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Bahrain king orders commission to study report on rights violations
Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has ordered a special commission to look into recommendations made following an independent investigation into the alleged crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in the country, the official state media report (More) |
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Bahrain government committed human rights violations: report
Bahrain authorities used excessive force and tortured detainees involved in the pro-democracy demonstrations earlier this year, according to a report released Tuesday by an independent Bahraini government commission. The report, published by the Ba (More) |
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Bahrain admits use of excessive force against pro-democracy protesters
The Bahrain government on Monday admitted to the use of excessive force against pro-democracy protesters in the region early this year. The admission is a reversal of the country's previous characterization of its crackdown on protesters. Prior to (More) |
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Continued Dysfunction Marks Guantanamo Bureaucracy
JURIST Guest Columnist J. Wells Dixon, Senior Staff Attorney for the Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative at the Center for Constitutional Rights, says there is a systematic dysfunction within the bureaucracy of the Guantánamo Bay detention (More) |
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Targeted Killings Increasingly Supplant Legal Justice
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Kersten, an MPhil/PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science, says that Gaddafi's death is just one example of worrying trend, in which legal justice is being replaced with targeted killings... (More) |
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Unintended Consequences: Gaddafi's Death and the Arab Spring
JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Toone, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Class of 2012, has spent over two years working and studying in the Middle East, including six months as an embedded civilian social scientist with the First Armored (More) |
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US Response to Gaddafi's Death Sets Bad Precedent
JURIST Guest Columnist Patricia DeGennaro, International Affairs Specialist and Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute, says that the recent killing of Muammar Gaddafi sets a dangerous precedent of deposing dictators through military force over (More) |
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Expedited Justice: Gaddafi's Death and the Rise of Targeted Killings
JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of Ave Maria School of Law says that the death of Muammar Gaddafi and one of his sons exemplifies an emerging trend towards the use of targeted and extrajudicial killings instead of attempts to capture and prosecut (More) |
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Alleged Iran assassin pleads not guilty in federal court
Manssor Arbabsiar pleaded not guilty in a New York district court on Monday to charges stemming from his role in the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Adel al-Jubeir , Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the US, on US soil. Arbabsiar, a US citizen, is al (More) |
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Bahrain court hears appeals of 20 convicted medics
A Bahrain court on Sunday began hearing the appeals of 20 medical staff members convicted last month of participating in the country's pro-democracy protests against the ruling regime. The 13 doctors, one dentist, nurses and paramedics who were jail (More) |
Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, murdered by Henry II's knights
On December 29, 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by knights acting in the name of Henry II.
Becket and Henry had been entangled in a power struggle over, among other things, criminal jurisdiction over clergy. Read a contemporary account of the murder of Thomas Becket.
