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Federal jury convicts ex-US soldier in Mahmudiya rape-murder case
A jury in US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky on Thursday convicted former Pfc. Steven D. Green of the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl , and the murder of her family in Mahmudiya. Prosecutors had previously elected to seek the (More) |
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Iran stays execution of men sentenced to death as teens: report
Iranian authorities issued stays of execution Wednesday for two teens sentenced to death for crimes committed as juveniles. The two individuals facing the death penalty, Amir Khaleqi and Safar Angooti, were scheduled to be executed Wednesday mornin (More) |
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Secrecy in China's trials of Tibetan protestors indicates political verdicts
Sophie Richardson [Asia Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch]: "The Chinese government's secrecy in handling unrest in Tibet since the March 2008 protests erupted in Lhasa was highlighted again on April 8, 2009, when a simple dispatch from (More) |
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Rights groups criticize Iran for executing female sentenced to death as juvenile
An Iranian woman sentenced to death for a murder committed as a juvenile was secretly executed Friday, drawing criticism from human rights groups. Delara Darabi, a 23-year-old Iranian artist sentenced to death six years ago as a juvenile on a murder (More) |
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Federal court begins trial of ex-soldier accused in Mahmudiya murder-rape case
The federal trial of a former US soldier accused of raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl in 2006 began Monday. Former US Army Pfc. Steven Green is also charged with killing the girl's family in Mahmudiya, Iraq. During Monday's openi (More) |
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Afghanistan president says controversial law restricting women's rights under review
Afghan President Hamid Karzai [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] told reporters Monday that the controversial Shi'ite personal status law [Reuters backgrounder; JURIST news archive], which limits women's rights, is being amended by the count (More) |
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Burundi urged to repeal law criminalizing homosexuality
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and 60 other groups on Friday urged the Burundian government [joint statement text; press release] to repeal a new law criminalizing homosexuality in the country. The law was promulgated by President Pierr (More) |
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Not the Better Part of Valor: Obama's Duty to Prosecute Torturers
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that President Obama's expressed intent to immunize CIA employees who violated US laws banning torture and cruel treatment while interrogating prisoners breaches the (More) |
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Afghan cleric defends law limiting women's rights
Mohammad Asif Mohseni, a key Shi'ite cleric in Afghanistan, defended a controversial law Saturday that critics say limits women's rights in the country. The measure, called the Shi'ite Personal Status Law , was signed into law last mont (More) |
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Supreme Court declines to review Mumia conviction
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] denied certiorari Monday in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal v. Beard . The Court offered no explanation for their refusal to hear the appeal of journalist and former Black Panther member Mumi (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.
