A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration must release or conduct bond hearings for 1,444 detained Iraqi immigrants. In a followup to his July...
The Parliament of Uganda on Tuesday announced that President Yoweri Museveni has assented to a controversial bill removing the presidential age limit of 75 years. Section 102 of the Ugandan Constitution...
Israel's legislature, the Knesset, passed a constitutional amendment Tuesday regarding status of land in the city of Jerusalem, now requiring a large majority vote of the Knesset to cede any land in Jerusalem to a foreign party....
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: A group of UN human rights experts denounced on Thursday the grant of pardon to former Peru President Alberto Fujimori, calling it a "'slap in the face' to victims...
A group of UN human rights experts denounced on Thursday the grant of pardon to former Peru President Alberto Fujimori, calling it a "'slap in the face' to victims of human rights abuses." According to the experts The...
The US and Germany embassies released a statement on Wednesday urging China to release human rights activist Wu Gan, known as the "Super Vulgar Butcher," who was sentenced to imprisonment for eight years for undermining governmental authority. According to...
Former Peru President Alberto Fujimori was pardoned by President Pedro Pablo Kuzynski on Sunday after serving almost half of a 25-year prison sentence for human rights abuses and corruption committed during his authoritarian regime in the 1990s. Fijumori,...
US District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Saturday ruled that the US must allow the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLUF) access to an American citizen being held in US military custody in Iraq. On...
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The Ugandan parliament voted on Wednesday to eliminate the presidential age limit of 75 years. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday...
The Ugandan parliament voted on Wednesday to eliminate the presidential age limit of 75 years. The controversial "Age Limit Bill" also extends the terms of office for the president and the parliament from five years to seven years....