A state prosecutor for France on Friday requested that HSBC , a Swiss private bank, face a criminal tax evasion trial. The request is a result of the investigation into a massive file leak showing that HSBC’s Swiss bank profited from conducting business with people engaged in a variety of illegal activity, particularly tax evasion. [...]
President Barack Obama on Friday will release details about the creation of a new advisory committee in efforts to improve conditions in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as he visits a VA facility in Phoenix, Arizona. The committee will consist of business leaders, members of veteran organizations and health science professionals experienced in customer [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday withdrew charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who was charged with crimes against humanity for inciting post-election violence in 2007 and 2008 during which more than 1,000 people died and more than 600,000 were displaced. Although the court is terminating proceedings, the court indicated it could still bring [...]
Ninety-two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from around the world on Friday issued an oral statement calling on the United Nations Human Rights Council to institute a Special Rapporteur on Privacy, citing a pressing need for the provision of continuous and authoritative guidance on the scope and content of the right to privacy. The group of NGOs, [...]
Swedish prosecutors on Friday issued a request to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over sexual assault allegations at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he has lived since June of 2012. The move marks a change of course for the team of prosecutors, who have insisted since 2010 that Assange should be questioned in Sweden. [...]
The Alabama House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to keep execution drug suppliers’ names secret and to bring back the use of the electric chair when chemicals for lethal injection are not available. The members of the House added the drug suppliers secrecy section to a bill that is currently under debate. The bill would [...]
A UN human rights expert on Thursday called on Iran to revoke laws restricting freedom of press, free detained journalists, and stop blocking websites. Ahmed Shaheed , the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran, said that President Hassan Rouhani has not kept the promise he made after his 2013 election to create a freer society in [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Andrew D. Leipold of the University of Illinois College of Law, discusses the First Circuit’s decision not to change venue in the Boston Marathon bombing trial… The claim that a local jury can’t be unbiased in a case of this profile is intuitively appealing. Although Boston is a big city, the marathon [...]
The District Court of The Hague on Wednesday struck down a Dutch data retention law, holding that it violates privacy rights of EU citizens. The law , enacted in 2009, allowed the Dutch government to retain telephone and Internet data of citizens for up to 12 months for the alleged purpose of fighting terrorism and [...]
Rights groups on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Maryland against the National Security Agency (NSA) alleging that one of the NSA’s mass surveillance programs violates privacy rights and threatens free communication. The plaintiffs, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Wikimedia, [...]
