Magistrate James Eremye Mawanda of the Nakawa Chief Magistrate Court on Wednesday released a jailed academic on bail after she had been arrested for criticizing Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni . Stella Nyanzi, who teaches at a local college in Kampala, was arrested after criticizing the Ugandan leader over failing to deliver on a promise to [...]
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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva appeared in Court on Wednesday and gave a four-hour deposition on the graft charges he faces. In the deposition, da Silva< a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption-lula-idUSKBN186239">criticized the charges as “illegitimate” and a “farce,” claiming that the Brazilian media wants to get him “dead or alive”. Three years ago, da Silva [...]
A Canadian Federal Court ruled on Wednesday that certain provisions of the Citizen Act violate principles of fundamental justice under Canada’s Bill of Rights . Judge Jocelyne Gagne , who ruled over eight cases involving the law, struck down provisions that prevented people from challenging their loss of Canadian status over alleged lies on residency [...]
The US Senate on Tuesday rejected a measure that would rollback methane gas regulations. HJ Res 36 was a joint measure which sought to provide Congressional disapproval of the final rule of the Bureau of Land Management relating to “Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation” . The rule controlled for the amount [...]
The International Court of Justice on Wenesday scheduled a public hearing to resolve a dispute over an Indian man accused of spying after receiving notice from Indian officials that a Pakistani military court has sentenced the man to death . Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, an Indian national and former member of the Indian Navy, has been [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Greg Barns, Lecturer in Jurisprudence RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) and Anna Talbot, Legal and Policy Adviser Australian Lawyers Alliance discuss the human rights of unwell asylum seekers at the refugee facility on Manus Island… On April 30th, the National Court of Papua New Guinea granted an urgent request for an injunction to [...]
Chinese human rights lawyers Xie Yang and Li Heping were released from prison Tuesday after being detained for nearly two years on charges of attempting to subvert the country’s ruling Communist Party. The two activists were originally rounded up in July of 2015, along with hundreds of other activists and lawyers, in the so-called “7-09 [...]
The Delaware House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday that would reinstate the death penalty. The House voted a 24-16 on House Bill 125, designated the Extreme Crimes Protection Act . The bill requires juries to unanimously agree that aggravating circumstances in a murder warrant a death sentence. Sponsors of the bill hope that [...]
US President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday. Trump said he acted under direction from both the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. A letter written to former FBI Director states that his leadership was ineffective and that a new leader is needed to restore public trust and [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Mais Haddad, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, discusses laws in Arab countries that protect rapists and further oppress rape victims…. In the Arab world, women are under systematic discrimination socially, politically and economically. This discrimination is mirrored, deepened and embodied within the Arab countries’ legal systems. A quick study of these [...]
