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US seeks deportation of El Salvador general for human rights crimes
The Obama administration on Monday charged General Eugenio Vides Casanova, former defense minister of El Salvador, for human rights crimes committed during El Salvador's 12-year civil war while he served as the country's top military officer. The U (More) |
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Petitioning Congress on Qur'an Burning
JURIST Contributing Editor Liaquat Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the recent events in the US are a continuation of a Western medieval custom of desecrating the Qur'an... The recent Qur'an burning by Pastor Terry Jones, the a (More) |
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Syria emergency laws to be lifted: president
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad [Al Jazeera profile; JURIST news archive] on Saturday announced in a televised speech that he will lift emergency laws that have been in place for 48 years. For the past four weeks, tens of thousands of protesters h (More) |
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Kazakhstan president fires six supreme court justices for corruption
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev [official website, in Kazakh; BBC profile] on Thursday discharged six justices of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan for corruption. The Kazakh Prosecutor-General's Office has opened criminal case (More) |
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UN rights office urges probe into Iraq military raid
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday denounced a deadly Iraqi military raid on a camp housing Iranian exiles. At least 34 people, including women, were shot to death or trampled by military vehicles during the (More) |
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Chile judge orders body of ex-President Salvador Allende exhumed
Chilean Judge Mario Carroza on Friday ordered the exhumation of former president Salvador Allende as part of investigations into his death that began in January. The order follows a request for a new autopsy of the former president from Allende's (More) |
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UN rights council announces members of Ivory Coast post-election violence panel
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) announced on Tuesday the appointment of three "high-level experts" to lead the Commission of Inquiry charged with investigating allegations of human rights abuses in the Ivory Coast following elections. The appo (More) |
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Rights group claims executions by Gaddafi forces constitute war crimes
Amnesty International (AI) on Monday pointed to the executions of opposition fighters as the most recent evidence that forces supporting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] continue to commit war crimes. Researchers fro (More) |
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Syria forces preventing access to medical care for protesters: HRW
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that Syrian security forces have stopped medical personnel, sometimes violently, from attending to injured protesters. A spokesperson for the group called the practice "both inhumane and illegal." Accordin (More) |
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Bahrain rights leader to face military questioning over detainee photos
Bahraini authorities said Monday that the head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights will face questioning by a military prosecutor over allegations that he tampered with photos of a detainee who died in custody. Nabeel Rajab posted a link on his (More) |
Organization of American States established
On April 30, 1948, the Organization of American States (OAS) was established in Bogota, Colombia with the signing of the Charter of the Organization of American States at the Ninth International Conference of American States.
