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Egyptian judge involved in mass sentences of Muslim Brotherhood removed from post
Egyptian judge Said Youssef was removed from his position on the Minya Criminal Court of Egypt [Middle East Monitor news archive] on Tuesday to a seat on the civilian judicial court in Egypt. The Minya court, known as one of the nation's terrorism (More) |
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HRW urges Putin to veto restrictions on media freedom
Human Rights Watch on Wednesday urged Russian president Vladimir Putin to veto a series of amendments that would severely limit the freedom of the media. The new amendments seek to limit foreign involvement in Russian media by prohibiting any for (More) |
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Georgia judge denies death row inmate's challenge to state intellectual disability standard
A judge from Georgia's Towaliga Judicial Circuit ruled Monday that death row inmate Warren Lee Hill has failed to meet the state's requirement to prove intellectual disability beyond a reasonable doubt as a bar to execution. Hill's lawyers argued (More) |
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California governor signs bill banning plastic bags
California Governor Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed a bill issuing a statewide ban against single-use plastic bags. Beginning in July 2016 grocery and convenience stores across the state will be required to supply reusable, multi-purpose bags to cu (More) |
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UN rights expert urges Mexico to investigate extrajudicial killings
The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Christof Heyns urged Mexico to conduct full and impartial investigations into the killings on June 30 in the village of Cuadrilla Nueva, Tlataya, State of Mexico, during a (More) |
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Judicial Backsliding in Russia
JURIST Guest Columnist William Partlett, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, discusses recent reforms to Russia's judicial system ... Russia is well known for having poor rule of law. Recent empirical research, however, suggests t (More) |
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Afghanistan outgoing president approves execution of 5 men
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday approved the execution of five men as what is possibly his final act in office. The five men were convicted and sentenced to death two weeks ago for their involvement in the armed robbery and gang-rap (More) |
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California outlaws 'gay panic' homicide defense
California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed into law a bill , prohibiting the so-called "gay panic" defense that has been used to reduce homicide charges to manslaughter. The defense has been used by defendants who claimed that they were "pa (More) |
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UN officials call for international abolition of death penalty
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and a number of UN officials on Thursday urged global leaders to abolish the death penalty. In in a presentation and accompanying report entitled "Moving Away from the Death Penalty," (More) |
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Russia high court upholds ban on 'homosexual propaganda'
The Constitutional Court of Russia ruled Thursday that the law banning "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" among minors is not in breach of the Russian Constitution . The controversial law , which entered into force in June 2013, was c (More) |
Supreme court overturns racially restrictive covenants
On May 3, 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that racially-restrictive covenants violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, even covenants between private individuals. In Shelley v. Kraemer, the Court overturned a covenant among members of a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri that restricted home sales to only white families.
