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France’s Court of Cassation Wednesday upheld a bar association’s ban on barristers wearing religious symbols alongside robes in courtrooms. In June 2019, the Lille Bar Council notified its members that they would be disallowed from wearing “decorations or signs” displaying “religious, philosophical, community or political affiliation or opinion” along with their robes. Sarah Asmeta, a trainee [...]

Egypt’s Supreme State Security Criminal Court Saturday sentenced to death 10 Muslim Brotherhood members who were “convicted of forming armed terrorist groups to carry out hostile operations against police facilities and personnel.” State news agency Middle Eastern News Agency (MENA) reported on the verdict on Sunday. According to MENA, the defendants, whose identities and pleas [...]

The Court of Cassation, France’s highest court, ruled Wednesday to resolve procedural issues in favor of six nonprofit groups in their case against oil giant Total Uganda. Six French and Ugandan civil society organizations (CSOs) brought the case against Total in 2019: Friends of the Earth France, Survie, Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO), CRED, [...]

An Egyptian court Thursday affirmed death sentences for 21 people who were alleged to be Islamic Militants associated with a terror group. Handed down by the Court of Cassation, the country’s highest civilian court, this appeal comes from a ruling delivered by the Cairo criminal court in March 2020 in which 208 suspects were indicted. [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that Turkey has violated the rights of noted Turkish writer and journalist Ahmet Altan under the European Convention on Human Rights arising from his pre-trial detention on charges relating to the attempted coup d’état of July 2016. Altan is a noted 71-year-old journalist from Istanbul and [...]

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday in the joint case of two Romanian escapees extradited from France in 2016, finding that the extradition of one man had been in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, but not of the other. Both applicants had sought to challenge France’s execution of European arrest [...]

The US Fourth Circuit held on Thursday that France is immune from US trademark infringement claims brought by the former owner of “France.com.” Circuit Judge Diana Gribbon Motz, joined by Judges Henry Floyd and Allison Jones Rushing, said the French government did not engage in commercial activity that would negate its sovereign immunity when it [...]

Le Tribunal correctionnel de Paris a déclaré ce lundi l’ancien président français Nicolas Sarkozy coupable d’avoir tenté de corrompre un juge et trafic d’influence lorsqu’il était en fonction dans l’affaire dite « des écoutes ». Sarkozy a été condamné à trois ans de prison, dont deux avec sursis. Le parquet national financier (« PNF ») avait accusé [...]

The Correctional Tribunal of Paris on Monday found former French president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of trying to bribe a judge and influence peddling while serving in office. Sarkozy was sentenced to three years in prison but will only serve one year as his remaining sentence was suspended. Prosecutors had accused Sarkozy and his lawyer Thierry [...]

Turkey’s Court of Cassation on Friday upheld the two-and-a-half-year prison sentence given to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a human rights activist and MP belonging to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on charges of “making propaganda for a terrorist organisation.” In 2016, Gergerlioğlu raised alarm in parliament and on social media platforms about women being subjected to [...]