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Israel PM denies prisoner exchange deal with Palestinian militants
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert [official website; BBC profile] denied rumors Monday that a deal was underway to trade Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Cpl. Gilad Shalit , an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian militants since June 25 . In a (More) |
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Egypt negotiating release of Israeli soldier held by Hamas
Egyptian-mediated negotiations to free an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian Hamas militants are ongoing, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak [official profile; BBC profile] told a Cairo newspaper Saturday. The capture of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit b (More) |
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Terror and the Enemies Within: Fighting the Right Battles for Britain
JURIST Special Guest Columnist H.A. Hellyer of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK, says that if Britain must now fight "enemies within" in its escalated war on terror, it should be sure to fight the right (More) |
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Israel weighs prisoner exchanges to bring home captured soldiers
A plan devised by Egyptian mediators calls for Israel to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the return of an Israeli soldier held by Hamas [CFR backgrounder; JURIST news archive], Reuters reported Tuesday, citing an anonymous source. Und (More) |
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Egypt court frees 11 Muslim Brotherhood members jailed after judiciary protests
An Egyptian appeals court ruled Monday that 11 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder] jailed since May after participating in pro-judicial independence protests earlier this year should be released from detention (More) |
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Ethiopia ratifies nuclear test-ban treaty as US, China, Iran and Israel remain holdouts
Ethiopia on Tuesday submitted its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) [text; VRS backgrounder, PDF] to the UN Secretary-General. The CTBT bans any nuclear explosion, for testing purposes or otherwise, and was adopted (More) |
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Afghan parliament approves second Karzai nominee for chief justice
The parliament of Afghanistan [JURIST news archive; official website] on Monday confirmed Abdul Salam Hazami as chief justice of the Afghan Supreme Court after rejecting an earlier nominee put forward by President Hamid Karzai . Hazami's new no (More) |
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Italy agent says CIA planned more than 10 renditions of Muslims
A senior Italian intelligence official has told prosecutors that the US Central Intelligence Agency had planned to kidnap more than 10 Muslims suspected of terrorism from Italy and elsewhere and deliver them to Middle Eastern countries for interrog (More) |
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Israel v. Hezbollah: Article 51, Self-Defense and Pre-emptive Strikes
JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that Article 51 of the UN Charter is probably broad enough to cover Israel's actions against Hezbollah in Lebanon following the kidnappings of its soldiers but would (More) |
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GOP duo propose compromise immigration reform plan
Two Republican members of the US Congress announced a proposal Tuesday to bridge the gap between the Senate and House versions of immigration reform legislation . The plan devised by US Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and US Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN (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.
