International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda confirmed Thursday that her office will not investigate a 2010 Israeli attack against a Gaza bound Turkish flotilla. After a presentation of new facts and information, Bensouda concluded...
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The Higher Regional Court in Celle, Germany, on Wednesday ruled that Oskar Groening, a former Auschwitz guard known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz," is not too elderly to serve a four-year prison sentence. The now 96-year-old...
Recently, professors at Carnegie Mellon University have proposed a method to reform redistricting and avoid partisan gerrymandering. The plan proposed by the CMU professors would seek to take advantage of each party’s self-interest to create fairer and...
The US House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would allow gun owners with state-issued concealed carry permits to carry their guns into other states that also allow concealed carrying. The bill would amend...
A group of UN human rights experts issued an urgent call for action Thursday in order to realize the right to development. The Declaration on the Right to Development was originally adopted on December 4, 1986. The document...
An Argentine judicial panel on Wednesday sentenced 29 former officials to life in prison, and 19 to between 8-25 years for murder and torture during the junta's 1976-1983 "Dirty War" [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news...
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) extradited 75-year-old Inocente Orlando Montano, a former El Salvador colonel, to Spain to face charges for his alleged involvement in the 1989 murder of eight individuals that included...
Saudi Arabian authorities released Prince Miteb bin Abdullah from custody on Tuesday after reaching an estimated $1 billion settlement agreement concerning corruption allegations, according to a Saudi official . Miteb, "along with 200 other royals, ministers and business tycoons,"...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in Carpenter v. United States , a case concerning law enforcement officers' authority to collect an individual's cell phone records to track his movements over an extended period of...
Bolivia's Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal (TCP) on Wednesday ruled that President Evo Morales may seek a fourth consecutive term as the country's president in the 2019 election. This decision comes almost two years after Morales campaigned...
