A group of UN human rights experts, including the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, urged stronger protection Monday for journalists covering conflicts. The group said recent attacks, kidnappings, and arbitrary incarcerations need to be condemned and opposed by the international community. The experts stressed that “journalists covering armed conflicts do not [...]
Malaysian prosecutors charged University of Malay law professor Azmi Sharom with sedition on Tuesday for his opinion on a political crisis that occurred five years ago. Sharom voiced his opinion in an article published August 14 by The Malay Mail Online, in which he stated that the 2009 collapse of an opposition state government was [...]
Amnesty International (AI) the extremist group, Islamic State (IS) , of carrying out ethnic cleansing “on a historic scale” in Northern Iraq. The report, entitled “Ethnic cleansing on a historic scale: the Islamic State’s systematic targeting of minorities in northern Iraq,” asserts that since June, the group has abducted or killed possibly thousands of ethnic [...]
The Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) today postponed the commencement of the confirmation of charges hearing in the case against Charles Ble Goude at the defense’s request to complete its preparation. The hearing, previously scheduled for September 22, is postponed to September 29. Ble Goude is accused of working with former [...]
On Sunday Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a motion in the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to delay the enforcement of a recent district court ruling that struck down state law that imposed new regulations on abortion clinics. The motion was filed just hours before the new law was to take [...]
The United Nations top advocate for children affected by war on Monday expressed concern about the expansion of the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq and the increase in violations against children there. During her address to the UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) special session on Iraq, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children [...]
A federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked the enforcement of Louisiana’s new abortion law , which was scheduled to take effect on Monday. The measure requires doctors who perform abortions to have patient admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic, allowing for clinics to be closed when doctors do not comply. [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Lauren Carasik of Western New England University School of Law discusses what appears to be the politically motivated charges against former president Jean Bertrand Aristide of Haiti … The latest chapter in a long series of preliminary legal actions against Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has generated a series of standoffs. Outside Aristide’s [...]
The Zimbabwean government stated this week that it is in the process of developing new cyber laws to regulate social media. Caecilia Nyamutswa, legal director of the regulatory organization Potraz , communicated to an information and communication technology (ICT) committee that the bills are ready to be brought to the attorney general for final drafting. [...]
Lebanon’s Minister of Justice on Saturday called for the “sternest punishments” to the individuals in Beirut who burned the flags of the militant groups the Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS) and the Al-Nusra Front. It is reported that Minister Ashraf Rifi issued a highly criticized statement which has urged the Lebanon state prosecutor to bring [...]
