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Muslim woman sues Michigan judge who asked her to remove veil
A Muslim woman filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against a judge who asked her to remove her niqab [Wikipedia backgrounder; JURIST news archive] in court, claiming the request violated her First Amendment right to practice her religion. In the laws (More) |
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Pakistan president appoints acting chief justice as suspension protests continue
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf appointed the senior-most judge on the Pakistani Supreme Court as acting chief justice Friday, as thousands of lawyers across the country protested the suspension of former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaud (More) |
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German lawmakers condemn Koran citation in judgment denying divorce
A German judge who cited the Koran as part of her rationale for denying a Muslim woman a fast-track divorce has provoked criticism from German lawmakers and Muslim clerics. The woman, a German citizen of Moroccan descent, had a restraining order aga (More) |
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France newspaper cleared of defamation for Muhammad cartoons republication
A French court Thursday cleared Charlie-Hebdo magazine and director Philippe Val of defamation in last year's republication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad originally published in a Danish newspaper in September 2005. The court ruled tha (More) |
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UnVEILing the law in the UK
Iram Janjua : "The number of practising Muslims in Britain and Europe is increasing with some women preparing to manifest a more stricter affirmation of their religious identity by choosing to wear the niqab (face veil) as opposed to the more co (More) |
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Afghanistan president signs war crimes amnesty bill into law
A revised version of a controversial bill granting amnesty to groups that allegedly committed war crimes was signed into law Saturday by Afghan President Hamid Karzai [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] after being approved earlier in the day by th (More) |
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Afghanistan lower house approves amnesty bill with Karzai revisions
The Wolesi Jirga , the lower house of the Afghan parliament , voted Saturday to approve a revised resolution calling for an amnesty for groups that allegedly committed war crimes . The resolution, revised by President Hamid Karzai [BBC profile; JURI (More) |
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Egypt judge freezes assets of Muslim Brotherhood financiers
An Egyptian judge on Wednesday upheld a prosecutor's decision to freeze the assets of 29 financiers for the Muslim Brotherhood [party website; JURIST news archive]. The Brotherhood is the largest Islamic group in Egypt and, while it is considere (More) |
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Germany high court finds magazine raid violated press freedom
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that authorities violated the freedom of the press when they raided the offices of the monthly political magazine Cicero . In September 2005, investigators searched the offices of Cicero in (More) |
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Egypt blogger appeals prison sentence for insulting Islam online
Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil [advocacy website; HRinfo backgrounder] Monday filed an appeal of his four-year prison sentence on charges of inciting sedition, insulting Islam, harming national unity and insulting the president in remarks he po (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.
