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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 9 September 2017
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The US Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved $51.35 billion in funding on Thursday for state and foreign appropriations , including $10 million to help fund the UN agency that (More) |
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Former Brazil presidents charged with running criminal organization
Brazil's Attorney General Rodrigo Janot announced Tuesday that former Brazilian presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, along with other senior members of the Worker's Party, were being charged with leading a criminal organization (More) |
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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 2 September 2017
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Kenya's Supreme Court ruled 4-2 Friday to invalidate the recent presidential election. UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee on Thursday expressed grave concern for Rohingya Muslims in Myanma (More) |
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Brazil judge blocks order allowing mining in Amazon
A judge in Brazil issued a ruling Wednesday that temporarily blocks an executive order from President Michel Temer that would have opened large sections of the Amazon forest for mining. Temer's order would have allowed mining of gold, copper, iro (More) |
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South America rights groups file war crimes suits against former Sri Lanka army general
Human rights groups on Monday filed suits against Jagath Jayasuriya, a former Sri Lanka army general, for alleged war crimes and human rights violations he committed during the 2009 civil war in Sri Lanka. The suits are based on his role as a command (More) |
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Former Brazil president convicted of corruption
Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva was convicted Wednesday of corruption and money laundering and sentenced to almost 10 years in prison. Lula da Silva, who was president of Brazil from 2003 to 2010, was charged with obtaining USD $1.1 million (More) |
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Peru Congress votes to dismiss comptroller
The Peru Congress on Monday unanimously voted to remove the Comptroller, Edgar Alarcon, from office. The vote to remove Alarcon was initiated over accusations that he gave public funds to the mother of his children, violated ethical rules by ru (More) |
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Dutch court rules Netherlands partially responsible for deaths of 300 Muslim men during Bosnian War
The Hague Appeals Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court's decision that Dutch peacekeepers were 30 percent responsible for the deaths of 300 Muslim males who were turned away from a Dutch UN base in 1995 when the area surrounding the base was overr (More) |
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Canada Supreme Court rules Google must remove website from its global search results
The Supreme Court of Canada upheld an order on Wednesday that directed Google to block a company's website from is global search results. The ruling stems from a suit brought by a small technology company, Equustek Solutions Inc, who asserted tha (More) |
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Brazil president charged with corruption
Brazil's Attorney General Rodrigo Janot filed charges Monday against President Michel Temer for passive corruption. A former aide to the president was also charged. Temer is accused of taking a bribe from entrepreneur Joesley Batista . Temer issued (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.
