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Moussaoui jury hears testimony from jailed terrorist
The jury in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial heard testimony Wednesday that, during a visit to Malaysia in 1999, a man matching Moussaoui's description told Islamic militant Fauzi bin Abu Bakar Bafana that he he'd had a dream about (More) |
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Islamic charity sues to shut down NSA warrantless wiretapping program
An Oregon chapter of the defunct Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday that the National Security Agency had illegally wiretapping several conversations between the charity and its attorneys. The compl (More) |
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Paris trial begins for Islamist suspect in 1995 transit bombings
Algerian Islamist Rachid Ramda has gone on trial in France for his alleged role in several deadly bomb attacks in Paris in 1995. Ramda was arrested in Britain in 1995, but delayed his extradition ten years until December 2005 with a series of ap (More) |
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Muhammad cartoons prompt charges in Belarus as Canada press cleared
Belarus newspaper Zgoda has been criminally charged for reprinting cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad that have sparked violent protests across the Muslim world. The Belarus State Security Committee , still known as the KGB, has cited Zgoda (More) |
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International brief ~ Sudan rejects UN peacekeeping force in Darfur
Leading Tuesday's international brief, Sudan has issued a formal protest to the UN Envoy to Sudan Jan Pronk over his lobbying for a UN peacekeeping force in the Darfur region , and has rejected the growing call for the African Union to hand over (More) |
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US public diplomacy chief defends Gitmo prison on Arab junket
Echoing views expressed by US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld last week, US Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs and one-time top Bush aide Karen Hughes Monday defended US practices at Guantanamo Bay and rejected t (More) |
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Denmark may ban religious slander after Muhammad cartoons furor
The Danish ambassador to Saudi Arabia has said that Denmark will take steps to ban religious slander in accordance with Danish and European laws, according to reports Monday. As a result of the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad , Am (More) |
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Muhammad cartoons furor kills 15 in Nigeria as Saudi papers print newspaper apology
A Saturday protest by Nigerian Muslims in the northeastern city of Maiduguru over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad led to sectarian violence in which at least 15 people were killed, 15 Christian churches were burned, and dozen (More) |
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A Danish Trojan Horse: Law and the Muhammad Cartoons
JURIST Guest Columnist Bernard Freamon of Seton Hall University Law School says that Danish prosecutors should revisit their decision not to charge the Danish newspaper editors responsible for the initial printing of the satirical Muhammad cartoons b (More) |
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Russian prosecutors probe cartoons republication as more die in world protests
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office [MosNews backgrounder; official website in Russian] announced Friday that it has begun an investigation of newspaper editor Anna Smirnova whose newspaper Nash Region reprinted controversial caricatures 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.
