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Egypt administrative court suspends constitutional panel
Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court on Tuesday effectively suspended the work of the 100-member panel responsible for drafting the country's new constitution after ruling in favor of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the formation of t (More) |
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Europe rights court rules terror suspects will not face torture if extradited to US
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that five terrorism suspects facing extradition from the UK to the US will not face inhumane prison conditions in the US. The court held that British citizens Syed Talha Ahsan, Babar Ahmad [a (More) |
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Tunisia appeals court upholds conviction against ex-president for torture
A Tunisian military appeals court upheld the convictions against ex-president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] on Saturday for torturing military officers over an alleged coup plot in 1991. The appeals court reduced the fou (More) |
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Egypt court sentences former housing minister for corruption
An Egyptian court on Thursday found former housing minister Mohamed Ibrahim Soliman guilty of corruption and sentenced him to a total of eight years in prison. He was charged with violating laws regulating tenders and auctions including profiteering (More) |
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Amnesty urges EU nations to investigate CIA renditions
Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday asked EU member states to reconsider their involvement in the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) extraordinary rendition program of forced transfer and secret detention. During a hearing before the Europe (More) |
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Egypt parliament meets to appoint constitution panel
The Egyptian parliament met on Saturday to appoint the 100-member panel that will draft the country's new constitution. A significant struggle is expected between the Islamists and liberals to reduce over 1,000 nominations to 100 individuals to ser (More) |
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Technological Innovation and Press Censorship
JURIST Guest Columnist Derek Bambauer of Brooklyn Law School says that the increased censorship of journalists worldwide is a result of technological innovations, which facilitate dissemination of information, but heighten the perceived threat to gov (More) |
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Human Rights and Respecting Personal Freedoms in Iraq
JURIST Columnist Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that Iraq's handling of the violence perpetrated against an unpopular group of people may ultimately determine the type of state Iraq will evolve into over the cou (More) |
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Changing the Legal Paradigm of Liberation-Occupation
JURIST Contributing Editor Chibli Mallat of the University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law says that there is no true legal distinction between liberators and occupiers, and that because it does not look like there will be a treaty to distinguish t (More) |
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Switzerland referendum supports law regulating public protests
Swiss voters in a referendum on Sunday supported proposed changes to a Swiss law that imposes heavy fines for people who protest without prior governmental authorization. About 55 percent of voters in Geneva agreed to allow the government to impose (More) |
Jury selection began for Chicago "Black Sox" baseball trial
On July 5, 1921, jury selection began in the trial of eight Chicago White Sox baseball players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
"Shoeless Joe" Jackson and seven others were eventually acquitted, but were later barred from baseball for life. Learn more about the "Black Sox" trial in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
