JURIST Guest Columnist Jill Levenson of Lynn University criticizes the reliance of the Supreme Court and others on inaccurate sex offender data…

Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday said that US authorities’ efforts to thwart Edward Snowden’s attempts to seek asylum amount to serious human rights violations. According to Wikileaks , a whistleblower website, Snowden submitted asylum applications to a host of countries, including Ecuador, China and Cuba. AI Director of Law and Policy Michael Bocheneck said it [...]

Ireland’s Parliament voted 138-24 on Tuesday to pass the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill , which would more liberally legalize abortions in cases of medical emergencies. Ireland currently has abortion laws which are heavily influenced by the Catholic Church, to which two-thirds of the country’s population belongs, and impose strict restraints on situations in [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday, granted early release to Momcilo Krajisnik , the former head of the Bosnian Serb parliament who was convicted in 2006 of the persecution, deportation and forcible transfer of civilians from their homes during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war. The decision, written by Judge Theodor Meron , [...]

The Bolivian ambassador to the UN, Sacha Llorenti, claimed on Wednesday that it was an act of aggression for European countries to deny the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales , the right to fly through their airspace. Llorenti alleged that international law had been violated by those countries, and demanded that there be consequences for [...]

The Egyptian Court of Cassation on Tuesday ordered President Mohammed Morsi to reinstate Abdel Meguid Mahmoud to his post as prosecutor-general (PG). Morsi appointed Talaat Abdallah as PG in November, pursuant to a controversial constitutional declaration which dismissed and replaced the Mubarak-era PG Mahmoud and immunized Morsi’s own decisions from judicial appeal. The Cairo Court [...]

A United Arab Emirates (UAE) court on Tuesday gave sentences of up to 15 years in prison to 69 out of 94 people on trial for planning an Islamist coup. The group of defendants includes unnamed doctors, academics, lawyers and other professionals arrested over the past year for allegedly forming a secret network with ties [...]

Ohio Governor John Kasich signed new abortion restrictions into law Sunday night as part of the state’s budget . The provisions will require ultrasounds for anyone seeking an abortion, make it more difficult for family planning services to obtain funding, and limit the ability of those providing abortions to make agreements with local hospitals. Planned [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Eric Goldstein of Human Rights Watch discusses the recent developments and ongoing pitfalls of the Moroccan judicial system

A Bahraini high criminal court on Monday acquitted two police officers on trial for the torture of six Shiite doctors during the uprising against the Sunni regime in 2011. The Grand Criminal Court’s Third Chamber acquitted the two officers of all charges due to the lack of adequate evidence that the officers engaged in the [...]