After failing to meet a February 3 deadline, Syria released a 100-day plan to dispose of their chemical weapons on Friday. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) set the deadline for all Syrian chemical weapons to be destroyed by June 30. While the OPCW did not comment on the plan, several organizations [...]
On Saturday, the Ukrainian parliament voted to remove President Viktor Yanukovich . The vote followed Yanukovich’s statement that he would not be resigning despite current escalating violence. At least 25 individuals have been reported dead and more than 240 injured, in protests that escalated when individuals began a march on Parliament in opposition of Yanukovich. [...]
Ukraine opposition icon and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was released from prison Saturday when the Supreme Council of Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada , voted to decriminalize the charges that had been brought against her. Tymoshenko, an ardent critic of current President Viktor Yanukovich , was jailed and sentenced on corruption charges in 2011 that many [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Adam Coogle of Human Rights Watch discusses Saudi Arabia’s new terrorism law…
Arizona state lawmakers gave final approval on Thursday to a bill that will allow state business owners to refuse service to individuals for “religious reasons,” a law that has been denounced by critics as sanctioning discrimination against LGBT individuals. The bill was jointly written by the conservative Center for Arizona Policy and the Alliance Defending [...]
German officials on Thursday raided the homes of three men and arrested them for their suspected roles as guards at the Auschwitz death camp during World War II. The men, aged 88, 92 and 94, are currently being detained in the Hohenasperg prison hospital. They are being charged as accessories to murder, an example set [...]
Moscow’s Zamoskvoretksy District Court convicted eight anti-Kremlin protesters on Friday of rioting and violence against police at a protest in 2012. The protestors were arrested the night before Vladimir Putin’s inauguration to his third term as president. At the protest in 2012, police cut off access to the public square where the rally was to [...]
A Haitian appellate court ruled on Thursday that former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier can be charged under international law with crimes against humanity committed during his rule. Haitian authorities reopened a criminal case against Duvalier three years ago after he returned to the country from a 25-year exile in France. The charges against Duvalier include [...]
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said in a filing on Thursday that her office will not defend Oregon’s ban on same-sex marriage. Rosenblum said that the ban cannot survive a federal constitutional challenge under any standard of review. Rosenblum went on to say that there was no rational basis to refuse to honor same-sex marriage [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of New Jersey ruled Friday that the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) surveillance on Muslims is a lawful effort for national security, and does not constitute harm or violation of civil rights. The controversial surveillance program, which allegedly targets individuals based on religious affiliation, was [...]
