Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that the US Congress would damage the American relationship with Turkey if it supports a resolution recognizing the WWI-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide. Although the Bush administration has spoken out against such a bill, the Democratic-led Congress may decide to pass a resolution [...]
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Saturday in a new report on Saudi Arabia that respect for human rights in the Kingdom seemed to be improving but violations and abuses persisted. The report detailed the existence of unfair trial, the detention of children and the habitual oppression of women and foreign laborers within the Middle Eastern [...]
An appeal was filed Saturday in the case of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor convicted and sentenced to death by a Libyan court for knowingly infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus. Othman Bizanti, lawyer for the accused Bulgarian nurses, lodged the appeal days after counsel for the Palestinian [...]
US Marine Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington was sentenced to eight years in military prison Saturday for his role in the death of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdania in April 2006. The original sentence of 14 years confinement was reduced to eight according to a pre-trial agreement; Pennington was also reduced in rank [...]
Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates of the ruling Socialist party said Saturday that the Portuguese Parliament could pass legislation to loosen its strict abortion law by the end of March. Low voter turnout undermined last week's referendum on easing the abortion law, but the government has nonetheless vowed to seek approval of the changes in [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists urged the Philippines government Friday to drop sedition charges against Daily Tribune publisher Ninez Cacho-Olivarez and columnists Ramon Seneres and Herman Tiu-Laurel. The journalists were charged with incitement to sedition earlier this week for having "continuously maligned and undermined the present administration." The journalists wrote articles criticizing the administration of [...]
Jones v. Barlow, Utah Supreme Court, February 16, 2007 . Read the full text of the ruling . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
A Pakistani judge, five lawyers, court officials and relatives of prisoners on trial were among 15 people killed when a suicide bomber attacked a district court while it was in session in Quetta, Pakistan on Saturday. Over 24 were wounded and authorities have not yet determined who was responsible for the attack. On Thursday, Pakistani [...]
New Jersey Attorney General Stuart Rabner issued an opinion Friday concluding that same-sex marriages and civil unions from out-of-state jurisdictions will be afforded "all of the rights and benefits of marriage" under New Jersey's civil unions law that will come into effect on Monday, February 19. Same-sex civil unions recognized by Vermont and Connecticut, as [...]
US District Judge Marcia Cooke ruled Friday that US military lawyer, prison doctors and staff must testify at a hearing next week concerning the treatment of Jose Padilla while under military custody. Cooke determined that because the US Bureau of Prisons evaluation that concluded Padilla was fit to stand trial partially relied on a psychiatrist's [...]
