Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Kenya's Supreme Court ruled 4-2 Friday to invalidate the recent presidential election. UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee on Thursday expressed grave concern for...
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In a periodic report published on Friday, the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) expressed concern about the racist speech used by politicians and neo-Nazi groups in Russia. According to the report,...
Austria Constitutional Court: okay for government to seize Hitler's birth-home
The Austria Constitutional Court on Friday ruled that the government seizure of the apartment complex where Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was born is constitutional. The Court elaborated [press release, PDF;...
Southern Poverty Law Center sues political website for harassment
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a lawsuit against the founder of the website The Daily Stormer. SPLC filed the suit on behalf of a Montana woman who claims to have been targeted by...
Germany cabinet approves bill requiring social networks to remove hate speech
The cabinet of German Chancellor Angela Merkel approved draft legislation on Wednesday that would impose fines on social media websites for failing to delete users' entries that violate German hate speech laws. The fines ...
The German Constitutional Court on Tuesday rejected efforts to ban the far-right ultranationalist political party National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) , finding the group does not pose a sufficient threat to the German government....
The UK government said Monday it will use its terrorism laws to ban a neo-Nazi group, marking the first time such a step has been taken. The move would make it a crime to be a...
Germany top court finds EU voting threshold unconstitutional
Germany's Karlsruhe court ruled on Wednesday that the 3% voting threshold for political parties to enter the the European Parliament is unconstitutional. The German government lowered the voting threshold from 5% to 3%...
Trial began in Germany Monday for Beate Zschaepe, a neo-Nazi member of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), for alleged complicity in the murder of eight Turks, a Greek and a German policewoman in Germany between 2000 and 2007, as...