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4 Feb 2007, 8:19 am
[JURIST] A prominent French Socialist Party (PS) [official website] leader called Sunday for France to recognize its crimes in colonial Algeria [JURIST news archives], including the alleged massacres of 45,000 Algerians demanding independence at the end of World War II, but stopped short of calling for an official French apology. [read post]
10 Oct 2007, 9:09 am
[JURIST] France Wednesday formally agreed to abolish the death penalty in all circumstances when it ratified [press release, in French] a provision of the European Convention on Human Rights [text; death penalty dossier]. [read post]
22 Jul 2005, 3:44 pm
[JURIST] Italy and France announced new security measures Friday designed to combat terrorism following the recent London bombings [JURIST report]. [read post]
21 Jan 2007, 6:51 am
[JURIST] A former Nigeria [JURIST news archive] oil minister, Dan Etete, will stand trial in France to face money laundering charges, according to a report Sunday by the Journal du Dimanche [media website] newspaper. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 9:47 am
[JURIST] An aid worker was charged in a French court Wednesday with conspiring to allow illegal residents into the country in connection with an aborted airlift of 103 supposed Darfur [JURIST news archive] orphans from Chad to France last year. [read post]
5 Jun 2004, 6:11 am
On Saturday in the southwestern French town of Begles, two men were wed by the town's mayor, Noel Mamere, in the first same-sex marriage in France. [read post]
13 Aug 2008, 4:53 am
Last year, Ashraf Jima Hajuj filed a lawsuit [JURIST report] in France against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi [official [read post]
30 Apr 2010, 7:34 am
Noriega currently awaits trial in France on money laundering charges. [read post]
28 Feb 2005, 1:43 pm
[JURIST] In Monday's international brief, France's National Assembly [official website in French] met today in joint session with the country's Senate [official website] at the historic Palace of Versailles to approve an amendment to the French constitution [official text] that would permit the nation to hold a referendum on approving the proposed European constitution [official website]. [read post]
14 Mar 2006, 2:55 am
[JURIST] Students at 59 [UNEF press release, in French] of France's 84 universities went on strike Tuesday, occupying and blockading about 50 of them in protest against a new law proposed by the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin [official website] that would allow companies to fire workers under the age of 26 within the first two years with little notice or severance. [read post]
6 Jun 2007, 1:02 am
[JURIST] France's practice of expelling non-citizens accused of links to violent extremism lacks sufficient procedural safeguards and undermines human rights [press release], according to a report [PDF text] released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch [advocacy website]. [read post]
8 Oct 2007, 3:39 am
The rumor goes that France is due to make a sea change shift towards supporting the EPLA, an initiative to harmonize the way patents are being litigated in Europe. [read post]
6 Jan 2010, 12:04 pm
[JURIST] French Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie [official profile] and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner [official profile] on Wednesday announced plans to create a special judicial service to investigate and charge individuals accused of crimes against humanity and genocide in France or in other countries. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 10:03 am
[JURIST] Some forms of online piracy in France are on the rise in spite of the recently passed anti-piracy law [legislative materials, in French; JURIST news archive], according to a March study [text, PDF; in French] conducted by the Marsouin Unit [official website, in French] at the University of Rennes [official website]. [read post]
8 Sep 2008, 3:08 am
[JURIST] French politicians are criticizing a court's decision to postpone a Muslim suspect's trial on armed-robbery charges during the holy month of Ramadan [Beliefnet.com backgrounder], arguing that it violates France's constitutional separation of church and state. [read post]
16 Feb 2009, 8:06 am
[JURIST] The French Council of State [official website, in French], France's highest court, ruled [opinion, in French; press release, in French] Monday that the French government bore responsibility for deporting Jews during World War II, while denying further reparations for individuals. [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 4:45 am
[JURIST] French President Nicholas Sarkozy [official website, in French] admitted [text, PDF, in French; video, in French] Thursday that France and the international community made "mistakes" in handling the 1994 Rwandan genocide [HRW backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
26 Oct 2005, 8:43 am
[JURIST] The United States and France circulated a draft UN resolution Tuesday that demands that Syria fully cooperate with a UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news archive] and threatens economic sanctions should Damascus not cooperate. [read post]
16 Oct 2009, 1:32 am
[JURIST] The French Constitutional Court [official website, in French] on Wednesday struck down [decision, in French] two articles in a small and medium enterprise (SME) access to credit law that would have legalized Islamic law compliant financial instruments in France. [read post]
7 Jul 2006, 3:40 am
[JURIST] France intends to grant residency papers to thousands of immigrant families with children in French schools, government officials said Thursday. [read post]
