Two hundred sixty Chinese lawyers signed an open letter condemning police action in the northeastern province of Jilin where a lawyer was detained after invoking the constitutional rights of free speech and religion in court. The lawyer, Zhang Keke, was taken from court and detained for six hours over his statements in court defending a [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday confirmed four charges of crimes against humanity against Charles Ble Goude, and committed the ally of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo to trial at The Hague. Ble Goude is accused of working with former Ivory Coast President Gbagbo to orchestrate a wave of post-election violence between December 2010 [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Friday in four cases. In Bullard v. Hyde Park Savings Bank the court will decide whether an order denying confirmation of a bankruptcy plan is appealable. The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit dismissed the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. In Kimble v. Marvel Enterprises, Inc. the [...]
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) announced Wednesday that it plans to file a lawsuit challenging the law against abortions. Ireland’s abortion law currently allows abortion only when a woman’s physical or mental health is threatened, but NIHRC asserts that the current law is a violation of human rights, as the legislation allows for [...]
Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday said the Ivory Coast must hand over Simone Gbagbo, the wife of former President Laurent Gbagbo, to stand trial in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity. The ICC judges rejected the Ivory Coast’s challenge to the admissibility of the case, finding that domestic authorities [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Anastasiia Shtanieva, a practicing lawyer and trained mediator, discusses the current situation in Crimea and focuses on legal mechanisms to fight human rights violations on the peninsula… The Human Rights Day is observed annually on the 10th of December (commemorating the date of adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ). [...]
The failure of Central African Republic (CAR) and UN authorities to investigate and hold individuals accountable for war crimes has led to an endless cycle of violence, Amnesty International (AI) reported Thursday. AI says these abuses have continued after a July report by AI not only listing individuals suspected of war crimes but also the [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Thursday for the cancellation of a plan formulated by Thailand’s military government that encourages prisoners to work on fishing boats, citing the widespread abuse in the Thai fishing industry. The plan announced by the Thai labor minister last week would begin operation in early 2015 with thousands of male prisoners [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday overturned the insider trading convictions of two former hedge fund traders. Defendants Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson were convicted in May 2013 on charges of “conspiracy to commit insider trading and insider trading in violation of 18 USC § 371 , sections 10(b) and [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Cliff H. Mason II, Valparaiso University School of Law, Class of 2016, examines police procedure in the wake of several high profile police-involved deaths and discusses new qualifications aimed at raising the standards for police recruits…What if your grandfather was gunned down standing in his own garage? Sadly, that was the reality [...]
