A United Nations expert on Friday exposed the worsening situation in ISIL controlled territory where an estimated eight million people are currently living in fear. According to Ben Emmerson , the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, ISIL terrorists staged deadly ambushes against people [...]
Dylann Roof, the man charged with killing nine black church members attending Emanuel AME Church in Charleston last month, entered a ‘temporary’ not guilty plea Friday. Roof has been indicted on 33 charges including federal hate crimes and firearms charges for killing and attempting to kill African-Americans based on race and in an effort to [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Hammer, of Wayne State University Law School, discusses the controversy surrounding Caitlyn Jenner and rights for transgender individuals… Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up, and so the door of my heart can be left open, the door of compassion. Call Me By My True Names [...]
A Mexican judge temporarily suspended a US extradition order on Friday for drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman , even though the federal attorney general’s office had approved the order earlier that day. No reason was given for the suspension . Guzman, a notorious drug lord and trafficker, escaped from a maximum security prison in [...]
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and recently appointed UN special envoy in the Middle East Nickolay Mladenov condemned the arson attacks in the West Bank on Friday that killed a Palestinian child and severely wounded the child’s parents and sibling. “Continued failures to effectively address impunity for repeated acts of settler violence have led [...]
Egypt and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement on Thursday that will improve stability and safety in the region. The agreement , entitled the “Cairo Declaration” and signed in Cairo by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt and Saudi Defense Minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman , aims to boost military and social ties in [...]
A federal judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday rejected a legal challenge from a Guantanamo Bay detainee who claimed that his detention at the naval base was illegal. Muktar Yahya Najee al-Warafi from Yemen was captured in Afghanistan and has been held at Guantanamo since 2002. In his [...]
A federal judge in Alaska ruled Thursday that Greenpeace USA will be fined $2,500 for every hour that protesters block a Royal Dutch Shell vessel from leaving Portland. The protesters have been suspending themselves from a bridge and kayakers have been blocking the river to try to prevent a vessel leaving for oil drilling in [...]
US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on Thursday ordered a review of military recruitment office security policies, according to a statement from the Pentagon. Speaking on the order , Pentagon spokesperson Navy Captain Jeff Davis also noted that existing Department of Defense (DOD) policy authorized commanders to arm qualified personnel at recruiting offices and other [...]
The Israeli parliament on Thursday passed a law that allows the force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strikes if their lives are at risk. The law, which passed in a close vote of 46 – 40, requires that the force-feeding of an inmate be sanctioned by a judge following the recommendation of a doctor. If a [...]
