Former prime minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj was arrested in France on Wednesday on charges of war crimes filed by Serbia. Serbia claims that Haradinaj’s unit, the Black Eagles, tortured and killed Serbian civilians. Kosovo’s current president, Hashim Thaci , condemned the arrest , calling it a threat to stability in the region. Haradinaj appeared [...]

Egyptian activist and youth leader Ahmed Maher, known for his role in the 2011 revolution against former president Hosni Mubarak , was released from prison on Wednesday following his arrest in 2013. Maher, as well as fellow activists Ahmed Douma and Mohammed Adel, had been arrested for protesting against a new law that effectively bans [...]

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) , which is under the US Department of Labor, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Google over the company’s refusal to provide requested items related to their compensation policies. Google is under an Advertising and Integrated Marketing Solutions contract with the federal government. Part of that contract includes [...]

Several militias operating in Iraq have been committing war crimes using weapons manufactured in 16 different countries, including the US, Russia, China and Iran, Amnesty International (AI) said in a report Thursday. The report discusses the actions of four particular militia groups—Munathamat Badr (Badr Brigades or Badr Organization), ‘Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq (League of the Righteous), [...]

Lawyers representing a German owner of a diesel-powered Volkswagen (VW) vehicle equipped with a software that could cheat emissions tests filed the first lawsuit seeking compensation for damages on Tuesday. According to the Braunschweig district court , the German firm MyRight filed on behalf of only a single VW consumer effected by the scandal. Although [...]

The Florida Supreme Court issued a one-paragraph order Wednesday informing judges and prosecutors that the state’s death penalty procedure is unconstitutional, marking the second such order in three months. Attorney General Pam Bondi argued that, although the court ruled the statute unconstitutional in October , prosecutors should be able to apply the death penalty to [...]

An Israeli soldier who killed a wounded Palestinian in the West Bank city of Hebron in March was been found guilty of manslaughter Wednesday. The three-judge military panel in Tel Aviv ruled against Sgt Elor Azaria. Chief judge Col Maya Heller gave a lengthy verdict reading in which the court ruled that accounts of the [...]

Texas filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Food and Drug Administration to force it to decide whether an impounded shipment of a drug used for executions should be delivered to the Texas prison system, which has carried out more lethal injections than any other state. The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for [...]

The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) reported Monday that 19,266 civilian casualties occurred in 2016 , with 6,878 killed and 12,388 wounded. The UN has repeatedly condemned terrorist bombings and said that terrorist attacks in the latter months of 2016 were committed in an effort by the Islamic State (IS) to distract the world [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist John Terwilleger, of Gunster, discusses the development and regulation of “driverless” vehicles and how federal and state governments are addressing this emerging technology… Self-driving, or “autonomous” vehicles have advanced dramatically in recent years, to the point that they are now tested on public roads every day in the United States. Some consumer [...]