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Federal court begins habeas hearings for Guantanamo detainees
Judge Richard Leon of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday began habeas corpus hearings for six Algerians challenging their detention at Guantanamo Bay. The hearings are the first to be held since the Supreme Court grant (More) |
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Europe court overturns EU ruling rejecting Netherlands automobile emissions law
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) [official website; JURIST news archive] Thursday ruled that the European Commission (EC) [official website; JURIST news archive] should not have overturned a Dutch law requiring all new diesel-fueled vehicles to (More) |
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Saudi activists launch 48-hour hunger strike for legal reforms
A collective of Saudi citizens began a 48-hour hunger strike Thursday to protest what it called the illegal detention of 11 political reformists and to call for judicial reform. The protesters, who include Saudi lawyers, scholars, and activists, ho (More) |
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Israel derides 'discriminatory' UN rights council
Israeli deputy permanent representative to the UN Daniel Carmon on Tuesday accused the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website; JURIST news archive] of "targeting Israel in an obsessive and discriminatory fashion" and "fai (More) |
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Osborne case forces Supreme Court to consider use of post-trial evidence
Richard C. Dieter [Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center]: "Almost every state in the country guarantees defendants the right to have DNA evidence tested after their trial. Unfortunately for William Osborne, Alaska is not one of (More) |
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UN human rights committee urges Japan to abolish death penalty
The UN Human Rights Committee on Friday urged Japan to take steps to abolish the death penalty , reiterating its concern that the number of crimes punished by death in Japan has not been reduced and that the number of executions has steadily increa (More) |
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The Omar Khadr Case: Redefining War Crimes
JURIST Guest Columnist Audrey Macklin of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, who recently observed the US military commissions at Guantanamo Bay for Human Rights Watch, says that the prosecution's argument in the case against Canadian natio (More) |
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ICC president says ICC at critical ten-year stage
International Criminal Court (ICC) President Judge Phillippe Kirsch told the UN General Assembly Thursday that the ICC is at a "critical stage" ten years after its creation. Presenting his annual report [text, PDF; ICC press release; UN (More) |
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Myanmar court sentences nine activists for disrupting prison trial
A court in military-ruled Myanmar [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] on Wednesday sentenced nine activists to six months in prison after they complained that their trials were being held in secret, according to a statement by one of their lawye (More) |
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Myanmar opposition activists sentenced to prison for 2007 demonstrations
A Myanmar court sentenced six leading opposition activists to prison terms Friday in connection with their involvement in pro-democracy demonstrations during the abortive 2007 Saffron Revolution [Independent backgrounder]. All six are members of the (More) |
WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban
On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans.
Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.
