Lawmakers in Romania rejected a request from prosecutors to strip Prime Minister Victor Ponta of immunity on Tuesday, despite him being named as a suspect last week in an anti-corruption probe. Prosecutors questioned Ponta in connection to charges of forgery, tax evasion and money laundering occurring between 2007 to 2011 and have also directed investigations [...]
An Egyptian criminal court on Tuesday sentenced 11 individuals to death for their involvement in a 2012 soccer riot. The riots, which occurred in Port Said, killed more than 70 and injured about 1,000 others crushed by crowds attempting to leave the stadium when fans of Al-Masry violently stormed the stands and attacked Al-Ahly fans [...]
Ireland’s abortion law threatens the lives of women who choose to remain in the country, Amnesty International (AI) said on Tuesday. Under the country’s abortion law, women are only permitted to undergo abortion proceedings if their lives are at risk. AI contends that the law forces more than 4,000 women and girls to travel outside [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Sarah Lamdan of the CUNY School of Law discusses the urgent need for federal agencies to reform their records management and data preservation and search functions so that they are not crippled by FOIA requests for email account data and other types of Internet generated electronic records that fall under the FOIA… [...]
The families of two Yemeni men who were killed by US drone strikes filed a lawsuit Sunday against the US claiming that the men, Salem bin Ali Jaber and Waleed bin Ali Jaber, were “innocent bystanders” who were wrongfully killed. The lawsuit, which seeks no monetary relief, states that the men were not “likely targets [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in Jackson v. San Francisco , a case challenging a San Francisco law requiring gun owners to keep handguns “stored in a locked container or disabled with a trigger lock that has been approved by the California Department of Justice.” Opponents of the law claim that it [...]
Iranian authorities on Monday arrested Hamid Baghaei, former vice president under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . Baghaei’s arrest is the second detention of a high-ranking official from the Ahmadinejad administration, as Mohammad Reza Rahimi, another former vice president, was convicted of corruption and embezzlement last year. The recent arrests are part of efforts by President Hassan Rouhani [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Zivotofsky v. Kerry that the Constitution gives the president the exclusive power to recognize foreign sovereigns. Seeking to have his place of birth listed as “Israel” on his passport, Jerusalem-born Menachem Zivotofsky and his family appealed trial and appeals court decisions that refused to grant his request on [...]
A former police officer in North Charleston, South Carolina, was indicted by a grand jury on Monday on murder charges brought after the April incident in which the officer shot an unarmed black man, Walter Scott, who was running away from him. The case gained prominence after a video was released in which the graphic [...]
The Eritrean government has committed “systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations,” according to a report released Monday by a panel of UN investigators. The investigators were denied access to Eritrea but were able to conduct their investigation through confidential interviews and submissions. The report asserts that the Eritrean government, led by President Isaias Afwerki [...]
