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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 30 September 2017
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: A Vietnamese Court began issuing verdicts and sentences Friday in an ongoing anti-corruption case for members of Ocean Bank, with former CEO Nguyen Xuan Son being sentenced to death for embez (More) |
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Ukraine enacts controversial Ukrainian language education law
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a controversial education bill into law on Monday that makes Ukrainian the required language in state schols, among other things. Specifically, the law declares that Ukrainian will be the medium of instr (More) |
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World Legal News Round Up for Saturday, 16 September 2017
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The Office of the Attorney General of Indonesia announced Thursday that it would rescind a policy that banned lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals from becoming employees (More) |
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Rights groups urge Trump administration to sanction foreign individuals
A coalition of rights groups, led by Human Rights First , called on the US Departments of State and Treasury Wednesday to use the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to sanction foreign citizens accused of human violations and corrupt (More) |
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UN: Ukraine tensions continue to flare despite recent decrease in civilian deaths
Last month marked a welcome trend in the Ukrainian conflict, with civilian deaths decreasing for the first time in three years, according to a report released Tuesday by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) . The report at (More) |
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Senate passes legislation imposing new sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea
In a 98-2 vote , the US Senate on Thursday passed H.R. 3364 , a bill that imposes new sanctions on Russia. This development comes two days after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the bill. The sanctions imposed on Russia are for, (More) |
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House overwhelmingly passes bill for sanctions against Russia, Iran, North Korea
The US House of Representatives approved a bill Tuesday regarding sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea, with a vote of 419-3. The sanctions against Iran are for the country's ballistic missile program, terrorism related activities and hu (More) |
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President Trump, in the Name of God, Go.
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin G. Davis of University of Toledo College of Law adapts Leo Amery's famous 1940 speech calling for the ousting of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain for the age of Trump...May I say that I agree wholeheartedly with what (More) |
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Russia urged to bring those responsible for activist's murder to justice
The US and Britain urged the Russian government on Friday to further the investigation into the assassination of Boris Nemtsov. Five Chechan men were convicted on Thursday for the murder of the opposition politician. The US Department of State rele (More) |
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Ukraine says Russia behind recent cyber attack
On Saturday the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) accused a recent cyber attack on Russia and the Kremlin. The SBU stated that the hackers behind the most recent attack are the same as those who conducted an attack on the Ukrainian power grid in D (More) |
Iraq negotiated independence from Britain under treaty
On December 14, 1927, Iraqi and British officials agreed to a new treaty under which Britain would recognize the independence of Iraq and promised to support its admission into the League of Nations in 1932.
In return, Iraq granted the British three new airbases in Iraq and agreed that British officers should train the Iraqi army. Learn more about Iraq's British heritage.
