Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour announced in a televised speech on Sunday that Egypt will hold presidential elections before conducting parliamentary elections. The parliamentary elections were supposed to happen first under the timetable agreed to after Egypt’s army deposed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in July. Critics have argued for a change in the ‘roadmap’ to [...]

An anti-government protest leader was killed in Bangkok on Sunday. Suthin Thararin, a protest leader for the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) , was shot to death in front of the Sri Eiam Temple in Bangkok while demonstrators blocked a voting station, according to Police Col. Thawatkiat Jindakuansanong. On Friday, a Thai court ruled that [...]

The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court sentenced legal scholar and activist Xu Zhiyong on Sunday to four years in prison on the charge of ‘gathering a crowd to disturb public order.’ Xu is the founder of the New Citizens’ Movement , a grass-roots organization which seeks to draw attention to matters of public discontent, [...]

Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych promised concessions on Friday in response to the growing unrest in the country. The concessions would include a change in Yanukovych’s cabinet members, amnesty for many imprisoned protesters who have not been accused of serious crimes, and reform of the country’s anti-protest legislation. At a meeting with religious leaders Yanukovych called [...]

The Supreme Court of Croatia on Friday upheld a lower court’s ruling that former Yugoslav secret service official Josip Perkovic could be extradited to Germany where he has been implicated in the 1983 murder of a Yugoslav dissident. Perkovic, who helped create Croatia’s Security and Intelligence Agency in the 1990s, has repeatedly denied involvement in [...]

On Wednesday, Texas executed a Mexican national who was convicted of murdering a police officer in 1994. Controversy grew after the arrest because Edgar Arias Tamayo was not notified of his rights under Vienna Convention on Consular Relations to notify Mexican diplomats of the arrest. Because of this, Tamayo’s legal team argued that Tamayo was [...]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday filed a lawsuit alleging fraud against the background check firm, United States Investigations Services (USIS) . USIS was contracted by the DOJ to perform background checks on individuals at varying levels. The DOJ alleges the USIS faked more than 665,000 background checks they were contracted to perform between [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Alexis Campos, Stetson University College of Law Class of 2015, delves into the issues of duty, causation and proximate cause in regards to the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centers and how this liability case was approached…

Prosecutors investigating allegations of a CIA secret prison in a Polish forest announced on Friday that they will be looking further into recent developments surrounding the so-called “black site.” According to the Washington Post, two senior CIA officials were seen delivering cardboard boxes containing $15 million in cash to the US Embassy in Warsaw in [...]

The appeals chamber for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday upheld the criminal convictions of four Serbian senior officials stemming from the Bosnian Civil War , while reducing the sentences for three of them. Former Serbian prime minister Nikola Sainovic’s sentence was reduced from 22 to 18 years imprisonment, while [...]