Pakistan court issues arrest warrant for former president Musharraf
The Balochistan High Court issued an arrest warrant Monday for former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf . Musharraf is accused of involvement with the murder of former Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti [Al Jazeera...
JURIST Guest Columnist Ciara Torres-Spelliscy of Stetson University College of Law discusses how Kansas, Georgia and Alabama pushed forward with efforts to require additional proof of citizenship by new registrants, despite the Supreme Court decision on invalidating state's requirements on...
Texas court grants stay of execution for man who did not commit murder
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution on Friday for murder accomplice Jeffrey Lee Wood. Wood and Daniel Reneau attempted to rob a gas station in 1996. Wood waited in...
Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday urged EU officials to adhere to a 2013 suspension on arms transfers with Egypt in order to prevent human rights violations. According to AI, the suspension was put in place "after...
JURIST Guest Columnist Joyce Lee Malcolm of the George Mason School of Law discusses judicial precedent for Second Amendment rights...The decision of Connecticut judge Barbara Bellis to ignore federal law by permitting gun manufacturers to be sued for criminal use...
Second Circuit upholds convictions of Madoff firm former employees
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday upheld the convictions of five former employees of Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities firm who were convicted of various fraud charges in 2014. The...
Chicago task force: police influenced by institutional racism
A Chicago task force assigned by Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday issued a report finding that racism has caused systematic failures within the city's police department. The report includes statistics illustrating how African Americans are...
Pakistani authorities opened a probe on Thursday into reports that a charity run by a militant group has established an Islamic court. The group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has reportedly established a court separate from the judiciary in Lahore. Legal...
Indiana ACLU reaches settlement with DOC over treatment of mentally ill prisoners
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana (ACLU) and the Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services Commission (IPAS) reached a settlement agreement on Wednesday with the Department of Corrections over the treatment of...
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has determined that the imprisonment of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was political and has urged his immediate release, according to a copy of their report released Monday...
