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17 Jun 2008, 3:02 am
[JURIST] UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday spoke in favor of a controversial anti-terror bill [materials; BBC Q/A] that would allow authorities to detain terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days [JURIST news archive] in a speech [text] he presented to the Institute for Public Policy Research [group website]. [read post]
5 May 2009, 7:18 am
Mukoko is the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) [advocacy website], and Manyere is a former aid to Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 2:46 am
[JURIST] Former UK attorney general Peter Goldsmith [BBC profile] warned former prime minister Tony Blair [official profile; JURIST news archive] that the planned invasion of Iraq could be illegal, according to a letter leaked to the Iraq Inquiry [official website; BBC backgrounder], confirmed [Daily Mail report] by the Daily Mail on Sunday. [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 12:14 pm
The case arose after Vancouver lawyer Cameron Ward was mistakenly arrested for making threats against then-prime minister Jean Chretien [CBC profile]. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 11:14 am
Among those released were Hitay Kywe and U Gambira, leaders of a 2007 revolt, Min Ko Naing, student leader of a 1988 protest, and former prime minister Khin Nyunt. [read post]
15 Apr 2010, 10:34 am
The Anglophilic among Blawgconomics' readers are perhaps familiar with C-Span's live airings of Prime Minister's Questions every Wednesday. [read post]
22 Feb 2014, 8:12 am
[JURIST] Ukraine opposition icon and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko [official website; JURIST news archive] was released from prison Saturday when the Supreme Council of Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada [official website], voted to decriminalize the charges that had been brought against her. [read post]
6 Nov 2004, 3:19 am
Results have not been announced in the tight race between Yushchenko and his opponent, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, but the result is seen as crucial to many who look to ease the grip of [read post]
24 Nov 2004, 2:53 pm
[JURIST] Updating a continuing story previously reported on JURIST's Paper Chase, Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko has called for an "all-Ukraine national strike" after election officials declared Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych the winner of Sunday's presidential election. [read post]
6 Jan 2007, 3:33 am
[JURIST] Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saturday his government might have to review relations with countries that criticized Saddam Hussein's execution [JURIST report], calling last Friday's hanging a domestic affair. [read post]
22 Apr 2007, 3:35 pm
[JURIST] A Bangladeshi court issued a warrant Sunday for the arrest of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed [Wikipedia profile] who is currently exiled in London. [read post]
31 May 2007, 9:34 am
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko [official website; JURIST news archive] and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich [BBC profile] finally reached an agreement [JURIST [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 10:57 am
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Pakistan [official website] ruled Thursday that former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif [BBC profile] can return to the country, effectively ending the 10-year exile imposed after Sharif was deposed in a military coup led by current Pakistani President Gen. [read post]
24 Sep 2007, 6:36 pm
[JURIST] The Israeli Attorney General announced Monday that he was opening an investigation into a real estate purchase made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert [official website]. [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 3:14 am
[JURIST] Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] signed a "reconciliation ordinance" Friday, granting amnesty to former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto [BBC profile] on corruption charges. [read post]
22 Jan 2008, 9:00 am
[JURIST] The Russian Prosecutor General's office [official website, in Russian] said Tuesday it has launched a forgery investigation targeting former Russian prime minister and now opposition leader Mikhail Kasyanov [BBC profile]. [read post]
27 Jun 2008, 11:52 am
[JURIST] The Canadian Federal Court [official website] ruled in two separate opinions Thursday that media comments by Quebec Justice John Gomery [CBC profile], who led the inquiry into the sponsorship scandal [CBC backgrounder] involving the Liberal Party [party website] and the administration of former prime minister Jean Chrétien [official profile], indicated bias against Chrétien [opinion, PDF [read post]
30 Sep 2008, 5:18 pm
[JURIST] Retired Quebec Justice John Gomery [CBC profile], the head of the now-concluded judicial inquiry [official website] into the federal sponsorship scandal [CBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive], told the Canadian Club of Montreal Monday that he played no role in Friday's move by the Canadian Conservative party government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper [official profile] to appeal two [read post]
11 Mar 2009, 9:40 am
[JURIST] Pakistan [JURIST news archive] government forces conducted raids and arrested opposition members, including members of the country's lawyers' movement [NYT backgrounder; JURIST news archive], prior to a protest rally led Wednesday by former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) [party website] leader Nawaz Sharif [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 9:20 am
[JURIST] The Italian Senate [official website, in Italian] on Wednesday gave final approval to a bill [materials, in Italian] that would allow cabinet ministers, including Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], to postpone criminal proceedings against them on the grounds that they would interfere with official duties. [read post]
