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Inmate religious rights upheld by Fourth Circuit
The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) Friday after inmate Ira Madison sued the Commonwealth of Virginia and various Virginia Department of Corrections officials for (More) |
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Italy prosecutors probing death of man who sought euthanasia
Italian prosecutors have begun an investigation into the death of Piergiorgio Welby , a man who suffered from muscular dystrophy and sought the right to die by euthanasia. Welby's quest to die became a nation-wide debate after Italy's Radic (More) |
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Marines platoon leader charged with murder in Haditha Iraqi civilian killings
US Marines Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich was charged Thursday with 13 counts of murder in connection with the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November, according to Wuterich's lawyer. Officials at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton a (More) |
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Sudan to cooperate with UN rights council mission: justice minister
Sudanese Justice Minister Mohammed Ali al-Mardhi has indicated that Sudan will cooperate with a UN Human Rights Council mission investigating human rights abuses in Darfur , according to reports Monday in local Sudanese media. The Human Rights Cou (More) |
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Israel high court rules some targeted killings legal
The Israeli Supreme Court ruled [opinion text; summary, DOC] Thursday that not all targeted killings of Palestinian militants are prohibited by international law. Two Israeli human rights groups filed a petition in 2002 seeking a ban on the Israel (More) |
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UN rights council sending mission to Darfur
In a special session Wednesday the UN Human Rights Council approved a resolution to send a mission to Sudan to investigate human rights abuses in Darfur . Council President Luis Alfonso de Alba announced his intent to appoint five "highly qua (More) |
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Milosevic trial study recommends changes to war crimes process
A Human Rights Watch study of the five-year trial of late Yugoslav ex-president Slobodan Milosevic released Wednesday has proposed [press release; HRW recorded audio] making changes in future national and international war crimes trial procedures (More) |
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UK appeals court turns down Iraq war inquiry bid
The UK Court of Appeal on Tuesday rejected an attempt to force the government to hold a public inquiry into the UK's decision to go to war in Iraq . Two mothers of soldiers appealed a lower court decision [text; JURIST report] that they could n (More) |
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Federal judge gives California six months to fix prison overcrowding
US District Judge Lawrence Karlton said Monday that the state of California has six months to remedy overcrowding in the state's prison system, which is 70 percent overcapacity with 173,000 total inmates, before he will decide whether to establ (More) |
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The 'Pinochet Precedent': A Mixed Legacy for Human Rights
JURIST Guest Columnist Chandra Lekha Sriram, Chair of Human Rights at the University of East London School of Law (UK), says that while the legal pursuit of late Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet in recent years represented a step forward for (More) |
RFK assassin sentenced to death
On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Review a 1998 statement by Sirhan attorney Larry Teeter claiming Sirhan did not commit the crime. Sirhan was denied parole for the 12th time in March 2003.
