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Chief Guantanamo prosecutor agrees to try al Qaeda conspirator in federal court
Mark Martins , the chief war crimes prosecutor for the US military commissions at Guantanamo, said on Monday that he had participated in the decision [Miami Herald report] to bring the case of suspected terrorist Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai to the US (More) |
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UN rights office criticizes harsh sentence for Qatar poet
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday called for the immediate release of well known Qatari poet Mohammed al Ajami, also known as Ibn al Dheeb, who received a harsh sentence for a poem believed to encourage a c (More) |
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A Rope for Rape?
JURIST Guest Columnist Ashish Goel, an LL.M. candidate at King's College London, discusses a recent death penalty conviction and how to improve India's current system... (More) |
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Schuette Oral Argument: The Appalling Supreme Court
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law examines the recent oral arguments in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action ... (More) |
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International rights experts call for concerted global response to human trafficking
A UN independent rights expert on Friday joined with two other key international anti-trafficking expert mechanisms to call for global cooperation in the fight against the transnational trafficking of persons. Human rights experts from the UN, the (More) |
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Bosnia police arrest 8 suspected war criminals
The Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced on Thursday that police have arrested eight men suspected of committing war crimes during the Bosnian Civil War . The eight Serb men were arrested in Rogatica, the city in which the susp (More) |
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Russia court upholds opposition leader's conviction, suspends sentence
A Russian appeals court on Wednesday upheld the embezzlement conviction of Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's chief political opponent, but suspended his five-year jail sentence, allowing him to walk free. Navalny was sentenced to five year (More) |
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AI: Nigeria must investigate detainee deaths
Amnesty International on Tuesday urged the Nigerian government to investigate the deaths of hundreds of people detained by the country's military Joint Task Force (JTF). Evidence gathered by AI reveals that more than 950 people have died in milita (More) |
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Rethinking Australian Investment Treaty Policy
JURIST Guest Columnist Simon Lester of the Cato Institute says that the newly elected coalition in Australia may alter the country's current stances on certain international investment rules... (More) |
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Rights groups urge DOJ probe of 1985 bombing
Civil rights groups on Monday requested that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) renew its investigation into the 1985 bombing of a California office building that killed Palestinian-American civil rights leader Alex Odeh. An online petition , which (More) |
World Press Freedom day
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day.
On May 3, 1845, Macon B. Allen, the first African American to practice law in the United States, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar.
Read a contemporary newspaper account of his admission.
