Search Results for: 2006-04-25

JURIST Columnist Volha Samasiuk holds an LL.M. from the University of Arkansas School of Law and she was formerly a legal consultant for the Belarus Food Safety Improvement Project. In the first entry of a two-part series, Samasiuk discusses the...

The US Department of State (DOS) on Friday released the 2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices . The reports outline the prevailing trends that shaped human rights last year. These include uprisings across the Middle East...

JURIST Columnist Charles C. Jalloh of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law examines the role of Alternate Judge El Hadji Malick Sow in Charles Taylor's trial and recent conviction and discusses the implications of Sow's decision to publicly disagree...

The Mexican Chamber of Deputies on Monday approved a bill that will recognize, protect and provide aid to victims of crimes stemming from the gang-related drug wars that have engulfed the country for nearly the...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday rejected the government's broad reading of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) . This decision directly contradicts the rulings of three other appeals...

JURIST Guest Columnist Iryna Dasevich is a LL.M. Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and has interned in the police department and the district court in Turnopil, Ukraine. In the first entry of a 14-part series from...

Majid Khan , a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who is linked with al Qaeda, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to five terror charges including conspiracy, attempted murder and murder. Per his plea bargain, Khan must testify...

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking the release of videotapes of the interrogation of an inmate held at the Guantanamo Bay prison . The CCR filed the...

An Italian high court Thursday rejected an application by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to prevent testimony being heard at his corruption trial. Berlusconi had applied for but was denied an interim injunction [Guardian...

A Belarus court convicted human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the president of Viasana and vice-president of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) , of tax evasion on Thursday, sentencing him to a four-and-a-half-year prison term....