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ICC delays preliminary hearing for Congo war crimes suspect
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday postponed [order, PDF; press release] the confirmation of charges hearing for Congolese war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda in order to give prosecutors more time to prepare their case. The hearing, w (More) |
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Hungary prosecutors charge accused Nazi with war crimes
Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged Laszlo Csatary, a 98-year-old Hungarian man, with the unlawful execution and torture of people in connection with the Holocaust. Slovakian authorities began the investigation of Csatary in September after he (More) |
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Is Egypt's Stance on the Blue Nile Dam Legally Justified?
JURIST Guest Columnist Zeray Yihdego of the University of Aberdeen Law School examines several legal issues arising from the dispute over the Blue Nile Dam between Egypt and Ethiopia... (More) |
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UN rights council condemns foreign military involvement in Syria
The UN Human Rights Council on Friday passed a resolution the use of foreign fighters in the Syrian Civil War , responding to an influx of foreign militants on both sides of the conflict, including Lebanese Hezbollah militants supporting the Syrian (More) |
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UN rights office: Syria death toll at 93,000
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay announced Thursday that the death toll in the Syrian conflict has now reached at least 93,000. According to the UN's data specialists, this estimate represents only recorded deaths where the name, (More) |
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The Turkish Spring: Lawyers Rounded Up
JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law aruges that the Turkish government must stop the violence against its own people... (More) |
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Quebec government introduces right to die legislation
The government of the Canadian province of Quebec introduced a bill Wednesday that would permit doctors to provide patients with medical aid to die. Quebec Social Services Minister Veronique Hivon introduced the bill before the National Assembly . (More) |
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UK court upholds expulsion of Chagos islanders in marine protected area
The High Court in London ruled Tuesday that the British government acted legally when it set up the Chagos Conservation Trust (CCT) in 2010 on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Chagos . In 1965, the UK government severed the Chagos Islands from the c (More) |
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Supreme Court rejects Rumsfeld torture suit appeal
The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in an appeal from two US citizens who were detained and tortured by US forces in Iraq. In Vance v. Rumsfeld [docket; cert. petition, PDF], the court was asked to consider whether federal courts may (More) |
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UN rights expert concerned over Palestinian rights violations
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, on Thursday emphasized in a speech to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that efforts to mask the human rights violations in the occu (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.
