The US government on Monday deployed 150 US military personnel to a base in Djibouti in preparation for a possible evacuation of US citizens in response to escalating violence and political discord within South Sudan. The deployment follows a failed evacuation attempt in which four US soldiers were wounded by gunfire. Over 300 US officials [...]

A Chilean judge found eight former members of the military guilty of murder on Monday for their roles in killings perpetrated during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet . The men were members of the “Caravan of Death,” a military operation involved in the suppression of political opponents during the 1973 coup that brought Pinochet to [...]

Greenpeace International announced on Tuesday that Russian authorities dropped criminal charges against the first of 30 people accused of taking part in a Greenpeace protest in the Arctic. The 30 jailed activists were accused of hooliganism after they staged a protest on an Arctic oil rig in September. Their

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ruled on Monday that Ohio must recognize valid out-of-state marriages between same-sex couples on Ohio death certificates. The order also extends to marriages not authorized or validly performed under Ohio law, such as marriages between first cousins, marriages of certain minors and [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) , in a letter sent on Friday, called on Ukrainian authorities to end intimidation tactics against those allegedly the victim of police violence. The letter detailed concerns surrounding the treatment of two groups of protesters. The groups were protesting on November 30 at Independence Square and December 1 on Bankova Street [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Charles Tabb of the University of Illinois College of Law argues that the Detroit bankruptcy ruling produces a catch-22 between the federal and state courts which may ultimately be decided by the US Supreme Court …

On Monday, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) rejected claims by former president Pervez Musharraf and ruled the trial against Musharraf for treason will continue Tuesday, as previously scheduled. Musharraf was challenging the legitimacy of the proceedings. The first challenge was directed at the court’s jurisdiction. Musharraf claimed that since he took the actions in question [...]

A federal judge for the US District Court for the District of Utah on Monday rejected a request from lawyers for the state of Utah to block same-sex marriages from occurring in the state. Over 100 weddings have been held since Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage was overturned on Friday by U.S. District Judge Robert [...]

Two members of the feminist rock group Pussy Riot , Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, were released from prison on Monday after the Russian government’s approval of sweeping new amnesty laws . The laws were approved unanimously by the Russian Duma’s lower house of parliament and adopted last Thursday. The amnesty provided would free about [...]

The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) announced Sunday that it has begun relocating all non-critical staff from Juba, the capital city, amid the escalating violence between military factions in South Sudan. UNMISS is moving its staff from Juba to Entebbe, Uganda, as a precautionary measure to reduce pressure on its limited sources. Special Representative [...]