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Guantanamo detainee transfers put US in tight spot
Ashley Deeks [International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, and Visiting Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies]: "Last week the Department of Defense confirmed that Abdullah Saleh Ali al Ajmi, a former Guantanamo d (More) |
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Italy court rules Berlusconi can be called to testify in CIA rendition case
Italian Judge Oscar Magi ruled on Wednesday that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] can be called to testify in the trial of 26 Americans and several former Italian intelligence officials for the 2003 abduction and (More) |
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Egypt court fines newspaper editor for reporting on labor dispute
An Egyptian court Thursday ordered the editor of independent newspaper al-Badeel to pay a $2,000 fine for publishing an article about labor disputes in the state-owned Middle East News Agency . Mohammed Sayyed was convicted of libel, and also ordere (More) |
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Egypt court silent on charges for convicted Muslim Brotherhood members: lawyers
An Egyptian military court has yet to release details of the charges on which 25 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder] were convicted and sentenced Tuesday, a lawyer for the Brotherhood told Reuters Thursday. In (More) |
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Berlusconi testimony sought in defense of Italy ex-spy chief in CIA rendition case
Lawyers for former Italian Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI) chief Nicolo Pollari said Wednesday that they have included Italian Prime Minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi as a requested witness to testify in support of Pollari's assertion (More) |
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Australia court deals setback to ex-Guantanamo detainee compensation claim
The Federal Court of Australia Wednesday ruled against former Guantanamo detainee Mamdouh Habib [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] in an ongoing claim for compensation against the Australian government, which he accused of being complicit in tortur (More) |
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Egypt military court sentences 25 Muslim Brotherhood members to prison
An Egyptian military court handed down its final verdict Tuesday in the military trial of 40 senior members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder], sentencing 25 of the accused to prison time and acquitting 15 others. Th (More) |
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Will the Universal Periodic Review Save the UN Human Rights Council?
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Ophélie Namiech, a Legacy Heritage Fellow working for UN Watch in Geneva, says that to restore the credibility of the UN Human Rights Council governments that care about human rights must commit themselves to (More) |
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Egypt prosecutors charge opposition leader with inciting violence
Egyptian prosecutors Thursday charged the co-founder of pro-reform opposition movement Kifaya with inciting unrest and violence in association with a nationwide labor strike last Sunday. George Ishaq and 60 other members of the Kifaya movement were (More) |
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HRW: CIA transferred terror suspects to Jordan as part of rendition program
Human Rights Watch accused the CIA Tuesday of transferring terror suspects to Jordan [report; press release] following September 11, saying that the US sent them there for interrogations as part of the CIA's rendition program . HRW reported tha (More) |
Justinian I issues Corpus Juris Civilis
On April 7, 529 - Byzantine Emperor Justinian I issued the first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law). The Justinian Code represented a revival of Roman Law and a compilation of laws for the Byzantine Empire. It became the foundation of Canon Law in the Catholic Church and Civil Law in modern Europe.
Learn more about the Corpus Juris Civilis from the University of Wyoming College of Law.
