California's Water Restriction and Its Beneficial Incentives
JURIST Guest Columnist Griffen Thorne, Student at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, discusses water use restrictions in the State of California ... On April 1, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown issued Executive Order B-29-15 ("EO"), which mandates...
Polish Soldiers Acquitted of War Crimes for Nangar Khel Incident
JURIST Guest Columnist Milena Sterio of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law discusses the recent acquittal of Polish soldiers connected to the incident at Nangar Khel ... In a recent ruling, a Warsaw military court acquitted four Polish soldiers of war crimes...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Monday announced the transfer of six detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention center to Uruguay. This move is the result of a 2009 Executive Order issued...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Thursday the transfer of five detainees from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay . Three are being transferred to the country of Georgia, while Slovakia will accepted ...
Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Sunday declared Ashraf Ghani the winner of the country's presidential election. The announcement came less than a day after the two candidates for the presidency, Ghani and rival Abdullah...
European Union urge for deeper investigation into Afghan election fraud
The European Union (EU) on Thursday called on Afghanistan to conduct a more extensive investigation into vote-rigging in their presidential election. Observers involved with the EU specifically stated that other aspects of the election should be investigated,...
Allegations of election fraud increase tension in Afghanistan
Afghanistan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah announced on Wednesday that he has suspended his campaign's cooperation with Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) and the Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC), alleging fraud by the IEC. Hundreds of Abdullah's supporters...
Turkish court sentences two surviving members of 1980 military coup to life imprisonment
A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced two former generals to life imprisonment for leading Turkey's 1980 coup d'etat that led to three years of military rule. The two retired generals, 96-year-old Kenan Evren , who held the presidential...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Texas released a report Tuesday exposing the results of a multi-year investigation into conditions at five Criminal Alien Requirement (CAR) prisons in Texas....
US security panel recommends transfer of Yemeni prisoner from Guantanamo
The Periodic Review Secretariat , a national security panel under the authority of the US Department of Defense (DoD) , on Thursday recommended the release of a Yemeni prisoner currently held at Guantanamo Bay....
