A Baghdad court on Wednesday sentenced 24 alleged members of the Islamic State (IS) to death for the killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers during the group’s raid across the country last year. The men were convicted of taking part in the June 2014 massacre which led to the deaths of over 1,700 Iraqi soldiers. [...]
A US district court on Wednesday sentenced former North Carolina State Assembly member Stephen Laroque to 24 months in prison for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a non-profit he ran. Last January Laroque plead guilty to taking money from East Carolina Development Co., which was federally funded. The charges included in the plea [...]
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Wednesday issued an emergency plan to combat the ethic driven civil unrest in the southern city of Ghardaia. It is reported that 22 people have died due the violence exhibited within the region by rival gangs. The plan issued by President Bouteflika places the area’s military commander in charge to [...]
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday set the execution dates of three inmates who had previously challenged the use of the drug that will be used in their lethal injections. This is the highest criminal court in Oklahoma. Although the inmates had argued that the use of the drug, midazolam, violates the “cruel [...]
Russia’s Federation Council on Wednesday announced it plans to add 12 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to a list of groups that will be investigated for undermining the government. The so-called “patriotic stop-list” includes National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the MacArthur Foundation, the International Republican Institute, and other organizations, most of which have ties to the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Geraldine Mattioli-Zeltner, the advocacy director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch, discusses how a Special Criminal Court, created by the interim authorities of the Central African Republic, has the potential to strengthen the fight against impunity within the countries where the crimes took place… On June 3, Catherine Samba-Panza, [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Amaury A. Reyes-Torres, of Ibero-American University, discusses the recent Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage in the US… The Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) issued its anticipated opinion on Obergefell v. Hodges . Regardless of what your view on the decision might be, Obergefell v. Hodges is historic. It is [...]
California lawmakers on Tuesday ended their legislative efforts to allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives in the state. The right-to-die bill had been amended several times over the past half year. The law became hotly debated when Brittany Maynard moved from San Francisco to Oregon, where right-to-die laws are legal, so that [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Tuesday expressed concern over a new national security law which increases China’s cyber security powers. The law calls for an increase in internet oversight and for authorities to take tougher measures against cyber attacks, thefts and the spread of harmful information. Zeid said the [...]
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday upheld a 75-year-long policy prohibiting individuals, corporations or firms working under federal contracts from contributing to the campaigns of federal candidates, parties and committees. Plaintiffs in the case, three individuals who have held federal contracts and were previously barred from making campaign [...]
