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US Supreme Court declines to rehear child rape case
The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Wednesday declined to reconsider last term's decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana [Duke Law backgrounder; JURIST report], holding that Louisiana could not impose the death penalty for t (More) |
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US Supreme Court stays execution of Georgia death row inmate
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the execution of Georgia death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis "pending the disposition of the petition for a writ of certiorari." Davis had been scheduled to be executed at 7 PM EDT on Tuesday. Ac (More) |
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Saudi Arabia urged to end discrimination against Shia
Human Rights Watch(HRW) on Monday called on the Saudi Arabian government to end its 'systematic discrimination' against its Ismaili religious minority [official website; Global Security backgrounder]. HRW urged Saudi officials to create a (More) |
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Rights group: China police use torture despite ban
Human Rights in China (HRIC) issued a release on Wednesday saying that Chinese police and other officials still employ torture to elicit confessions and intimidate political dissidents despite domestic and international bans. The group said even (More) |
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HRW calls for global end to juvenile executions
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report [text; press release] Wednesday calling on Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen to join in a global moratorium on the death penalty for juveniles. The report states that the five countries are (More) |
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UN rights office urges Iran to stop executing juvenile offenders
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) urged Iran Tuesday to ban the use of the death penalty against juvenile offenders. The OHCHR statement comes as two Iranian men, identified by Reuters as Mohammad Fadaaee and Amir Am (More) |
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Justice Department set to loosen investigation guidelines once again
Michelle Richardson [Legislative Counsel, ACLU]: "Just when you thought domestic spying power grabs had been put to rest for the duration of this Administration, the Justice Department has publicly announced its intent to go after one of the las (More) |
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Lebanon court issues warrants for Gaddafi, other Libyan officials
Lebanon on Wednesday charged Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi [official website; JURIST news archive] and six other officials with the 1978 disappearance of a prominent Lebanese cleric and issued warrants for their arrests. In Beirut, investigating ma (More) |
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Ninth Circuit finds Falun Gong members eligible for asylum
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday ruled that a Chinese couple are eligible for asylum because they reasonably feared persecution as members of the Falun Gong sect [group website; BBC backgrounder]. Zhao and Duan came to Cal (More) |
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Federal court upholds charges against ex-US soldier in Mahmudiya killings case
A federal judge has rejected constitutional challenges to civilian charges against former US Army Pvt. Steven D. Green in connection with the rape and killing of a 14-year-old girl and the killing of her family in Mahmudiya, Iraq (also "Mahmou (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.
