Thailand’s Supreme Court on Thursday cleared former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his then-deputy Suthep Thaugsuban of murder and attempted murder during a crackdown in 2010 on anti-government protesters. More than 90 people were killed during the crackdown. The court affirmed the two lower courts’ decision that the Department for Special Investigation, which brought the [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Louis René Beres of Purdue University, critically analyzes Trump’s “America First” foreign policy… “The existence of `system’ in the world is at once obvious to every observer of nature….Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others.” &#8212 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man The cumulative jurisprudential [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday dismissed a former West Point cadet’s lawsuit alleging that superior officers violated her rights when she was allegedly raped by a fellow cadet. Plaintiff Jane Doe alleged that her Fifth Amendment right to equal protection was violated. In a 2-1 opinion, the court concluded [...]

Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the rejection of a petition to put opposition leader Omurbek Tekebaev on the ballot for the October presidential election. Tekebaev was convicted earlier this month for accepting bribes, which his party believes is a false conviction by the ruling party. He is currently serving eight years in prison. Although [...]

Forces fighting Islamic State (IS) insurgents to regain lost territory in Syria must not sacrifice lives of civilians still trapped in the areas, UN High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein stated Thursday. Zeid had also previously urged in May that civilians needed to be protected from airstrikes in Syria. According to Coalition report figures, from [...]

Two human rights experts with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a statement Wednesday detailing their concern over websites, including many news sites, that have been shutdown or blocked by the Egyptian government. According to the report, as many as 130 sites have been blocked, “including well-known sources of [...]

A Pakistan anti-terrorism court declared former president and army general Pervez Musharraf a fugitive from the law on Thursday concerning the assassination of former prime minister, and first female leader in the Muslim world, Benazir Bhutto . The court further ordered the seizure of Musharaf’s property in Pakistan and acquitted five members of the Pakistan [...]

A judge in Brazil issued a ruling Wednesday that temporarily blocks an executive order from President Michel Temer that would have opened large sections of the Amazon forest for mining. Temer’s order would have allowed mining of gold, copper, iron and other minerals and metals in the Renca area of the Amazon, which covers more [...]

Venezuela’s National Constituent Assembly on Tuesday approved a decree rejecting the US economic sanctions and called for treason investigations into political actors for supporting the sanctions. The decree was passed unanimously on Friday. Venezuela has experienced a significant amount of political unrest since the opposition gained control of the National Assembly in December 2015. In [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said Wednesday that US President Donald Trump’s constant criticism of journalists constitutes an attack on the freedom of the press. “It’s really quite amazing when you think that freedom of the press, not only sort of a cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution but very much [...]