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Morocco sentences three former Guantanamo detainees
Morocco state news agency MAP reported Friday that a criminal court in Salé, a twin-city of the capital Rabat, has sentenced three former Guantanamo Bay detainees to prison for their involvement in terror activities. Mohamed Slimani was sen (More) |
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Thailand drops charges against Muslim protesters
The new government of Thailand has dropped charges against 92 Muslim participants in a 2004 anti-government protest. The news comes a day after interim Prime Minister Chulanont Surayud [official website, BBC profile] apologized to Muslim leaders i (More) |
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Thailand to probe human rights violations by former government
Thai interim Prime Minister Chulanont Surayud [official website; BBC profile] Thursday promised to investigate allegations of human rights violations by the government of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra . Speaking to Muslim leaders in the (More) |
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Moroccan detainee released from Guantanamo reported missing
The Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) says that a Moroccan detainee held at Guantanamo Bay who was supposedly transferred to the government of Morocco on October 12 is missing, according to his family. Younes Chekkouri was allegedly ar (More) |
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Tunisia presses enforcement of Muslim headscarf ban
The Tunisian government has launched a new campaign against the public wearing of hijabs , the headscarves worn by many Muslim women in the predominantly Islamic state north African state. Police have begun stopping Muslim women wearing the hijab o (More) |
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Pluralism and the Iraqi Constitution: Critical Issues For All of Us
JURIST Guest Columnist Chibli Mallat, visiting professor at Princeton University and the EU Jean Monnet Professor in Law at St. Joseph's University in Beirut, Lebanon, says that Iraq's constitutional response to pluralism may yet make it an e (More) |
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The Military Commissions Act: Congress Commits to the War on Terror
JURIST Contributing Editor Jeffrey Addicott of St. Mary's University School of Law, formerly a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, says the new Military Commissions Act reflects a clear and much-needed Congressional (More) |
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Iran slams new US sanctions law
Iran Sunday condemned a bill signed into law by President Bush Saturday authorizing US sanctions against foreign governments that provide support for Iran's nuclear program or contribute towards the country's armament. The Iran Freedom Supp (More) |
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The Arar Report: The US Should Follow Canada's Lead
JURIST Guest Columnist Jules Lobel, a lawyer for Maher Arar and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, says that the US government and federal courts should follow the lead of a recently-completed Canadian inquiry by acknowledging (More) |
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Bush administration seeks dismissal of Oregon NSA surveillance suit
Lawyers for the US Department of Justice Thursday asked the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a ruling of Judge Garr King of US District Court in Portland to allow a lawsuit by the US branch of the Saudi Arabia-based Al-Haramain Islamic (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.
