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Federal court urged to block deportation of detainees to countries with torture record
The United States should not deport foreign detainees back to their home countries if there is reason to believe they will face torture , American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyers argued Thursday. Appearing before the US District Court for the (More) |
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Egypt arrests two Muslim Brotherhood lawmakers
Egyptian officials on Wednesday arrested two lawmakers from the Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder] in order to question them in a case involving "other Brotherhood members," according to a police official speaking anonymo (More) |
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Muslim Brotherhood military trial resumes in Egypt without outside observers
The military trial of 40 senior members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder] resumed in Egypt Sunday despite criticism from Amnesty International regarding the country's failure to allow independent observers into (More) |
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Egypt to lift emergency laws by mid-2008: judiciary minister
Egypt's Judicial Affairs Minister Mufid Shehab said Saturday that the country will lift its 25-year-old state of emergency by June 2008, according to state news agency Mena. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak [official website; BBC profile] promis (More) |
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Two alleged CIA rendition victims join ACLU lawsuit against Boeing subsidiary
Two men who allege that the CIA detained and tortured them in foreign prisons Wednesday joined a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against San Jose-based Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan . Iraqi citizen Bisher al-Rawi a (More) |
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Egypt court refuses to consider release of opposition leader on medical grounds
An Egyptian court rejected a petition from jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] for early release on medical grounds Tuesday, saying that evidence submitted by Nour failed to prove that his medical condition was lif (More) |
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Shi'ism, Sunnism and State Authority in Iraq
JURIST Guest Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the much-discussed ideological divide between Shi'is and Sunnis in Iraq is actually more subtle and complex than is usually depicted... There has b (More) |
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Former Italy military intelligence chief accused of spying on judiciary
Italy's Superior Council of the Magistracy (CSM) , the country's top self-governing judiciary body, has accused the Italian Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI) under the government of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profil (More) |
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Lawyers for Madrid bombings 'mastermind' demand acquittal on last day of trial
Lawyers for Rabei Osman el Sayed , the alleged mastermind behind the 2004 Madrid train bombings , demanded Monday that Osman be acquitted, accusing prosecutors of trying to convict him "based on nothing, and with an astounding frivolousness.&qu (More) |
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Egypt sentences accused Israeli spy to life in prison
An Egyptian state security court convicted Muhammad Sayed Saber of spying for Israel's Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (Mossad) Monday and sentenced the former Egyptian Atomic Energy Agency employee to life in prison. Two for (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.
