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Rights group urges Iraqi court to spare Saddam VP
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) [official website; HRW backgrounder] Sunday to spare the life of former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile; JURIST news archive] citing a lack of evidence tying (More) |
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UN rights chief files legal challenge to stop possible execution of Iraqi ex-VP
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour filed an amicus curiae or "friend of the court" brief [PDF text; press release] with the Iraqi High Tribunal Thursday arguing that imposing the death penalty on former Iraqi Vice Presid (More) |
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Ethiopia prosecutor seeking death penalty for former dictator on appeal
The prosecutor in the genocide case against former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] announced Thursday that he is appealing last month’s sentence of life imprisonment , and will again push for the dea (More) |
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UK corporate manslaughter bill stalls after Lords extend liability to prison deaths
A proposed bill on corporate manslaughter came to a standstill in the UK House of Lords on Monday when Conservative and Liberal Democrats voted for an amendment which broadened the scope of the law to include deaths in prisons and police cells. The (More) |
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Tennessee governor stops executions pending procedural review
Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen issued an executive order [PDF text; press release] Thursday, directing the Tennessee Commissioner of Corrections to conduct a "comprehensive review of the manner in which death sentences are administered... an (More) |
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North Carolina doctors should be commended for refusing to aid executions
Liliana Segura : "The Campaign to End the Death Penalty applauds the decision of the North Carolina Medical Board to refuse physician participation in executions, leading Judge Donald Stephens to halt executions in the state. The North Carolina (More) |
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Morocco confirms it will end death penalty
Morocco will become the first Arab country to eliminate the death penalty , a state representative confirmed on Thursday. President of the Consultative Committee on Human Rights, Ben Dhikri, made the comments in the run-up to this week's 3rd Wor (More) |
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EU taking 'measured' approach to world death penalty abolition after UK balks
The European Union has agreed to adopt a "measured, step-by-step approach" to achieving a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty, according to German Minister of State Gunter Gloser, addressing the European Parliament on Wednesday. Th (More) |
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First new Guantanamo detainee charges expected by Friday: chief prosecutor
New war crimes charges will be filed against Guantanamo Bay detainees beginning as early as Friday, chief prosecutor Col. Moe Davis (USAF) said Tuesday. Davis said, however, that charges are only expected to be filed against a few of the 10 detain (More) |
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Libya police officers to face Bulgaria torture charges in medic AIDS case
Bulgarian prosecutor Nikolay Kokinov said Tuesday that he plans to file charges against eleven Libyan police officers who are accused of torturing five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor, who have been convicted and sentenced to death by (More) |
India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster
On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court.
Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.
