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India court convicts three in 2003 Mumbai bombing
A special Indian terrorism court on Monday found Ashrat Ansari, Hanif Sayed Anees, and Fehmida Sayed guilty of planning and carrying out a 2003 bomb attack in Mumbai that killed 52 people. They were convicted of conspiracy, murder, and attempt to (More) |
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Ohio conducts 1,000th US lethal injection since death penalty reinstatement
Convicted murderer Marvallous Keene on Tuesday became the 1000th person to be executed by lethal injection in the US since the death penalty was reinstated in the 1976 case of Gregg v. Georgia . In 1993, Keene was found guilty of five counts of murd (More) |
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India high court refuses to suspend homosexuality decriminalization ruling
The Supreme Court of India refused Monday to suspend a lower court decision [judgment, PDF; JURIST report] declaring India's anti-sodomy law unconstitutional while it hears an appeal. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court accepted a petition ch (More) |
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Fourth Circuit to rehear oral arguments in Moussaoui appeal
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday ordered new arguments in the case of convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. The court is rehearing the case due to the retirement of Chief Judge Karen Wi (More) |
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Lithuania parliament approves child censorship bill
The Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday approved a bill that would prohibit children from being exposed to information on a number of topics, including homosexuality. The parliament overrode the veto of former president Valdas Adamkus, who had rejecte (More) |
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India Supreme Court to hear homosexuality decriminalization challenge
The Supreme Court of India on Thursday accepted a petition challenging a lower court ruling declaring India's anti-sodomy law unconstitutional. Sushil Kumar Kaushal asked the Court to set aside a ruling by the Delhi High Court , which found t (More) |
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Bangladesh urged to improve war crimes laws
Bangladesh should improve their war crimes laws to bring justice to victims of the 1971 War of Independence from Pakistan, Human Rights Watch urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday. The rights group sent a letter to Hasina applauding the g (More) |
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Sotomayor receives highest ABA ranking
The American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary on Tuesday gave US Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a unanimous "well-qualified" rating . Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Commi (More) |
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India high court rejects bid to replace hanging with lethal injection
The Supreme Court of India on Monday rejected a bid to replace executions by hanging with lethal injections. The suit was brought by rights advocate Ashok Kumar Walia who maintained that hanging executions were cruel and painful [Times of India rep (More) |
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India court declares anti-sodomy law unconstitutional
The Delhi High Court on Thursday decriminalized homosexual conduct by declaring India's anti-sodomy law unconstitutional. In a petition originally filed and rejected by the court in 2004, the Naz Foundation challenged the applicability of Se (More) |
WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban
On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans.
Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.
