Senegalese prosecutors have charged Karim Wade, the son of Senegal’s former president Abdoulaye Wade , with corruption for allegedly embezzling USD $1.4 billion during his father’s years in office. The corruption claim centers on Wade’s acquisition of real estate and foreign companies, including Dubai Port World , during his father’s 12-year term as president. Wade, [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday expressed concern over reports of human rights violations in the Central African Republic (CAR) . Since the Seleka coalition forces launched their offensive in December, there have been numerous reports of human rights violations, including targeted killings, arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture, rape, disappearances, kidnappings [...]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that the international community must do more to prevent atrocities, during a ceremony Monday commemorating the nineteenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. Ban urged member states to precipitate the arrest and prosecution of those responsible for the Rwanda genocide . The Secretary-General commended Rwanda for its progress towards a [...]

A Pakistani judge on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for former president Pervez Musharraf on charges of detaining judges during his time in office. With the arrest warrant, Judge Shaukat Siddiqui also canceled the bail that was granted to Musharraf last Friday. Despite the arrest order, Musharraf escaped the court premises to his home in [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Qiwei Chen, an LL.M. candidate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2013, discusses China’s new leaders election and the current disputes on hukou, the household registration system…

EU Commissioner of Justice Viviane Reding spoke out on Wednesday against Hungary’s failure to reinstate judges and prosecutors who had been forced into early retirement. Last November the European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck down a Hungarian law that lowered the age of retirement for judges and prosecutors. In recent months, Hungary has taken steps [...]

The Iraqi Justice Ministry executed 21 individuals on Tuesday who were convicted of terrorism. The men were convicted under Article 4,of Iraq’s anti-terrorism law, which includes the use of improvised explosive devices, assassinations of doctors and kidnapping women, and sentenced to death. Iraq has been widely criticized for the use of the death penalty, but [...]

The UN Independent Expert on human rights in Somalia on Wednesday urged the Somali government to continue efforts to strengthen the country’s justice system in the wake of Sunday’s attacks on the Supreme Court complex . The attacks by al Shabaab rebels killed more than 30 people, including judges, lawyers and court personnel. UN expert [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday considered California’s ban on psychotherapy practices intended to convert gay teenagers into straight teenagers. The three-judge panel heard arguments on whether the First Amendment right to free speech extends to the controversial psychotherapy practice, or whether the legislature had the authority to pass such [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases . In Salinas v. Texas the court considered the boundaries of the Fifth Amendment right to remain silent prior to arrest. Genovevo Salinas was suspected of being involved in a murder. He consented to a search of his home, where police found a shotgun, [...]