Search Results for: 2005-04-01

Amnesty International (AI) released a report Tuesday on the many juvenile offenders on death row in Iran. The report states that 73 executions of juvenile offenders took place between 2005 and 2015 and that...

More than a dozen death row inmates in Zimbabwe on Sunday submitted a plea to the nation's constitutional court through a local NGO, arguing that their death sentences are unconstitutional. The inmates have spent between four and 20 years...

California Governor Jerry Brown on Monday signed legislation that provides terminally ill patients the right to die. Brown stated, "he crux of the matter is whether the State of California should continue to make...

Privacy International reported Monday that Colombian intelligence agencies have been developing surveillance tools to collect large amounts of data without a warrant. According to the advocacy group, a newly changed intelligence law has made it possible...

The Indian Supreme Court on Monday stayed an order from the Rajasthan High Court that would have made the practice of Santhara , or voluntarily fasting to death practiced by the Jains [BBC...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Friday upheld a French court's decision allowing Vincent Lambert the right to die, stating it did not violate article 2 of European Convention on Human...

The California Senate on Thursday voted 23-14 to approve a controversial right to die bill . The bill would protect doctors who aide individuals with terminal conditions in dying. The bill's impact is limited to...

Eight convicted drug smugglers were executed in Indonesia early Wednesday despite international criticism and pleas for clemency. Among those executed by firing squad were Australian nationals Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, part of the so-called "Bali Nine,"...

JURIST Guest Columnists Stefaan Smis, Derek Inman and Pacifique Muhindo of Vrije Universiteit Brussel, discuss the violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in Democratic Republic of Congo and urge for the change in national priorities in order to...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that the UK government's extradition of terror suspect Haroon Aswat to the US in October was lawful. Aswat was arrested in the UK at the request...