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Taiwanese Sunflower Movement protestors acquited
On Friday, twenty-two members of the so-called Sunflower Movement were acquitted of charges related [Taiwan News report] to their 2014 occupation of the Legislative Yuan. The activists were protesting plans to pass a trade deal with China. The prote (More) |
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Egypt court sentences defendants over drowning of migrants
An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 56 people to prison for up to 14 years for their involvement in a deadly capsizing of a boat carrying migrants and refugees. The boat capsized close to the Egyptian coast last September, possibly on its way to I (More) |
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Egypt former president Hosni Mubarak released from prison
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was released from prison on Friday after six years in custody. The planned release [Al-Masry Al-Youm report, in Arabic] was announced earlier this month after Mubarak was cleared of a conspiracy to murder (More) |
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Ontario appeals court: reporter must turn over communications with accused terrorist
The Court of Appeal for Ontario on Wednesday affirmed a ruling requiring a Vice Media reporter to turn over materials and communications used to write three stories regarding an accused terrorist in 2014. Ben Makuch communicated with and wrote thr (More) |
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Egypt prosecutor: Mubarak to be released from detention
An Egyptian public prosecutor announced on Monday that former president Hosni Mubarak will be released from detention in a military hospital. During a retrial this month, Mubarak, who was overthrown in 2011, was cleared of conspiracy to murder pro (More) |
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Human rights groups condemn execution of 15 in Jordan
In response to the mass execution of 15 people in Jordan on Saturday, several human rights groups, including Amnesty International (AI) , condemned the hanging as being secretive and conducted "without transparency. This mass execution was largest e (More) |
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Egypt high Court acquits ex-president Mubarak of 2011 civil uprising killings
The Egypt Court of Cassation on Thursday acquitted former president Hosni Mubarak in a retrial of charges that he killed protesters during the civil uprising in 2011 that ended his 30-year reign. Mubarak was initially convicted on these charges a (More) |
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UN urges member states to end use of death penalty
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein reaffirmed the UN's long-standing position against the death penalty Wednesday and urged member states to end its use. In his opening statement at the biennial high-level panel discussion (More) |
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Italy president grants partial pardon to ex-CIA officer
Italian President Sergio Mattarella granted a partial pardon Tuesday for ex-CIA officer Sabrina De Sousa related to the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric form a Milan street in 2003. The cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, "was taken to Egypt for que (More) |
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Portugal court orders extradition of ex-CIA agent to Italy
A Portuguese court ordered the extradition of former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative Sabrina de Sousa to Italy Tuesday for a four-year prison sentence. De Sousa had been convicted in absentia along with 26 other Americans for the ki (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
