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Rights group suing UK over rendition of suspected terrorist
Human rights group Reprieve announced Tuesday that it is suing the British government [filing letter, PDF; press release] over the rendition of Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni from Indonesia to Egypt, where it says he was tortured. The group alleges tha (More) |
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Egypt to try 26 Hezbollah-linked terror suspects in special state security court
Twenty-six men suspected both of plotting numerous attacks in Egypt [government website; JURIST news archive] and of having links to Hezbollah were transferred Sunday to an emergency state court that deals specifically with terrorism and state secu (More) |
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Egypt court reverses conviction of teacher accused of insulting president
The Adawa court of misdemeanors in the Egyptian city of Menya Saturday reversed the conviction of Mounir Saeed Hannah, a teacher charged with insulting President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak by authoring an unpublished satirical poem. The Arabic Network (More) |
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UN rights investigators conclude Gaza hearings
Investigators from the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday concluded public hearings into alleged violations of international human rights law during December and January's fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza strip. The head of the fo (More) |
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ICC prosecutors appeal decision not to charge Sudan president with genocide
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday appealed the court's decision not to charge Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] with genocide. ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said that the (More) |
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Somalia at the Crossroads: Options for the World Community
JURIST Guest Columnist Zeray Yihdego of Oxford Brookes University School of Social Sciences and Law says that the UN and the world's powers must act to help stabilize Somalia, too long plagued by clan infighting, lawlessness, regional conflict in (More) |
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UN human rights investigators arrive in Gaza
A team of investigators from the UN Human Rights Council arrived in Gaza Monday to begin examining alleged violations of international human rights law during December and January's fighting between Israel and Hamas. The team is headed by forme (More) |
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Failure to release torture photos a symptom of larger "rule of law" problems
Kevin Zeese [Executive Director, VotersForPeace.US, board member of VelvetRevolution.US]: "The images of torture and abuse of prisoners are vivid. They are an embarrassment to a nation that led the efforts for the Geneva Convention which made t (More) |
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Egypt court overturns defamation sentence for rights activist
An Egyptian court on Monday overturned the conviction of dissident Saad Eddin Ibrahim on charges related to defaming Egypt. Ibrahim, founder of the Ibn Khaldoun Centre for Development Studies , has been a prominent human rights activist and outspok (More) |
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Italy CIA rendition trial to continue despite excluded evidence
An Italian judge ruled Wednesday that the trial of 26 Americans and seven Italians involving the 2003 abduction of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr by the CIA will proceed despite excluded evidence. Judge Oscar Magi of the Fourth Chamber (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.
