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UN rights chief condemns Pakistan blasphemy law
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday condemned the assassination of Pakistani Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti and expressed her opposition to Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law [text; JURIST news archive] (More) |
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Pakistan court issues second warrant for ex-president Musharraf
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday issued a second arrest warrant for former military president Pervez Musharraf [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] for not appearing in court for charges related to the 2007 assassination of former prime mi (More) |
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Pakistan court issues indictment over blasphemy law assassination
A Pakistani court on Monday indicted police guard Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, accused of assassinating liberal politician and governor of Pakistan's Punjab province Salman Taseer for opposing the nation's blasphemy law [text; JURIST news archive]. Q (More) |
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Pakistan issues arrest warrant for former President Musharraf in death of Bhutto
An arrest warrant for former president Pervez Musharraf [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] was issued Saturday by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court in connection with the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto [BBC obituary; JURIST new (More) |
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Pakistan investigators accuse Musharraf in Bhutto assassination
The Federal Investigation Agency of Pakistan on Monday named former president Pervez Musharraf [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] as an accused in the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto [BBC obituary; JURIST news archive]. Mushar (More) |
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Indonesia soldiers sentenced over torture video
Three Indonesian soldiers accused of torturing Papuan detainees received prison sentences Monday of less than one year. Citing lack of evidence , a military judge convicted the men of the lesser crime of insubordination instead of torture. He senten (More) |
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Pakistani men sentenced to life in prison for blasphemy
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court in the province of Punjab on Tuesday sentenced two men to life in prison for violating Pakistan's blasphemy law [text; JURIST news archive]. Mohammad Shafi and his son Mohammad Aslam were convicted in the city of Der (More) |
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Pakistan blasphemy laws will not be changed: PM
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani announced Sunday that he has no intention of revising the country's contentious blasphemy laws [text; JURIST news archive] after Governor Salman Taseer of Punjab province was shot and killed Tuesday appa (More) |
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Pakistan governor opposing blasphemy law assassinated
The governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, Salman Taseer, was shot and killed Tuesday by one of his own security guards, apparently because of his opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy law [text; JURIST news archive]. Taseer, a senior member of the Pa (More) |
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Pakistan court delays efforts to amend blasphemy laws
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday ordered a stay against any amendments to Pakistan's blasphemy laws [text; JURIST news archive] pending further proceedings. The court ruled [The News report] on a petition filed by a citizen, which argued that (More) |
Supreme Court upheld discriminatory districting
On June 10, 1946, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld uneven congressional districting plans in Colegrove v. Green. The case challenged an Illinois districting plan that concentrated voters into large districts in the center of the state and did not balance for population. The Court reasoned that districting was a political question for the states to decide without judicial interference. This opinion was overturned less than 20 years later in Baker v. Carr, which set judicial standards for invoking political question doctrine.
Learn more about political question doctrine from the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law.
