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UN Women introduces policy agenda for gender equality
UN Women on Monday released Progress of the World's Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights , the gender-equality organization's flagship report on the status of women around the world. The report "proposes a comprehensive agenda (More) |
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Egypt court sentences 71 Muslim Brotherhood supporters
The Giza Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced 69 Muslim Brotherhood supporter to 25 years in prison for attacking and burning a church in a village near Cairo in 2013 during protests against former president Mohamed Morsi . In addition, Judge Moha (More) |
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HRW: Morsi trial 'badly flawed'
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday said that the trial of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] was "badly flawed" and compromised by due process violations. The former president was convicted on April 21 for (More) |
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HRW criticizes Saudi-led airstrike on Yemen
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement on Thursday denouncing as a violation of the laws of war an airstrike led by the Saudi Arabian coalition that led to the destruction of a humanitarian warehouse in Yemen earlier this month. The attack (More) |
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Egypt court sentences Morsi to 20 years
Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday after being convicted of inciting violence and ordering the killing and torturing of protesters in 2012. The court did not convict Morsi, or any of the 14 other de (More) |
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Kuwait top court orders opposition leader released on bail
Kuwait's supreme court on Monday ordered the release on bail of former opposition leader Musallam al-Barrak , accused of insulting the country's leader. Al-Barrak has a hearing scheduled for May 18 in which the court will render a final judgment on (More) |
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Egypt court sentences Morsi supporters to death
An Egyptian Criminal Court in Giza on Monday sentenced 22 people to death for their involvement in the storming of a police station and killing of an officer on the day Mohamed Morsi was overthrown. The defendants are alleged to be Morsi supporters (More) |
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HRW: Egypt mass trial relied on single witness testimony
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday criticized the mass trial of 51 Muslim Brotherhood supporters, claiming that the government presented no evidence of a crime being committed by the men other than the testimony of a single police officer. Specifi (More) |
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Egypt court sentences 11 to death over soccer riots
An Egyptian court has referred 11 men accused of being involved in deadly 2012 soccer riots to the most senior religious official, the final step before imposing a death sentence. The Grand Mufti is scheduled to give his final decision on May 30. T (More) |
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Morsi chief of staff jailed for abuse of power
A Cairo criminal court on Wednesday jailed the former chief of staff of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi following his conviction for abuse of power. Refaa al-Tahtawi was sentenced to a three-year jail term and ordered to pay a USD $9,000 (More) |
US Supreme Court said FCC could reprimand radio station for broadcasting comedian Carlin's "Filthy Words"
On July 3, 1978, the US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Federal Communications Commission had a right to reprimand New York radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's Filthy Words sketch.
Read FCC v. Pacifica Foundation.
