Search Results for: surnames

The National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) issued a public statement Friday demanding the immediate release of prominent journalist Mohamed Boughalleb, who was detained by the police for 48 hours on suspicion of insulting a public official. The spokesperson for the public prosecutor’s office told TAP that Boughalleb’s detention stems from a complaint filed by [...]

READ MORE

To date, America’s greatest contribution to the world has been its Constitution. The importance of this document far surpasses such other cultural achievements as the Moon landing, the telephone, GPS, rubber vulcanization, and Henry Ford’s mass production lines. It is more important, even, than Gone With the Wind, and the hamburger — even though this [...]

READ MORE

The Greek Parliament voted on Thursday to legalize same-sex civil marriage. The legislation passed with a majority of 176 votes in favor out of 300 members of the Hellenic Parliament. Key provisions of the approved legislation include the recognition of same-sex marriages, amending the civil code to allow marriage regardless of gender, establishing equal surname [...]

READ MORE

Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview with a state-run television channel on Wednesday that the government would shortly submit legislation allowing same-sex civil marriages, despite reservations from the Orthodox Church and some lawmakers.  Mitsotakis vowed to eliminate any discrimination based on sexual orientation in marriages. He added that “marriage equality has already [...]

READ MORE

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. All of them are from CIED (Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho, a student research center in UNSAAC’s faculty of law dedicated to spreading [...]

READ MORE

A German court affirmed the conviction of ISIS member “Jennifer W.” for aiding and abetting in committing crimes against humanity when she abused a five-year-old girl from the Yazidi religious minority, according to a press release from human rights organization Yazda. In addition to affirming her conviction, the Higher Regional Court of Munich also increased [...]

READ MORE

India’s lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha, restored the membership of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday after India’s Supreme Court stayed his conviction in a 2019 defamation case. Gandhi is a key figure in the Indian National Congress (INC), India’s main opposition political party. After the news about parliament’s decision to restore him, [...]

READ MORE

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Samar Veer, a third-year law student at National Law University, Delhi.   On Friday, in a major jolt to the Indian political landscape, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi of the Indian National Congress (INC) was disqualified from being a [...]

READ MORE

India’s Lok Sabha (House of People) Secretariat Friday issued a notification of disqualification of Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi after he was convicted in a defamation case. The Lok Sabha Secretariat stated that Gandhi, who represented Kerala’s Wayanad Parliamentary Constituency, was disqualified under Article 102 (Disqualifications for membership) of the Constitution of India read with Section [...]

READ MORE