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27 Dec 2007, 2:51 pm
The request was made under the 1976 France-Chad Agreement on Judicial [read post]
10 Oct 2013, 4:10 am
The United Nations Human Rights Committee, in a decision dated Sept. 26 and released last week has ruled (full text of decision in French) that France violated the religious freedom of a Sikh man by requiring that he remove his turban for his passport photo. [read post]
16 Feb 2006, 8:01 pm
[JURIST Europe] French Justice Minister Pascal Clement [official profile] has responded to a new Council of Europe (COE) [official website] report released on Wednesday [COE press release] criticizing France's human rights record by calling it "unfair". [read post]
5 May 2024, 3:43 am
The post HRW: France should put pressure on China for alleged crimes against humanity appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 7:18 am
[JURIST] The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] ruled [judgment; press release] Monday that France had not violated the rights of detainees to be brought promptly before a judicial officer. [read post]
14 Apr 2016, 11:20 am
Susnjar, who was arrested in France [press release, in Croatian] in 2014, allegedly locked innocent civilians in a house and set it on fire. [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 6:45 am
Sitting en banc, the court ruled that France's current rules regarding custody contravene the Article 6 right to a fair trial of the European Convention on Human Rights [text, PDF]. [read post]
28 Nov 2014, 8:48 am
[JURIST] French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius [official profile] in a speech before parliament Friday stated that France would recognize a Palestinian state if international efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fails. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 4:10 pm
[JURIST] Jean-Marie Le Pen [BBC profile], leader of France's far-right National Front party [party website, in French], went on trial Friday for "complicity in contesting crimes against humanity and complicity in justifying war crimes. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 8:28 am
[JURIST] A French court on Monday found US-based Continental Airlines [corporate website] and one of its employees guilty of manslaughter for their roles in the Air France Concorde jet crash [BBC backgrounder] outside Paris in 2000. [read post]
5 Apr 2016, 1:57 pm
France is failing to provide adequate mental health care and appropriate conditions for prisoners with psychosocial disabilities, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] said in a report [text] Tuesday. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 12:10 pm
Ultimately, the Council found [AFP report] that the law's provisions allowing the imposition of a €45,000 fine, a one-year prison sentence, or both, on those who deny the genocide violates various free speech safeguards within France's... [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 10:22 am
[JURIST] The EU Parliament Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats [official website] on Thursday accused France of violating EU law [press release] by deporting up to 1,000 Roma migrants [JURIST news archive] from the country. [read post]
10 Apr 2005, 7:41 am
[JURIST] France's far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen [Wikipedia profile], who surprised observers with his strong performance in the 2002 French presidential election, has called for voters to reject the proposed European Constitution [PDF, text of draft treaty] in a May 29th referendum. [read post]
19 Mar 2014, 10:45 am
[JURIST] France's highest appeals court on Wednesday sentenced former trader Jerome Kerviel [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] to three years in prison for fraudulent covert trading while working for French bank Society Generale (SocGen) [corporate website, in French]. [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 7:06 am
A lawyer for Noriega stated that the former dictator would receive credit for the 32 months he served in a US prison while fighting his extradition to France and will also be... [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 9:15 am
In January, a French trial court in the Aix-En Province agreed [JURIST report] to extradition requests from Russia and Ukraine, both of which house BTA Bank branches, partly because France does not have an extradition agreement with Kazakhstan. [read post]
27 May 2017, 8:35 pm
[JURIST] The government of France, under its newly elected president Emmanuel Macron [official website], announced its intention on Friday to introduce [Inquirer.Net report] a law ending prison terms for marijuana usage by the end of the year, although marijuana consumption will remain a criminal offense. [read post]
13 May 2008, 1:37 am
Moulai v Deputy Public Prosecutor in Creteil, France [2008] EWHC 1024 (Admin); [2008] WLR (D) 148 “Late service of a copy of a duly filed appeal notice was not a fatal bar to an appeal against an order extraditing (or not extraditing) a person. [read post]
20 Aug 2007, 4:10 am
Christine Lagarde, the French economy minister, also sought to calm nerves, saying that banks in France were in good shape. [read post]
