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UK Supreme Court president warns funding method threatens judicial independence
UK Supreme Court President Nicholas Phillips warned in a speech [text, PDF; UCL materials] Tuesday that the Supreme Court's reliance on the Ministry of Justice for funding threatens the court's independence. Phillips explained that unexpectedly l (More) |
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Iraq government torturing detainees in secret prisons: Amnesty
The Iraqi government is operating secret prisons, and suspects held in Iraqi custody have been systematically tortured since before the 2003 US invasion, according to a Tuesday report from Amnesty International (AI) . The report, "Broken Bodies, To (More) |
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UNITED STATES: The Danger of Highly Politicized Country Conditions in an Asylum Case
Christian Ohanian, University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel-Hill Law '11, is a certified legal student at the University of North Carolina's Immigration and Human Rights Policy Clinic. He writes about the difficulty confronting asylum applicants fro (More) |
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Sudan president accepts South's vote for independence
A total of 98.83 percent of nearly 3.8 million southern Sudanese voters voted in favor of secession in last month's Southern Sudan's Independence Referendum, according to the final polling results released Monday by the Southern Sudan Referendum Co (More) |
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Iran prison officials executed over protester deaths
The Iranian government has executed two men convicted of killing three anti-government protesters in prison in 2009, according to a report Sunday by pro-government website Khabarnameh Daneshjooyan. The execution of the two prison officials was repo (More) |
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Federal judge upholds detention of Yemeni at Guantanamo
A federal judge on Thursday upheld the detention of Mashur Al Sabri , a Saudi-born Yemeni citizen who was captured between Afghanistan and Pakistan and detained as an enemy combatant in December 2002. Sabri is currently 32 years old and has been hel (More) |
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Cuba to free 2 more political prisoners
The Cuban Roman Catholic Church announced Friday that Cuban officials have agreed to release two more political prisoners. The agreement includes allowing Angel Moya to stay in Cuba and Guido Sigler to go to the US. Moya is only the second prisone (More) |
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Rights group claims Guantanamo detainee death shows failure of detention system
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on Thursday used the death of a Guantanamo detainee to highlight what it claims are problems with the detention system currently used by the US for dealing with suspected terrorists. The detainee, Awal G (More) |
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HRW calls for end to police violence in Tunisia protests
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for an end to police attacks and an investigation into the deaths of protesters in Tunisia. The protest movement in Tunisia ousted former president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali , sending him into exile, and the UN rep (More) |
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UN rights chief offers Haiti assistance with Duvalier prosecution
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay , offered technical assistance on Tuesday to Haitian authorities in the prosecution of former Haitian president Jean-Claude Duvalier [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] for serious human rights (More) |
Peace treaty between Japan and 48 nations formally ended WWII
On April 28, 1952, a peace treaty between Japan and 48 nations took effect, formally ending World War II.
Review the terms of the San Francisco Treaty.
