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UN rights group finds excessive force by Israel
The UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) , a body of independent experts, released closing remarks to its fifty-seventh session Friday, expressing concern about the use of excessive force by Israeli forces against Palestinians. Last week the CAT enga (More) |
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Amnesty: nearly 150 dead in Nigeria military detention
Nearly 150 individuals, including 11 children, have died this year in Nigeria's military detention barracks, Amnesty International (AI) reported [text; press release] Wednesday. According to the report, the Giwa detention barracks detains around 1,2 (More) |
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UN investigators: states must prevent attacks on Syria hospitals
The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria on Wednesday called on factions on both sides of the Syrian civil war to ensure their targets are not unlawful civilian sites such as hospitals. The statement comes after a recent attack on a camp for internall (More) |
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Anti-extremism Pakistan rights activist killed
Pakistani human rights activist Khurram Zaki was killed by unidentified gunmen in Karachi on Saturday, according to local police. Four individuals on motorcycles approached a restaurant Zaki was in and opened fire , killing Zaki and wounding two ot (More) |
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UN official: Syria airstrikes may amount to war crimes
UN top official Stephen O'Brien on Thursday called for the immediate investigation of recent airstrikes in Syria which may amount to war crimes for intentionally targeting civilians. The airstrikes hit two displacement settlements located in Syria (More) |
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UN rights chief concerned over 'monstrous disregard for civilian lives' in Syria
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday urged all parties to disengage from all-out war in Syria, expressing deep concern over a "monstrous disregard for civilian lives." Reports of civilian deaths and injures stemming (More) |
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Waterboarding Is Decidedly and Manifestly Torture
JURIST Guest Colomnist Jordan J. Paust, the Mike & Teresa Baker Professor at the Law Center at the University of Houston, discusses how waterboarding is a form of torture...Professor Jeffrey Addicott has made false statements about Bush/Cheney interr (More) |
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Federal judge rules lawsuit against creators of CIA interrogation program may proceed
A federal judge on Friday ruled that a lawsuit against two former military psychologists who developed the CIA's interrogation program under George W. Bush may proceed. US District Court Judge Justin Quackenbush of the US District Court of the Ea (More) |
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The Unanswered Questions in Evenwel: Voters, Undocumented Immigrants and the American Political Community
JURIST Guest Columnist Michael T. Morley, assistant professor at Barry University School of Law, discusses the recent Supreme Court decision regarding voting districts...The Supreme Court's recent ruling in Evenwel v. Abbott lies at the potentially (More) |
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Zubik v. Burwell: Women and Religion in the Market
JURIST Guest Columnist Lisa C. Ikemoto of University of California-Davis School of Law discusses the latest ACA challenge to appear in front of the US Supreme Court...The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Zubik v. Burwell on March 23, 2016, si (More) |
Reign of Terror begins in French Revolution
On April 6, 1793, the Committee of Public Safety takes power as the executive agency of France during the French Revolution, starting the Reign of Terror. During this period, the Committee sought to eliminate "enemies of the Revolution" by summary trials of noblemen, clergy, merchants, and peasants alike. The Reign of Terror ended with the overthrow the Committee's last and most prominent member, Maximilien Robespierre. By this time, 20,000 to 40,000 Frenchman and women had been executed by guillotine.
Learn more about the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
