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Rights group: Saudi Arabia must end trial of human rights lawyer
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday called on the Saudi government to immediately end the 18-month prosecution of human rights lawyer Walid Abu al-Khair . Abu al-Khair is known for his defense of other human rights activists, including a group o (More) |
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Egypt prosecutors order Mubarak sent back to prison
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile; JURIST news archive] was ordered by the prosecutor's office on Wednesday to return to prison from the military hospital where he was staying after he appeared healthy at a hearing on Mond (More) |
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Egypt court orders release of Mubarak
A Cairo Court of Appeals ordered the release of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile; JURIST news archive] on Monday, as he served the maximum two years in temporary detention. However, he will remain in custody until his fra (More) |
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Trial for Mubarak ends after judge recuses himself
The trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak [Al Jazeera profile; JURIST news archive] ended only a few minutes after it began on Saturday when the judge recused himself because of a conflict of interest. Mubarak, who ruled Egypt from 1981 u (More) |
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Egypt upper house approves new election law
The Shura Council, Egypt's upper house of parliament , on Thursday approved a revised election law that sets new rules for lower house elections to be held later this year. The law provides that the People's Assembly, Egypt's lower house of parliame (More) |
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Rights group urges Egypt President to address sectarian violence
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called upon Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] Wednesday to do more to address violence between religious groups. Nadim Houry, deputy director for Middle East and North Africa at HRW, releas (More) |
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Federal judge sets January trial date for Bin Laden's son-in-law
Judge Lew Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York announced on Tuesday that the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, son-in-law of Osama Bin Laden [WP obituary; JURIST news archive], is scheduled for January 7, 2014. Kaplan s (More) |
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Egypt top judges urge Prosecutor General to resign
Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council on Sunday urged Prosecutor-General Talaat Abdallah to resign and return to his former position as a judge. Abdallah has been criticized by the liberal opposition who accuse him of targeting critics of President Moha (More) |
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J'Accuse Twitter
JURIST Guest Columnist Karl M. Manheim of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles says Twitter should comply with French law, but only within that jurisdiction.... (More) |
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Italy pardons US colonel in CIA extraordinary rendition case
Italian president Giorgio Napolitano on Friday pardoned US Air Force Colonel Joseph Romano of his conviction related to the US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) abduction and extraordinary rendition of Egyptian cleric and terror suspect Osama M (More) |
Sir Thomas More beheaded for treason
On July 6, 1535, former Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas More was beheaded in London after being convicted of treason against King Henry VIII.
More had not supported the King's policy toward the church or his marriage to Anne Boleyn, had refused to swear to the Act of Succession, and had similarly declined to take the Oath of Supremacy. His last words before execution are said to have been "The King's good servant, but God's first."
