The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday sentenced former Vice President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Jean-Pierre Bemba to 12 months in prison and issued a $350,000 fine for bribing witnesses during his war crimes trial in 2016. ICC Judge Bertram Schmitt reduced his sentence to zero after factoring in the time he served [...]
Six UN Special Rapporteurs called on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday to respond to a recent Egyptian court decision that condemned 75 protesters to death. The court sentenced another 47 protesters to life in prison. The protesters were charged with illegal gathering, involvement in violence, and incitement to break the law. The Special [...]
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced Monday that he would enter a bid to end judicial immunity for politicians, in an effort to end corruption. One hundred days after replacing his Conservative predecessor, Sánchez announced the initiative in an attempt to restore peoples’ confidence in politics. “The challenge we have is for citizens to believe [...]
An Egyptian court on Saturday ordered the arrest of two sons of former president Hosni Mubarak on charges of stock market manipulation, according to state news media. The Cairo criminal court indicted Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, along with seven others, for “violating stock market and central bank rules to make unlawful profits through dealing in [...]
Guatemala’s Constitutional Court on Sunday ordered that Iván Velásquez, the head of the UN’s International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) , be allowed back into the country. Velásquez had been banned from entering the country because of a “recommendation of the National Security Council, which accused the CICIG’s head of attacking Guatemala’s governability, public [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld Illinois’ zero emission credit (ZEC) subsidies for the state’s nuclear power plants on Thursday. The ZECs require power producers in the state that generate electricity using coal or gas to purchase the ZECs from the nuclear power plants at a price of $16.50 per megawatt-hour. [...]
The number of migrant children in federal detention centers has increased from 2,400 children in May 2017 to 12,800 children in September, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services that Congress released to the New York Times. According to the data, the increase in detained children is due to fewer children being released to [...]
The Federal Court of Justice (Der Bundesgerichtshof) delayed a ruling Thursday in a case concerning potential copyright infringement by streaming platform, YouTube, for uploads by third parties to receive input on the issue from the Court of Justice of the European Union . The plaintiff in the case is a music producer that has a contract with [...]
Paul Manafort, the former campaign manager for US President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy against the US and conspiracy to obstruct justice through witness tampering. Prosecutors originally brought seven charges against Manafort in the US District Court for the District of Columbia , but they reduced the charges to only two. The charges allege that Manafort acted [...]
The US Court of Appeals for Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Arizona ballot collection laws did not violate the First, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments or Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act . The election practices at issue were Arizona’s requirement for people who cast votes in-person to do so in the precinct they were assigned, [...]
