The Ethiopian government declared a national state of emergency on Sunday. This is the first time that a state of emergency has been declared in the country in 25 years, since the ruling party came into power. Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced the state of emergency to local news services and explained that the declaration [...]
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The Federal Supreme Court of Iraq ruled Monday against Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s proposal to eliminate the mainly ceremonial roles of Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister. The court reasoned that these roles are constitutionally required and their elimination can only be passed through an absolute majority in parliament and then ratified by a national [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Fahira Brodlija of University of Pittsburgh School of Law, LLM Class of 2017, discusses the recent referendum and court decisions regarding Republic Srpska… The specific constitutional framework of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) and the governmental structure which arises out of it has provided for a constant need for a balancing act in [...]
A group of UN human rights experts spoke Friday on the subject of the death penalty and terrorism, calling the death penalty ineffective , and often times illegal, in deterring to terrorism. Speaking ahead of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, the rights experts stated it has taken notice of governments relying upon the [...]
David Kaye, the top UN expert on free expression, stated Friday that reports that Yahoo allowed the US government to search hundreds of millions of customers’ e-mails “raise serious human rights concerns.” According to recent reports , Yahoo is alleged to have created software to scan all incoming e-mail for specific criteria provided by either [...]
Chinese officials announced Sunday that 70-year-old former legislator Bai Enpei has been sentenced to death for his part in taking bribes. The announcement comes as the government has continued its anti-graft campaign speared by President Xi Jingping to root out any and all corrupt practices in the region. The court found that the former legislator [...]
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in a press briefing on Friday welcomed the presentation of a draft bill on constitutional justice reforms in the Guatemala legislature. Stating that this “represents an historic opportunity to consolidate the remarkable progress the country has achieved in the fight against impunity and corruption [...]
Uruguay’s Foreign Minister, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, on Friday urged a former Guantanamo prisoner, Jihad Diyab, to call off his hunger strike, stating that Uruguay is attempting to transfer him to another country. Diyab is a Syrian national who was held for 12 years in Guantanamo without being formally charged and was released in 2014 along [...]
US District Judge Amos L. Mazzant III on Friday conditionally dismissed the Securities and Exchange Commission‘s (SEC) suit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton . The SEC alleged that Paxton misled investors in Servergy, Inc. , a business purporting to make a new computer network server. Paxton recruited friends and business professionals to invest a [...]
