UN rights experts warn France state of emergency may curtail freedoms
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) warned Tuesday that the current state of emergency and law on surveillance in France may impose "disproportionate restrictions on fundamental freedoms." The four UN...
France May Invoke NATO Article 5 In Wake of Paris ISIS Attacks
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law argues that France has the legal right to invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty following the Paris ISIS attacks...Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the...
France's Constitutional Court decided Friday that a new billing allowing for broad surveillance of terrorism suspects does not violate the country's constitution. The bill was proposed before...
France authorities charge beheading suspect with murder and terrorism
France's chief prosecutor said on Tuesday that the man who allegedly beheaded his boss, pinned the severed head on a fence post and tried to blow up an industrial plant will be charged with terrorism and murder. The announcement...
France's National Assembly , the lower house of parliament, approved Bill relating to Intelligence (No. 2669) on Tuesday, which would allow authorities to increase surveillance of anyone linked to terrorism investigations without permission...
Danish police on Sunday arrested two individuals suspected to have aided a gunman in the Copenhagen attacks that left two dead over the weekend. On Saturday a 22-year-old gunman, whose name has not yet been released, opened fire [WP...
UK lawmakers urge government to take action against growing anti-Semitism
British lawmakers stated in a report on Monday that the country needs to take action against a rise in anti-Semitism throughout the country. The All-Party Parliamentary found in particular that there has been a growth...
UN rights chief marks anniversary of Auschwitz death camp liberation
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein made a statement on Monday ahead of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, 70 years after the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi...
Turkish court orders Facebook to censor pages insulting Prophet Muhammed
A Turkish court on Sunday ordered a ban on Facebook pages that contain materials insulting the Prophet Muhammed. The Golbasi Duty Magistrate Court ruled that Facebook would be blocked in Turkey if the order is not implemented. The Anadolu...
France top court approves stripping nationality of convicted Franco-Moroccan terrorist
France's top court, the Conseil Constitutionnel on Friday upheld a decision from 2013 to strip Franco-Moroccan terrorist Ahmed Sahnouni el-Yaacoubi of his French nationality following a conviction for conspiracy to commit terrorist...
