Search Results for: 2006-05-12

A three-member panel for the Supreme Court of Indonesia rejected a radical Islamic leader's appeal of his conviction on Thursday. Abu Bakar Bashir, religious leader of the southeast-Asian Jemaah Islamiyah militants, had requested judicial review of his...

JURIST Guest Columnist Nicholas M. Wooldridge discusses judge Aaron Persky's sentencing of convicted Stanford sex offender Brock Turner...Brock Allen Turner was convicted of three felony counts related to his digital penetration of an unconscious victim behind a dumpster at a...

Members of the US House of Representatives approved bi-partisan legislation to relieve financial pressure on Puerto Rico on Thursday. The statute, entitled the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act of 2016 (PROMESA) , creates a financial...

The Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico (GDB) announced its agreement with various state chartered credit unions in Puerto Rico whereby the maturity date of approximately $33 million of notes issued in a limited private...

The Puerto Rico legislature passed a bill on Wednesday that would allow the island territory to enter into a state of fiscal emergency and begin the process toward a debt moratorium. The bill ...

The Puerto Rico Legislature passed a bill Tuesday that would restructure the island's estimated $9 billion debt. After the Puerto Rico House of Representatives approved the bill on Monday, the Puerto Rico Senate [official websites, in...

The Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on Monday filed a petition of concern , effectively blocking the region's fifth attempt at legalizing same-sex marriage. The matter came to a vote Monday morning in the Northern...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) sent Moroccan officials a letter Monday claiming that a draft framework law before the country's parliament is in conflict with obligations to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities...

A US district court on Wednesday sentenced former North Carolina State Assembly member Stephen Laroque to 24 months in prison for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a non-profit he ran. Last January Laroque...

The Miguel Agustin Pro human rights center in Mexico on Thursday announced that there is evidence that high-ranking Mexican officers gave soldiers orders to kill criminals prior to an army mass slaying of suspected cartel members in...