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Iran human rights lawyer ends hunger strike
Iranian lawyer and prominent human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh on Tuesday ended a 49-day hunger strike in protest of her prison conditions and a travel ban imposed on her family. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights had Navi Pillay expressed (More) |
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Maldives ex-president arrested for violating court-imposed travel ban
Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was arrested and Monday for leaving the capital city of Male in contravention of a court summons and a court-imposed travel ban. Nasheed has twice failed to appear in court to face abuse of power charges. (More) |
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Maldives ex-president violates travel ban, fails to appear in court
Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed on Monday violated a court-ordered travel ban when he left the capital city of Male on what was supposed to be the first day of his now-postponed trial for abuse of power. In anticipation of the Monday proc (More) |
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Egypt charges former culture minister with corruption
The Egyptian Ministry of Justice on Tuesday brought charges against former culture minister Farouq Hosni for corruption. He has been accused of illegally obtaining 27 million Egyptian pounds (USD $4.5 million) during his term as culture minister un (More) |
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Philippines court grants bail to former president
A regional court of the Philippines on Tuesday granted bail to former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] who was detained on electoral fraud charges. The court reasoned that the evidence, based mainly on a single wi (More) |
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Egypt court rejects release of Mubarak's sons until trial in September
An Egyptian court on Monday rejected pleas to release two sons of ousted former leader Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile; JURIST news archive] while they await trial. Their lawyer, Farid el-Deeb, argued that his clients are detained unlawfully becau (More) |
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Pakistan court finds former ambassador guilty of authoring secret memo
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday found former Pakistan ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani [official website; JURIST news archive] guilty of authoring the secret memo that implied Pakistani politicians were collaborating with US politician (More) |
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US, Arab states not bound by grant of immunity to Yemen president: HRW
US and Arab Gulf states are not legally bound by a decision to grant immunity to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh [official website, in Arabic; JURIST news archive] and should refrain from doing so, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report rel (More) |
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Pakistan high court lifts travel ban on former US ambassador
The Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday ordered that a travel ban imposed upon the former ambassador to the US is to be lifted. The ban was imposed upon Husain Haqqani after an anonymous memo that implied Pakistani politicians were collaborating with (More) |
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Ukraine ex-PM Tymoshenko arrested
Ukrainian Judge Rodion Kireyev on Friday ordered the arrest of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko [personal website; JURIST news archive], also imposing a travel ban. Reversing a decision he made last week , Kireyev arrested Tymoshenko on conte (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
