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4 Mar 2008, 3:54 am
[JURIST] The National Parliament of East Timor [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] voted Monday to recommend that an international commission be formed to investigate last month's assassination attempts against East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao [BBC profiles]. [read post]
16 Apr 2008, 11:50 am
[JURIST] Lawyers for former Italian Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI) [official website] chief Nicolo Pollari said Wednesday that they have included Italian Prime Minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile] as a requested witness to testify in support of Pollari's assertion that he was not involved in a reported 2003 CIA kidnapping [JURIST news archive; WP timeline] case. [read post]
27 Feb 2007, 11:00 pm
She would die in 1917, still an exile, in Algiers.... 1986, Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was assassinated, and his wife Lisbeth Palme wounded, after a gunman shot them as they left a Stockholm movie theater. [read post]
28 Apr 2015, 4:09 pm
” Kristin Perry and Sandra Stier, plaintiffs in the 2013 “Proposition 8″ case, Hollingsworth v. [read post]
5 Aug 2004, 5:05 pm
The coup replaced Fiji's first ethnic Indian prime minister.... [read post]
13 Dec 2004, 12:38 pm
[JURIST] Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin has joined opposition leaders in rejecting a call for a national referendum on same-sex marriage in the wake of Thursday's Supreme Court of Canada ruling (reported in JURIST's Paper Chase) that opened the way for federal legislation legalizing the unions. [read post]
11 Feb 2006, 4:09 am
[JURIST] Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra [official profile] announced Saturday that Thailand [government website] will hold a national referendum on whether to amend the nine-year-old Thai Constitution [text] April 19 in conjunction with the country's next Senate election. [read post]
18 Oct 2006, 8:26 am
[JURIST] UK Prime Minister Tony Blair [official profile] blamed judges and political opponents for the disappearance of two terror suspects [JURIST report] during his monthly news conference [transcript] on Wednesday, insisting that his attempts to enact stronger terrorism legislation "were prevented by opposition in Parliament and then by the courts in ensuring that was done. [read post]
1 Sep 2007, 5:37 am
[JURIST] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan [IHT backgrounder] told the country's parliament Friday that his government will draft a new constitution that would more effectively protect individual rights in accordance with international standards. [read post]
21 Jun 2008, 12:17 pm
[JURIST] The Italian judge presiding over the corruption trial [JURIST report] of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and his former lawyer David Mills said Friday accord to Reuters that hearings in the case will continue despite a request for her removal by Berlusconi's lawyers. [read post]
21 May 2010, 11:01 am
[JURIST] Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva [official profile; JURIST news archive] on Friday promised an independent investigation into recent clashes between anti-government protesters know as red shirts [BBC backgrounder] and security officials that left more than 80 dead. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 9:15 am
[JURIST] The Italian Constitutional Court [official website, in Italian] on Thursday struck down portions of a law [matierials, in Italian] backed by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] that would have granted Berlusconi and other public officials temporary immunity from charges while in office. [read post]
19 Nov 2011, 11:15 am
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) [official website] organized the protests earlier this week [press release] in an attempt to force the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) [NYT backgrounder] to "intervene and withdraw the supra-constitutional principles proposed by Deputy Prime... [read post]
8 Jun 2008, 6:28 pm
Then, you'll be all primed to participate in the MOMocrats podcast! [read post]
22 Jun 2016, 7:52 am
In April President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi [BBC profile] transferred sovereignty of Tiran and Sanafir islands in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabian Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman [official profile] as a gesture of good will following a meeting in which deals for oil and development had been discussed. [read post]
7 Mar 2005, 11:45 pm
[JURIST] AP is reporting that Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj [official website, English version] has resigned after being indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague. [read post]
13 Feb 2006, 2:06 am
[JURIST Europe] UK Chancellor Gordon Brown [official profile], widely expected to succeed Tony Blair [JURIST news archive] as British Prime Minister before the next election if not sooner, delivered a major policy address Monday calling for a toughening-up of the Terrorism Bill [amended text] currently before the UK Parliament. [read post]
20 Jul 2006, 7:53 am
[JURIST] A lawyer for Tariq Aziz [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], former deputy prime minister and foreign minister for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, has filed a habeas corpus petition [DOC text] with the US Supreme Court [official website], seeking his release from the custody of coalition forces in Iraq. [read post]
6 Jun 2007, 7:17 am
The CUD has previously accused Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of stealing the election by voter fraud [JURIST report]. [read post]
16 Nov 2007, 9:41 am
A government spokesperson also announced Friday that Georgian Prime Minister Zurab [read post]
