Terror suspect in 1998 US Embassy bombings pleads not guilty
Suspected terrorist Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai appeared in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday to plead not guilty to charges that he helped plan and conduct surveillance for the bombings of...
European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) prosecutor Jonathan Ratel filed additional charges on Friday against seven Kosovo citizens on trial for illegal kidney trafficking. This is the first time Ratel alleged that...
One Thousand Years of Danger: Spent Nuclear Fuel Production and Management in the US
JURIST Guest Columnist Catherine Jahn, St. John's University School of Law Class of 2013, is the author of the eighth article in a 15-part series from the staffers of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. Jahn suggests how...
Kosovo's parliament approved a penal code with new laws on Friday that require journalists to reveal their sources and make defamation a crime. In response to the new laws, Kosovo's deputy prime minister, Hajredin Kuci, resigned from office [Reuters...
Indigenous Recognition in the Australian Constitution
Anne Twomey, University of Sydney Law School; January 30, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Damian Ugwu, Executive Director of the Social Justice & Advocacy Initiative, says that the recent bill prohibiting same-sex marriage in Nigeria has ominous implications for a broad range of individual rights in the country...On November 29, 2011,...
EU judge places senior Kosovo politician under house arrest on suspicion of war crimes
An EU judge on Thursday placed senior Kosovo politician and parliamentarian Fatmir Limaj under house arrest for one month while awaiting trial on charges of war crimes stemming from the 1998-99 Kosovo war with Serbia [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news...
International Corporate Corruption: The Need for Greater Action
On July 14, 2011, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire came under intense pressure as key members of Congress called for an investigation into the allegations that one of the media mogul’s US-based companies may have violated American bribery and corruption laws. It is not clear yet whether Congress will ultimately respond to the claims that News [...]
Al Qaeda operative suspected in US embassy bombings killed in Somalia
Al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was killed last week by security forces at a checkpoint in Somalia. Mohammed was on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists Lists for his involvement in the 1998 US...
