The Arkansas Supreme Court on Friday granted an emergency stay of a lower court’s order for immediate disclosure of planned lethal injection drugs and their chemical suppliers. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen ordered the state on Thursday to release this information, siding with eight prisoners who claimed they have a right to know if [...]

A Salvadoran judge on Thursday ordered former president Francisco Flores to stand trial on corruption charges. Flores is charged with embezzlement and illegal enrichment for allegedly diverting USD $15 million from Taiwanese donation to his personal and political bank accounts. The donations were intended to help victims of a 2001 earthquake in the region. Flores [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Robbie Sabel, of the Hebrew University Jerusalem, discusses the continued violence in Israel … In recent weeks Israel has been facing a wave of “individual” terrorism and the Israel Authorities are in a dilemma as to how to combat it within existing legal restraints. In the past, terrorism in the West Bank [...]

A Dominican court on Wednesday blocked a new law that would have decriminalized abortion if a pregnant woman’s life was at risk, thus reinstating a total ban on abortion within the country. The Constitutional Tribunal’s ruling, which upholds a law from 1884, cannot be appealed . The new law had been scheduled to go into [...]

The Hungarian government on Thursday filed a challenge in the European Court of Justice to the EU’s quota plan that will distribute refugees throughout the member states. Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban believes that migrants pose a threat to the nation after the attacks in Paris. Before borders were closed in October, Hungary opened its [...]

Ecuador’s National Assembly on Thursday passed a constitutional amendment lifting presidential term limits, beginning in 2021. The 16 constitutional amendments were approved in a vote of 100-8 in a legislature where sitting President Rafael Correa’s political party, Alianza Pais , has a two-thirds majority. Though Correa, who has been president since 2007 and will finish [...]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday condemned rights violations against the of children in Iraq by the Islamic State (IS). Ban stated, “I condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the continuous grave violations committed against children in armed conflict,” noting in his report that IS’s actions may considered war crimes or crimes against humanity: he [...]

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment on Thursday spoke at the Paris Climate Conference, reminding all nations that environmental issues are human rights issues. The conference includes 190 nations discussing a new universal agreement that would work to reduce greenhouse gas to combat global warming. Special Rapporteur John Knox said [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslav (ICTY) publicly announced on Tuesday confidential charges and arrest warrants for contempt of court against three people involved in the Vojislav Šešelj trial . Petar Jojić, Jovo Ostojić and Vjerica Radeta, two defense lawyers and an associate of Seselj, are suspected of having threatened, intimidated, offered bribes [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday issued an order enjoining Hawaii from counting recent election ballots pending a final ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit . The Justice Anthony Kennedy previously blocked the counting of ballots on Friday when the nonprofit organization Na’i Aupuni concluded an election that would create [...]