Search Results for: 1999-05-05

German authorities arrested alleged Red Army Faction (RAF) fugitive member Daniela Klette in Berlin on Monday after several years on the run and evading arrest for armed robbery and attempted murder charges, a German public prosecutor’s office shared Tuesday. Klette was arrested in Kreuzberg, a district of Berlin, the country’s capital and largest city. A [...]

The Associated Press (AP) released an exclusive report Thursday revealing a secret US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) spying program that targeted top Venezuelan officials, including Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, despite the program’s potential illegality under international law. According to AP, the program, internally referred to as Operation Money Badger, has been ongoing since at least [...]

The current conflict engulfing Israel and Palestine raises significant issues of international law and policy. This is part one in an anticipated two-part series that will discuss some of the relevant legal questions before the International Criminal Court (ICC; Part I) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ; Part II).  With both courts located in [...]

Stephen Rapp, an American lawyer and diplomat, has been a leading figure in international criminal law and human rights. He was appointed as the US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues in 2009, overseeing investigations and prosecutions of war criminals worldwide. Rapp’s commitment to justice and ending impunity was evident during his tenure, supporting [...]

The Federal Court of Canada delivered a decision on Thursday overturning the federal government’s order to list plastic-manufactured items (PMIs) under Schedule 1 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act 1999 (CEPA). The court’s decision may affect the government’s ban on single-use plastics, which was made possible by the order. The case was brought by the Responsible [...]

US District Court Judge Jerry Pappert limited the liability of opioid distributor Cencora (previously known as Amerisourcebergen) on Monday in the case US v. Cencora, which is a case alleging the company failed to report thousands of suspicious opioid prescriptions, fueling the opioid epidemic. The government will now only be able to prosecute the company [...]

The Senate Finance Committee reported Wednesday that US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did not repay a more than $200,000 loan for a vehicle purchase from 1999. Specifically, the committee’s memo stated the loan was $267,230 from Tony Welters, a friend of Thomas. The committee interviewed Welters and received a written note from 1999 by [...]

UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Alice Nderitu welcomed on Monday the life imprisonment sentence that the Paris Assize Court issued Philippe Hategekimana on June 28. Hategekimana was sentenced to life imprisonment for the genocide crimes that he committed during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The trial of Hategekimana [...]

Economist and foreign policy expert Jeffrey Sachs, a best selling author and director of Columbia University’s Center for Sustainable Development, has long argued that Russia’s hostility toward Ukraine was provoked by the U.S. vis-à-vis pushes for NATO expansion, military interventions, and other forms of meddling. In an interview with JURIST Assistant Editor Pitasanna Shanmugathas, Sachs [...]

Following global practice — including that of the U.S. military justice system — the Pakistan Army Act builds on maintaining good order and discipline among service members, as no military can effectively function without strict discipline. The court-martial, that is, trial by military officers of breaches of service-connected discipline, including crimes, sits at the heart [...]