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20 Mar 2006, 4:45 am
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, an Afghani man is on trial for criminal charges punishable by death related to his conversion from Islam to Christianity over 16 years ago while working for a Christian aid organization in Pakistan. [read post]
23 Feb 2006, 7:01 am
[JURIST] Leading Thursday's international brief, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [BBC profile] has been named among possible target for UN Security Council [official website] sanctions being considered against high-ranking officials in the Sudanese government that are thought to be complicit in human rights abuses currently occurring in Darfur [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
27 Feb 2006, 6:11 am
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, despite the status of Hamas as a listed terrorist entity, the European Union [official website] has announced plans at a foreign ministers' meeting Monday to attempt to work around a legal ban that prohibits European nations from providing funding to any member of Hamas. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 6:09 am
[JURIST] An international group of human rights lawyers on Tuesday petitioned [text, PDF; press release, PDF] the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention [official website] to condemn to the detention of Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng [advocacy website; JURIST news archive], missing for more than a year. [read post]
21 Apr 2004, 8:03 pm
In international law news Wednesday, Russia has exercised its power to veto UN Security Council resolutions for the first time since 1994 by vetoing a draft resolution that would have terminated the mandate of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus and replaced it with the UN Settlement Force in Cyprus. [read post]
25 Mar 2005, 12:11 pm
[JURIST] In Friday's international brief, Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro [official profile] told a press conference Thursday that despite a harshly worded 'letter to the people' [official text] released by South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun [official profile] Wednesday, Japan would not respond aggressively to the current dispute over the ownership of the Dokdo/Takeshima islets; Chief [read post]
1 Feb 2007, 10:10 am
The statement comes amid international outcry [BBC report] after confirmations that China had successfully launched a missile that destroyed a weather satellite earlier this month. [read post]
13 Apr 2006, 2:43 am
[JURIST] Leading Thursday's international brief, the US and UK representatives to the UN Security Council [official website] introduced a list of four individuals in Sudan [government website] that they allege have taken active steps to frustrate the attempted peace process in the Darfur region [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
18 Nov 2005, 3:40 am
[JURIST] Leading Friday's international brief, UN officials are now admitting that membership of the Security Council is unlikely to change anytime soon, despite months of negotiation and calls for changes [JURIST report] to the body's composition. [read post]
8 Apr 2005, 4:51 am
[JURIST] Leading Friday's international brief, opposition members in Togo [government website in French] clashed with police on the first day of political campaigning for the national elections required by the resignation [JURIST report] of Faure Gnassingbe [BBC profile]. [read post]
24 Feb 2006, 9:05 am
[JURIST] Leading Friday's international brief, South Korea has announced plans to create a national database containing the genetic profiles of individuals convicted of criminal sexual offenses and a national registry accessible by the public that would list names and addresses of convicted sex offenders. [read post]
19 Apr 2004, 3:15 pm
In international law news Monday, the UN Security Council convened an emergency meeting Monday afternoon to discuss the situation in the Middle East, following Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Abdelaziz Rantissi. [read post]
22 Jul 2005, 1:45 pm
[JURIST] Leading Friday's international brief, the main political opposition party in South Africa, the Democratic Alliance [official website], has called on South African President Thabo Mbeki [profile] to reject a request by Zimbabwean officials for financial aid to support the rapidly collapsing Zimbabwean economy. [read post]
10 May 2006, 2:09 am
[JURIST] Leading Wednesday's international brief, the High Court in London has recommended that the UK hacker behind unprecedented attacks on US military computer systems in late 2001 and early 2002 be extradited to the US to face criminal charges [US DOJ indictment]. [read post]
20 Jun 2005, 9:42 am
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minister Ali Chirau Mwakwere [Wikipedia profile] has announced that Kenya [government website] would actively be seeking to obtain one of the two permanent regional seats for Africa under the current proposed reform plans [JURIST report] for the UN Security Council [official website]. [read post]
13 Feb 2006, 12:22 am
[JURIST] Leading Monday's international brief, the Nepal Supreme Court [official website] has handed down an historic decision holding that the Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC) [JURIST report], created by King Gyanendra [official profile, BBC profile] following his dismissal of the elected government [JURIST report], is unconstitutional and ordering the body to cease and desist all [read post]
21 Jan 2005, 12:25 pm
[JURIST] Leading Friday's international brief, a key member of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement [official website], now the ruling party in Southern Sudan, has expressed concern about the makeup of the proposed UN peacekeeping force to be deployed in March. [read post]
21 Jun 2005, 10:08 am
[JURIST] Leading Tuesday's international brief, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka [official profile], Executive Director of the UN Human Settlements Programme [official website], as Special Envoy to Zimbabwe [government website] to investigate the continuing mass evictions [JURIST report] taking place under Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe [Wikipedia profile] [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 4:15 pm
[JURIST] Leaders of 34 international bar associations and law societies called for the "immediate closure" of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in a letter [PDF text] released Monday. [read post]
25 May 2004, 4:14 pm
A representative of Amnesty International has challenged President Bush's plan to demolish Abu Ghraib prison, arguing that leaving the prison standing could aid in the prosecution of crimes committed there under Saddam Hussein's regime. [read post]
