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Rights group criticizes Kuwait over executions
Amnesty International (AI) criticized the government of Kuwait on Monday for executing three men convicted of murder. The three men, a Saudi national, a Pakistani national and a stateless Bidun man, were convicted on separate murder charges befor (More) |
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UN rights chief condemns executions in Saudi Arabia
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday condemned the executions of seven people in Saudi Arabia as a violation of international safeguards on the use of the death penalty. The men were executed by firing squad after convict (More) |
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Saudi Arabia court sentences human rights activitsts to 10 years in prison
A Saudi Arabian criminal court in Riyadh on Saturday sentenced two Saudi Arabian human rights activists on to at least 10 years in prison. The activists were found guilty earlier that day of sedition, providing foreign media with inaccurate informa (More) |
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Saudi Arabia court convicts Egypt rights lawyer of drug smuggling
A Saudi Arabian court on Tuesday convicted prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer Ahmed el-Gezawi of smuggling drugs. Despite requests from Saudi prosecutors for the death penalty, el-Gezawi was given a sentence of five years imprisonment and 300 l (More) |
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HRW urges Saudi Arabia to drop apostasy charges against website editor
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Saudi Arabia [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] to dismiss a criminal case escalated last week to a senior Saudi court on apostasy charges. Website editor Raif Badawi, 30, was originally charged with “i (More) |
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Guantanamo detainee launches defamation suit against UK agencies
Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer has filed a defamation lawsuit claiming that British agencies MI5 and MI6 had given the US statements the agencies knew to be false. While Aamer has been cleared for release from Guantanamo, he has not been return (More) |
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Saudi student sentenced to life for US bomb plot
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas sentenced a former Texas college student from Saudi Arabia to life in prison on Tuesday for trying to make a bomb for use in a jihad. One of Khalid Ali-M Aldawsar's possible targ (More) |
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China's Blue Water Ambitions and the Law of the Sea
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that, in order to counter China's attempts to expand its maritime jurisdiction, the US must become a party to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea... (More) |
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UN rights chief urges Georgia to investigate prison torture
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday called on authorities in Georgia to investigate prisoner mistreatment after video footage earlier this week allegedly depicted the torture and rape of prisoners in the country's capital of (More) |
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UN rights chief condemns 16 nations for activist reprisals
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday told a special session of the Human Rights Council that 16 nations have failed to prevent members of their own governments from intimidating and attacking activists and protesters. Bas (More) |
UN deadline for Iraq withdrawal from Kuwait expires
On January 15, 1991, the deadline issued by United Nations for Iraq to withdraw its troops from of Kuwait expired. After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 678, giving Iraq until January 15, 1991 to leave.
