JURIST Guest Columnist Shu-Yi Oei of Tulane University Law School discusses tax evasion investigations and possible criminal charges against HSBC’s Swiss private banking unit… Beginning around 2006, Hervé Falciani, a computer systems engineer at HSBC’s Swiss private banking unit, HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) (“HSBC Suisse”), obtained and extracted a large quantity of client data from [...]
Burundi authorities arrested political opposition leader Audifax Ndabitoreye on Wednesday shortly after he met with East African Community (EAC) ministers in the capital city of Bujumbura. Ndabitoreye was arrested for insurrection , and the police displayed an arrest warrant to journalists as he was taken into custody. The EAC is the regional intergovernmental organization of [...]
Afghanistan’s Primary Court in Kabul sentenced four men to death on Tuesday for the mob killing of a 27-year-old Afghan woman in March. Farkhunda was killed March 19 after being accused of burning a copy of the Koran, although an investigation later determined she never did. The attack was captured on cell phone cameras as [...]
France’s National Assembly , the lower house of parliament, approved Bill relating to Intelligence (No. 2669) on Tuesday, which would allow authorities to increase surveillance of anyone linked to terrorism investigations without permission from a judge. The bill authorizes intelligence agencies to tap e-mails and phone calls, place recording cameras inside homes, and install devices [...]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) launched a website on Tuesday aimed at disproving the myths of albinism, the rare condition which is still misunderstood both socially and medically. Albinism affects from one in 5,000 to one in 15,000 people in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Health Organization . [...]
California’s State Water Resources Control Board on Tuesday approved rules that will limit how people, governments and businesses can use water during the state’s drought, promoting deep conservation efforts in the process. The rules include forcing cities to limit watering on public property and encouraging homeowners to let their lawns die. California Governor Jerry Brown [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled Tuesday that police may obtain historical cell phone tower location information from third-party businesses without a search warrant. Quartavius Davis was convicted for committing seven separate armed robberies between August and October 2010 in South Florida. The prosecutor presented evidence in trial of cell tower [...]
Burundi’s Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that President Pierre Nkurunziza can seek a third term in office without violating the country’s constitution, which states that presidents shall be universally elected into office for a term of five years and can renew the term once. Nkurunziza was appointed to the presidency by the legislature in 2005 and [...]
Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday condemned both the Syrian Assad Regime and anti-government rebels for committing human rights abuses and war crimes in the Syrian city of Aleppo. AI’s 74-page report , based on interviews with current and former residents of Aleppo, documents “unthinkable atrocities” in the city, including the systematic use of barrel bombs [...]
The Italian Parliament on Monday approved a controversial electoral overhaul designed to bring increased political stability to the country. The law provides new electoral rules that will provide a majority of electoral seats to a clear winner of an election. The winning party will be defined as one that receives at least 40 percent of [...]
