The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday dismissed the Argentine government’s appeal of a contempt charge in an ongoing dispute over Argentina’s bond default in 2001. The contempt charge resulted after Buenos Aires refused to pay two US hedge funds and sought to sidestep a court order that forbids the government [...]
Chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda said Wednesday that although the Islamic State (IS) has been accused of widespread atrocities throughout Iraq and Syria, her office lacks jurisdiction to open a formal investigation into the group. Despite allegations of “crimes of unspeakable cruelty,” Bensouda said, “Syria and Iraq are not Parties [...]
A coalition of human rights groups on Tuesday urged Venezuelan authorities to stop intimidating and harassing human rights organizations. According to the groups, the government has employed tactics intended to discredit and undermine the legitimacy of 28 international and Latin American human rights organizations by making allegations that the organizations do not support Venezuelan democracy. [...]
The Anadolu 4th High Criminal Court in Istanbul on Tuesday acquitted the remaining 62 military officers for from an alleged conspiracy to initiate a coup in Turkey in 2003. A lawyer explained the ruling cites inadmissible evidence , notably some of the digital evidence. Allegedly, the digital evidence was rendered useless by significant time-based inconsistencies. [...]
The Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School filed a class action lawsuit on Monday on behalf of a Vietnam-war veteran, requesting that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) promptly adjudicate his pending disability benefits application. The named plaintiff, Conley Monk Jr., is a Marine Corps veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) [...]
Malaysian lawmakers approved detention without trial in a new anti-terror bill that passed on Tuesday, but human rights groups criticize the bill as a giant step backwards for human rights in the country. The Prevention of Terrorism Act was passed by the country’s Parliament with a 79-60 vote. If approved The new law would allow [...]
The Federal Court of Australia on Tuesday ordered six Internet service providers (ISPs) to hand over information about alleged illegal downloaders of the US film Dallas Buyer’s Club. The case was filed by the US company that owns the rights to the movie as a preliminary discovery application to determine the identity of unknown respondents. [...]
A court in Nairobi on Tuesday ordered five Kenyan citizens and a Tanzanian to be detained for 30 days while authorities investigate possible connections to last week’s university massacre. The court granted state lawyers’ request for the extended detention of the six suspects, which will likely last up to 24 hours before the detainee has [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled Monday that some requirements of the 1994 Michigan Sex Offenders Registration Act are so vague that they are unconstitutional. One of these is the requirement that convicted sex offenders stay at least 1,000 feet away from schools. The judge stated that [...]
Pakistan’s Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday issued an order to register a report against former CIA station chief Jonathan Banks for his involvement in a 2009 US drone attack that killed two tribesmen. The court’s order was issued in response to anti-drone activist Haji Abdul Karim Khan’s petition, filed because his brother and son [...]
