participation in the 2004 attacks that left 12 people dead. Specifically, the group is alleged to have participated in kidnapping and murder, including the bombing of a [...]
Amnesty International (AI) has called Tuesday for an independent investigation into possible war crimes surrounding the destruction of a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders in Yemen. According to local sources, the Saudi-Arabia led coalition committed up to six consecutive airstrikes Monday on Haydan Hospital, located in the Haydan Directorate in Sa’da governorate of Northern [...]
The USSenate on Tuesday passed legislation aimed at improving cyber-security defenses in the US. The Cybersecurity Sharing Information Act of 2015 encourages private entities “to monitor, and operate defensive measures,” which will allow them “to detect, prevent, or mitigate cybersecurity threats or security vulnerabilities on: (1) their own information systems; and (2) with authorization and [...]
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday passed a handgun storage law requiring owners to either lock guns away or have the trigger disabled when not in reach. The law is “aimed at curbing suicides and accidental shootings,” and it is anticipated that the law will “keep guns safe during robberies” as they are very [...]
The African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan (AUCISS) released its report on the South Sudan conflict Tuesday concluding that both sides committed war crimes. The commission found that the South Sudan government and rebels committed war crimes and crimes against humanity including killings, rape and sexual violence, and targeting of humanitarian workers. Genocide [...]
US President Barack Obama made the case for overhauling the nation’s sentencing laws on Tuesday in front of top law enforcement officials at the 122nd Annual International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference and Exposition. The president argued that placing large numbers of nonviolent drug offenders in prison was neither fair nor an effective way [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Sallie Thieme Sanford of University of Washington School of Law discusses the decisive impact of the most recent Supreme Court ACA decision on the Marketplaces and also on state decisions regarding Medicaid expansion. She argues that the Court’s decision in King v. Burwell not only averted the ACA’s potential destruction but also [...]
The UN released a report on Tuesday stating that Iran’s human rights situation remains alarming despite the signing of the nuclear deal earlier this month. The report, published by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran Ahmed Shaheed , stated that although the nuclear deal and [...]
A federal judge who had previously ordered the US to release a series of force-feeding videotapes from Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday denied a request by the government to reconsider the order. US District Judge Gladys Kessler stated in her opinion that nothing has occurred to change her mind and that holding prisoners for years without [...]
The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) filed a petition writ of certiorari on Monday asking the US Supreme Court to hear their case challenging the Affordable Care Act (ACA) under Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution . PLF claims that because the bill introducing the ACA was introduced in the Senate, it goes against the [...]
