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Egypt arrests Muslim Brotherhood members for posting campaign fliers
Egyptian security forces Tuesday arrested five members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder] as they were posting campaign fliers on behalf of Muslim Brotherhood candidates slated to run in local council elections sc (More) |
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Egypt Muslim Brotherhood arrests threaten local elections: HRW
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday criticized Egypt for arresting over 800 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood [party website; FAS backgrounder], including 148 candidates slated to run in local council elections scheduled for April 8. HRW (More) |
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UN SG condemns 'offensively anti-Islamic' film, calls for calm response
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Friday condemned a film made by far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders that criticizes the Koran, calling it "offensively anti-Islamic." In a statement , Ban said:I condemn, in the strongest terms, the ai (More) |
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Iraq Five Years On: An Iraqi Legislative Perspective
JURIST Contributing Editor Haider Ala Hamoudi of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that the mixed success to date of Iraqi legislative initiatives aimed at rebuilding the country's legal order suggests that true progress and stabili (More) |
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Iraq human rights situation 'disastrous:' Amnesty
The human rights situation in Iraq is "disastrous" five years after the US-led invasion of the country, according to a report from Amnesty International released Monday. According to the report's introduction:Five years after the US (More) |
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Democracy Day in Pakistan: No Pardon for Musharraf
JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the new Pakistani parliament should prosecute Pervez Musharraf for crimes committed against the constitution and people of Pakistan, and resist any pressure to pardon (More) |
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Military commission charges confirmed against Guantanamo detainee al-Qosi
The US Department of Defense said Wednesday that two charges have been referred [PDF text; press release] against Guantanamo Bay detainee Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi [DOD materials; GlobalSecurity profile]. The military commission charges referred (More) |
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Afghanistan lawmakers rally against reprinting of Muhammad cartoons
Some 200 Afghan parliamentarians demonstrated Tuesday at the parliament building in Kabul against last month's reprinting of a cartoon depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Poste . The protesters urged the gover (More) |
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Algeria officials visit Guantanamo Bay detainees
Algerian Justice Minister Tayeb Belaiz on Sunday confirmed that officials from the country had visited the US base at Guantanamo Bay to identify Algerian detainees, and said that although the country would accept repatriation of the 17 still held t (More) |
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Sudan condemns Denmark over reprinting of Muhammad cartoons
Sudanese President Omar El Bashir Wednesday addressed a massive rally in Khartoum protesting the reprinting of a cartoon depiction of the Muslim prophet Muhammad by Jyllands-Poste earlier this month, saying that he would ban all Danish citizens f (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.
