An Egyptian criminal court on Tuesday sentenced 188 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death for an August 2013 attack on a police station in the governate of Giza, widely known as the “Kerdasa massacre.” This incident resulted in the death of 11 police officers and two civilians and was staged in response to a military coup [...]
A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Tuesday found British journalist David Bergman guilty of contempt for challenging the official death toll of Bangladesh’s 1971 independence war with Pakistan. Bergman wrote in a 2011 blog post and two other articles that the number of those killed or raped during the war recorded by Bangladeshi officials lacked [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday denied both the prosecution’s request for further adjournment and the defense’s request to terminate the proceedings in the case against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. The ICC then instructed the prosecution to file a notice within one week “indicating either (i) its withdrawal of the charges in this case; [...]
Egypt’s prosecutor general stated Tuesday that he will appeal the Egyptian court’s Saturday decision that dropped charges against former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and dismissed the case . Mubarak, his former security chief Habib El-Adly and six former government aides were being retried on charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of more than [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Jean-Marie Kamatali, of Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law, discusses the use and misuse of lèse-majesté… Despite increasing domestic and international pressure on Thailand to repeal or revise the provision of its criminal code on lèse-majesté, the military government has not only resisted this pressure but has further intensified its application. [...]
Louisiana officials on Tuesday asked the US Supreme Court to hear a case concerning its same-sex marriage ban. The state’s Attorney General asked for a writ of certiorari before judgment, meaning that the Supreme court could hear the case before the US Appeals Court for the Fifth Circuit rules. These writs are only granted when [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two cases. In B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc. the court heard arguments on (1) whether the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (TTAB) finding of a likelihood of confusion precludes Hargis from relitigating that issue in infringement litigation, in which likelihood of confusion is an [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Faisal Kutty of Valparaiso University School of Law discusses the offenses of non-consensual publication of obscene materials and possible implication of the laws banning such offenses … “I was just so afraid. I didn’t know how this would affect my career,” said Jennifer Lawrence, referring to the hacked nude photos of her [...]
The Minister for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade , Charles Flanagan, announced on Tuesday he will make a request to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to review the judgment of a case against the UK for alleged torture. In 1971 during a violent period known as The Troubles, 14 men [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Tuesday that refugees seeking asylum on the basis of homosexuality can not be subjected to tests or interrogations in order to prove their sexual orientation. The court nullified the previous practice of verification based on homosexual stereotypes and detailed questioning as to sexual practices, declaring this contrary to [...]
