The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday overturned a lower court’s decision to grant habeas corpus to Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Saeed Hatim, blocking his release. In a per curiam opinion, the judges stated that the lower court’s decision was inconsistent with current laws on detainees, and that, since [...]

John Medeiros, Hamline University School of Law ’14, is an accomplished writer living in Minnesota. He writes about the Fourteenth Amendment’s birthright guarantee… I remember the day as if it were yesterday. After several weeks of studying the US Constitution in eighth grade Civics class, on the last day before our winter break, my closest [...]

The Egyptian Supreme Council of the Armed Forces announced Tuesday that it has formed a committee of judges and politicians to oversee amending the Egyptian constitution within the next 10 days. When the council assumed power on Sunday, it indicated that part of its transition plan was to form a committee to amend constitutional articles [...]

An Italian judge on Tuesday ordered billionaire media mogul and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to stand trial on charges of paying for sex with a minor and abuse of power. Berlusconi allegedly paid 7,000 euros to then 17-year-old dancer, Karima El Mahroug, for sex and later called police to secure her release while she [...]

The European Parliament on Tuesday agreed to the establishment of a common patent system despite lack of accord from Spain and Italy. EU member states have attempted to establish a uniform patent system for several years, but a unanimous vote was unobtainable due to disapproval from a few member countries. The Lisbon Treaty generally requires [...]

Iranian lawmakers called Tuesday for opposition leaders to face trial and death after Monday’s clash with security forces. Thousands of Iranians protested Monday in solidarity with Egypt’s revolt against ousted president Hosni Mubarak . Pro-government legislators demanded opposition leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi , Mehdi Karroubi and former reformist president Mohammad Khatami be held responsible for the [...]

Sudanese Guantanamo Bay detainee Noor Uthman Mohammed pleaded guilty before a military tribunal Tuesday to terrorism charges. Mohammed entered guilty pleas to one count of providing material support of terrorism and one count of conspiracy. The charges against him stem from meetings with al Qaeda and his service as a weapons instructor and manager at [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Naureen Shah, from the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School says that some Guantanamo detainees cannot go home and the US should design smarter monitoring protocols, let courts and the public test decide whether diplomatic assurances can prevent abuse, and resettle detainees who face too great a risk of torture…. The [...]

Shafiq Jamoos : “The outbreak of the peaceful revolution of the Egyptian people was shocking – in every sense of the word – to many around the world. No one expected that Egypt, the “stable” country of the “wild” Middle East, would witness such an extensive revolution against the Egyptian government and even the “untouchable” [...]

The US House of Representatives voted 275 to 144 Monday to extend surveillance provisions of the USA Patriot Act which could expire February 28. A vote on the bill to extend the provisions failed last weak under a special rule that required a two-thirds majority, but passed Monday with a simple majority. The provisions set [...]