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Hungary charges suspected ex-Nazi with war crimes
Hungarian authorities on Wednesday took into custody a 97-year-old Hungarian man suspected of abusing and helping deport thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. The man alleged to be Laszlo Csatary was arrested in Budapest after the Simon Wiesenthal (More) |
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Nazi war crimes suspect allegedly in Hungary
Hungarian authorities on Monday announced plans to investigate into whether a former Nazi resides in the country's capital amid demands by various rights groups to prosecute the war criminal. The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) , a Jewish human rights (More) |
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Ukraine court postpones Tymoshenko appeal for third time
A Ukrainian appeals court on Thursday postponed the appeal hearing for former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko [personal website; JURIST news archive], making this the third postponement in the former prime minister's appeal of her seven-year prison (More) |
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Ukraine court postpones Tymoshenko tax evasion case
A Ukrainian court in the city of Kharkiv on Tuesday ruled that the tax evasion trial of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko [personal website; JURIST news archive] would be delayed until July 23 due to Tymoshenko's inability to attend for health (More) |
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Ukraine parliament passes Russian language bill amid protests
The Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday passed a language bill that would allow Russian to be spoken in official settings in particular regions of the country. The legislation, which would allow Russian in courts, education and other government institut (More) |
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Food Security, Law and Globalization: Part One
JURIST Columnist Volha Samasiuk holds an LL.M. from the University of Arkansas School of Law and she was formerly a legal consultant for the Belarus Food Safety Improvement Project. In the first entry of a two-part series, Samasiuk discusses the impo (More) |
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Europe rights court rules Ukraine official's detention was arbitrary
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled unanimously that the arrest and detention of Ukraine's former interior minister Yuriy Lutsenko violated several articles of the European Convention on Human Rights . The court found two violations o (More) |
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Ukraine court postpones Tymoshenko appeal
A Ukrainian appeals court on Tuesday delayed the appeal hearing for former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko [personal website; JURIST news archive] challenging her corruption conviction and seven-year sentence. Although Tymoshenko has previ (More) |
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Ukraine ex-PM ordered to see court-appointed doctor
Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko [personal website; JURIST news archive] was ordered to be seen by a court-appointed doctor on Monday after she failed to appear at her tax evasion trial. Tymoshenko is reportedly suffering from a spin (More) |
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Ukraine ex-PM to face murder charges
Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko [personal website; JURIST news archive] will face charges associated with the shooting of a Ukrainian lawmaker, a deputy prosecutor said Monday. Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka had indica (More) |
Sherman Antitrust Act passed by Congress
On July 2, 1890, the Sherman Antitrust Act became the first anti-monopoly legislation passed by Congress.
Learn more about the Sherman Act.
