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UK freezes assets of suspects in transatlantic plane bombings plot
British banking officials froze the assets [notice, PDF; press release] Friday of 19 suspects believed to be involved in a terrorist plot to blow up multiple planes traveling from UK airports to various destinations in the United States, while also (More) |
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UN rights council to hold special session on Lebanon conflict
The UN Human Rights Council announced Wednesday that it will hold an emergency session on Friday to discuss the ongoing Middle East conflict and its worsening impact on Lebanese citizens. Responding to a special request from Tunisia on behalf of (More) |
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UN panel decries rights violations in Lebanon conflict
The UN Sub-Commission on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights on Monday denounced the "massive denial of human rights" in the ongoing conflict in Lebanon and called on the UN Security Council to work toward a permanent solution (More) |
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The Hezbollah-Israel War: Narratives and 'Legal Truth'
JURIST Guest Columnist and Lebanese presidential candidate Chibli Mallat, professor of law and holder of the EU Jean Monnet Chair at St. Joseph's University in Beirut, says that the historical narratives of the sides in the long-running Arab-Isra (More) |
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Australia Attorney-General calls for banning books that incite terrorism
Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock Wednesday called on Australian states to ban books inciting terrorism in the wake of a recent Australian Classification Review Board (CRB) decision to ban two Islamic books that allegedly incited terror w (More) |
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Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel probably war crimes: Human Rights Watch
Islamic militant group Hezbollah [US State Dept. backgrounder; BBC backgrounder] violated international humanitarian law and likely committed war crimes by firing the rockets that have killed at least a dozen Israelis , whether the attacks were ta (More) |
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Malaysia high court rules turban ban in schools constitutional
The Malaysian Federal Court on Wednesday upheld the expulsion of three students who refused to abide by School Regulations 1997, which prohibits the wearing of Islamic turbans at school. The challenge to the religious dress regulation was brought (More) |
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Indonesia passage of Aceh self-governance bill sets off general strike
Indonesia's House of Representatives has passed a bill giving more autonomy to Aceh province and writing into law the terms of last year's peace agreement with rebels . But former rebels have criticized the law as not going far enough, and (More) |
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German state court rejects headscarf ban
A court in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg Friday threw out a ban on women teachers wearing religious headscarves . The case originated when Baden-Wuerttemberg passed a law in 2004 forbidding "outward expressions that undermine the ne (More) |
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UN rights council votes to review Israel rights record at every session
The new Human Rights Council of the United Nations voted Friday to review alleged human rights abuses by Israel in all future council sessions, a move which was protested by both Israel and the US as unfair. Islamic countries lobbied in favor of (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.
