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16 May 2011, 1:09 pm
[JURIST] A Malaysian court ruled Monday that prosecutors have enough evidence to pursue a sodomy case against opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim [official profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 11:18 am
[JURIST] Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye [JURIST news archive] pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of unlawful assembly stemming from an incident at a protest last week. [read post]
15 Sep 2014, 10:38 am
[JURIST] An Egyptian court Monday sentenced Mohamed Badie [Washington Institute backgrounder; JURIST news archive], leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood [party website], to life in prison and 14 others to 25 years in prison for murder and inciting violence. [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 7:17 am
A judge in Kenya [BBC backgrounder] has sentenced the leaders of the doctors' union to one month in prison over an ongoing strike.. [read post]
11 Mar 2008, 10:31 am
[JURIST] Leaders of Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) [MIPT backgrounder; JURIST news archive] will stand trial in Uganda rather than at the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] at The Hague, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told AP Tuesday. [read post]
17 Mar 2003, 11:29 am
[JURIST] The BBC is reporting that Robin Cook, the UK government's leader in the House of Commons and former Foreign Secretary, has resigned over Iraq. [read post]
30 Oct 2017, 1:35 pm
A week after President Donald Trump declared the nation’s opioid problem a public health emergency, Baltimore leaders, joined by former President Bill Clinton, are calling for more resources to be devoted to easing the crisis. [read post]
18 May 2007, 8:17 am
[JURIST] German Chancellor Angela Merkel [official website] and other European Union (EU) leaders criticized Russia's human rights record [JURIST news archive] in a series of exchanges at a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin [official website] Friday, marking the end of a summit between the EU and Russia. [read post]
12 Nov 2010, 11:43 am
[JURIST] The Rwandan high court ruled Friday that opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza [campaign website; JURIST news archive] will remain jailed for the duration of her trial on charges of forming a terrorist organization. [read post]
1 Aug 2016, 1:10 pm
Peterson, president of Johns Hopkins Health System and executive vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine, has been named Business Leader of the Year for 2016 by Loyola University Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business and Management. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 10:05 am
[JURIST] Iranian opposition leader Mahdi Karroubi [BBC profile] on Monday publicly invited the government to put him on trial [Kaleme.com report, in Persian] for the civil unrest and violence that erupted in the wake of the hotly disputed 2009 re-election [JURIST news archive] of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
8 Nov 2007, 9:47 am
[JURIST] The military junta in Myanmar [JURIST news archive] Thursday agreed to allow opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC profile] to meet with fellow members of her political party Friday for the first time in three years. [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 10:01 am
[JURIST] A Thai court on Tuesday charged 11 protest leaders with terrorism in connection with Thailand's latest round of political violence [JURIST news archive], denying them bail. [read post]
20 Jun 2006, 12:40 pm
[JURIST] Republican leaders in the US House of Representatives [official website] announced Tuesday that they would postpone final negotiations on immigration reform legislation [JURIST news archive] until after hearings around the country in the coming months. [read post]
17 Oct 2017, 11:42 am
[JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] ruled [judgment] Tuesday that the conviction of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for fraud and money laundering was arbitrary and unfair, and granted damages. [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 7:00 am
David Yau Yau notes that Ismael Konyi, a local leader, agreed to peace talks with the government but insisted that international mediators be part of the process: “He [Yau Yau] demanded [that] UN representatives be present in [the] talks. [read post]
10 Jun 2008, 7:11 am
[JURIST] Defense counsel for Thomas Lubanga [ICC materials; BBC profile] moved to dismiss all charges against the former Congolese militia leader at an International Criminal Court (ICC) status conference at The Hague Tuesday on the ground that prosecutors have refused to provide documents [defense materials, in French] that could aid Lubanga's defense. [read post]
25 Apr 2010, 7:35 am
The Iranian leader said that actions being taken by the United States and its allies in the UN Security Council [official [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 4:41 am
[JURIST] Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy [party profile; JURIST news archive] lost his final appeal to the Cambodian Supreme Court on Wednesday for charges [JURIST report] of intentionally destroying posts marking the border between Cambodia and Vietnam and inciting racial discrimination through that act. [read post]
31 Aug 2017, 11:16 am
[JURIST] Kyrgyzstan's Supreme Court [official website, in Kyrgyz] on Thursday upheld the rejection of a petition to put opposition leader Omurbek Tekebaev on the ballot for the October presidential election. [read post]
