The Yemeni parliament on Saturday approved a bill granting immunity to President Ali Abdullah Saleh in exchange for him stepping down. In the same bill, parliament recommended current Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi become the new president. The bill would protect Saleh against prosecution for politically motivated acts but not terrorism. It also gives partial [...]

The UN expressed concern on Friday over Cambodia’s decision to not appoint the reserve judge to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) over “ethical concerns.” The UN stated that the ethical concerns were unfounded. The previous judge, Judge Siegfried Blunk, resigned in October over statements made by the Cambodian foreign minister allegedly [...]

Mali signed an agreement Friday with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to become the first African country to agree to enforce the ICC’s sentences of imprisonment. Article 103 of the Rome Statute , which governs the ICC, states that “ sentence of imprisonment shall be served in a State designated by the Court from a [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Jeremy Lipschultz of the University of Nebraska at Omaha says that in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., it seems likely that the Supreme Court will not force the Federal Communications Commission to alter its vague and subjective indecency policy and will not overturn the outdated precedent established in FCC v. Pacifica… [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Josh Douglas of the University of Kentucky College of Law says that the Supreme Court’s opinion in Citizens United v. FEC has created a doctrine that prevents states from justifying campaign finance laws on anticorruption grounds and forces them to justify them on the grounds of transparency concerns alone, which heavily limits [...]

US oil company Chevron Corp announced Friday that it has filed an appeal with the National Court of Justice in Ecuador asking it to reconsider the decision rendered by an Ecuadorian judge that would require Chevron to pay $18 billion in damages from the pollution it has caused to the Amazon jungle. Chevron appealed on [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled Friday that a policy in the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, that bans registered sex offenders from entering the city’s public libraries is unconstitutional. The court reasoned that the policy violated the fundamental right to receive information under the First Amendment of the Constitution and [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on North Korean Human Rights Marzuki Darusman called Friday on the new leadership of North Korea (DPRK) to improve human rights concerns in their country. The statement comes as North Korea begins a new era of leadership under Kim Jong-un , the son of and successor to the recently deceased leader [...]

Yemeni officials on Thursday amended a law that would have given complete immunity to

Haitian Judge Ezekiel Vaval convicted eight police officers on Thursday for their participation in the shooting and killing of at least 10 prisoners after the January 2010 earthquake . The judge also found that six other police officers were innocent. One of the convicted officers fled the country before the trial and was convicted in [...]