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6 Jul 2020, 12:16 pm
Chinese authorities on Monday detained a law professor who published essays criticising President Xi Jinping over the coronavirus pandemic and his efforts to consolidate power, according to friends of the man. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 12:42 am
[JURIST] French authorities questioned a second "rogue trader" Friday in their investigation into the massive financial losses of French Bank Societe Generale [bank website], Le Monde reported Friday. [read post]
9 Oct 2021, 8:09 am
“We don’t agree with her characterization of the many issues she testified about,” Pietsch said in a statement. [read post]
5 Apr 2006, 8:41 am
[JURIST] French union leaders said Wednesday that there is only one "plausible response likely to end the conflict" over the controversial First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) [text, in French] and gave French President Jacques Chirac [official profile] until April 15 to withdraw the law, which allows workers under 26 years old to be fired without cause during the first two [read post]
29 Jan 2024, 10:00 pm
A draft law, On ratification of the Specific Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Government of the French Republic on Implementation of Cooperation in Combating Global Warming, was recently developed in Kazakhstan, representing a unique international treaty that will provide for significant preferences, derogations, and exemptions from the Kazakhstan legal regime for major projects in the field of renewable energy, including guarantees of stability of legislation. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 12:31 pm
[JURIST] A French court began proceedings in absentia Wednesday against 14 former Chilean officials over the disappearance of four French citizens during the regime of Augusto Pinochet [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
18 Feb 2009, 4:06 am
[JURIST] The French National Assembly [official website, in French] approved a bill [text, in French] Tuesday to provide government subsidies to individuals who temporarily leave work to care for dying relatives. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 5:29 am
[JURIST] French President Nicholas Sarkozy [official website, in French] said Wednesday that the government will introduce legislation to ban traditional Muslim face veils [transcript, in French; video, in French] in public places. [read post]
26 Aug 2012, 11:49 am
[JURIST] French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Saturday that he will introduce a bill in October to the National Assembly and Senate [official websites, in French] that would allow same-sex couples to get married and adopt children. [read post]
12 Apr 2020, 9:23 am
You can see a list of past winners here, including Jerry Fodor, Fred Dretske, Stephen Stich, Gilbert Harman, Ruth Millikan, Ned Block, and Tyler Burge, among many others. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 7:56 am
French judge Catherine Marchi-Uhel was appointed [press release] as Head of the International Impartial and Independent Mechanism on Monday to collect evidence concerning persons involved in Syrian war crimes over the last six years. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 4:47 am
[JURIST] The Paris Criminal Court on Monday asked the highest court of appeal, the Court of Cassation [official website, in French], to determine the constitutionality of police custody under article 63-4 [text] of the code of criminal procedure. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 7:43 am
[JURIST] The widow and daughter of Yasser Arafat [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday asked a French court to investigate what they believe to be the murder of the former Palestinian leader. [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 7:38 am
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17 Oct 2011, 9:01 am
[JURIST] The Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris [official website, in French] on Friday ordered [judgment in PDF, in French] French Internet service providers to block access to Copwatch Nord Paris I-D-F, a website designed to allow civilians to post videos of alleged police misconduct. [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 5:30 am
(credit: Richard Ying et Tangui Morlier) French parliamentarians have adopted an amendment to a penal reform bill that would punish companies like Apple that refuse to provide decrypted versions of messages their products have encrypted. [read post]
16 Oct 2009, 8:22 am
[JURIST] A French court on Thursday ruled that a woman cannot recover semen samples donated by her husband prior to his death. [read post]
5 Oct 2017, 5:19 am
The lower house of the French parliament on Tuesday voted 415-127 to approve an anti-terrorism bill [materials, in French] that would increase police surveillance powers and enable authorities to close places of worship easier that are suspected of being a threat to national security. [read post]
1 Apr 2020, 2:37 pm
"The plan at this time is to remove as many people off the Teddy Roosevelt as we can, understanding that we have to leave a certain amount of folks on-board to perform normal watch-standing duties that keep the ship running," Rear Admiral John Menoni, commander for the Marianas region, told reporters in Guam on Wednesday. [read post]
1 Mar 2016, 8:12 am
[JURIST] Former head of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, US Army Major General Geoffrey Miller, failed to appear before a French court on Tuesday to answer a subpoena [text, PDF, in French] to appear for questioning on his involvement in the torture of two French detainees. [read post]
