A defense lawyer on Monday sought to have the charges dropped against Guantanamo prisoner Abd al Hadi al Iraqi, arguing that the US is violating international law and the Constitution by prosecuting him for war crimes. The trial for Hadi al Iraqi , a suspected Iraqi al Qaeda commander, is being held at Guantanamo Bay [...]
A judge for the District Court of The Hague on Tuesday approved the extradition to the US of a Russian citizen suspected of involvement in a multimillion dollar computer hack. Vladimir Drinkman will be sent to New Jersey, where three other Russians and a Ukrainian citizen are charged in a data breach that gave them [...]
Egypt’s Court of Cassation upheld convictions and three-year prison sentences of three activists on Monday for violating the country’s protest laws. Ahmed Maher, Ahmed Douma and Mohammed Adel were arrested for breaking a law that bans political gatherings of more than 10 people without prior government permission. As the Court of Cassation is Egypt’s highest [...]
The Washington state legislature proposed bills on Monday to eliminate the death penalty. HB 1739 and SB 5639 are sponsored by Democratic Representative Reuven Carlyle and Republican Senator Mark Miloscia , respectively, and the bills will replace the death penalty with life imprisonment without opportunity for parole or early release for those convicted of aggravated [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists Yaël Ronen, of Sha’arei Mishpat Academic Center, and Jeremy Telman, of Valparaiso University Law School, discuss the policy of demolishing the homes of those considered as terrorists in light of petition filed with the Israel Supreme Court challenging legality of such policy… The Petition Challenging Regulation 119 on Home Demolitions In November [...]
Security forces in Egypt arrested 516 supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood , Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim announced Monday. On Sunday, which marked the fourth anniversary of the 2011 uprising and the fall of Hosni Mubarak , supporters of the Brotherhood and ousted president Mohamed Morsi battled with security forces while rallying against President Abdel [...]
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to stay three executions pending a decision on the state’s lethal injection protocol or until the Oklahoma Department of Corrections finds a good alternative. On Friday the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments by three death-row inmates challenging Oklahoma’s current form of lethal [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein made a statement on Monday ahead of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, 70 years after the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp was liberated. Hussein stated that the world is still haunted by the tragic events of that war [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Kendra Huard Fershee, of West Virginia University College at Law, discusses the legal and social issues within West Virginia’s struggle to uphold same sex marriage … Same-sex marriage supporters in West Virginia—and several other states—went to bed on Sunday night, October 5, 2014, not knowing that they should be as excited as [...]
A Turkish court on Sunday ordered a ban on Facebook pages that contain materials insulting the Prophet Muhammed. The Golbasi Duty Magistrate Court ruled that Facebook would be blocked in Turkey if the order is not implemented. The Anadolu Agency , Turkey’s official press agency, reported that the court order was forwarded to the Presidency [...]
