Home Office statistics revealed Tuesday that hate crimes in England and Wales have risen by 18 percent over the last year. Police recorded 52,528 hate crimes between 2014 and 2015, which were motivated by factors including race and religious hatred, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity. The Home Office suggested that this number did not [...]
US-backed Kurdish forces and other militant groups have been committing war crimes in northern Syria in an effort to quash any sympathy or support for the Islamic State (IS) , Amnesty International (AI) reported Tuesday. According to the report, militant groups have cut off civilians’ food, life-saving services and other basic necessities. The efforts by [...]
Iran’s Parliament on Tuesday voted 161-59, with 13 abstentions, to accept the nuclear agreement that was introduced and agreed upon by world powers over the summer. Under the terms of the deal, Iran agrees to remove two-thirds of its centrifuges, ship all spent fuel from the reactor out of the country, and limit uranium research [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Katrice Bridges Copeland of Penn State Law at University Park discusses the controversy surrounding the Department of Justices’ failure to prosecute corporations and those associated with corporate fraud following the Financial Crisis of 2008… The Department of Justice (DOJ) has received a great deal of criticism for its failure to prosecute both [...]
Mexico’s attorney general on Sunday released a 54,000-page file detailing the Mexican government’s investigation into last year’s disappearance of 43 students. Attorney General Arely Gomez Gonzalez provided the partially-redacted document through Twitter following repeated calls by Mexico’s National Transparency Institute for its release. After pouring through the documents, some people are questioning the official story, [...]
A South African deputy minister said Sunday that the nation will leave the International Criminal Court (ICC) , opining that the court has “lost its direction.” Following criticism for ignoring an ICC directive to arrest the president of Sudan, Obed Bapela of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) told reporters that South Africa will continue [...]
Chinese state media on Monday reported that the former head of the country’s biggest oil firm was sentenced to 16 years in prison for corruption. The former chairman of China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) , Jiang Jiemin, was tried in April for taking bribes and abuse of power. A court in Hubei province convicted him [...]
California Governor Jerry Brown on Sunday signed into law a ban on the use of “Redskins” as a team name, nickname or mascot, making California the first state to do so. The ban, called the California Racial Mascots Act , will come into effect January 1, 2017. The measure will allow schools using the name, [...]
An Egyptian court on Monday ordered the release of former president Hosni Mubarak’s sons, Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, after holding that they had completed their three-year prison sentences on embezzlement.The Cairo criminal court sentenced Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to three years in prison on corruption charges during a retrial in May, but they [...]
An Iranian Revolutionary Court on Monday convicted Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian , approximately two months after the end of his trial. Rezaian was accused of espionage for allegedly collecting confidential information, handing it to hostile governments and acting against national security. However, it is unclear on exactly which charges he was convicted or if [...]
