Sri Lanka: Supreme Court must use its authority Scoop Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 6:44 pm | Press Release: Asian Human Rights Commission | Sri Lanka: The Supreme Court must use its authority to expedite the passing of a law on contempt of court | On two occasions the United Nations Human Rights Committee has viewed that the GoSL has abused contempt of court...
Israeli court rejects plea to keep Kafka papers secret The Siasat Daily | Jerusalem, July 22: An Israeli court has ruled that papers once belonging to Franz Kafka be made public for the first time. | The unpublished works of the late Czech author have been hidden from the world for more than 40 years, and are the subject of a bitterly-contested ownership wrangle. | Tel ...
Turkey Softens Law That Jailed Young Kurds Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | BATMAN, Turkey -- Berivan Sayaca, a vivacious 15-year-old Kurdish girl, dreamed of escaping her life as a seamstress and studying law. Instead, she was convicted of supporting terrorism by attending a protest rally and sentenced to nearly eight yea...
Turkey Softens Law That Jailed Young Kurds The New York Times | BATMAN, Turkey — Berivan Sayaca, a vivacious 15-year-old Kurdish girl, dreamed of escaping her life as a seamstress and studying law. Instead, she was convicted of supporting terrorism by attending a protest rally and sentenced to nearly eigh...
Pakistan: Blasphemy Law Revisited Scoop Friday, 30 July 2010, 5:03 pm | Press Release: Asian Human Rights Commission | Pakistan: Blasphemy Law Revisited | Is it not time for the Ulema to re-examine their thesis that the blasphemy law can stop private citizens from killing suspects? Surely ...
Dismissal Of Judges Sends Intimidating Message Scoop Friday, 30 July 2010, 4:50 pm | Press Release: United Nations | Dismissal Of Honduran Judges Sends An Intimidating Message – UN Rights Experts | New York, Jul 29 2010 6:10PM | The recent dismissal of three judges and a magistrate in Honduras, ...
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Lawyer Calls Contractor in Crane Collapse a Scapegoat The New York Times | The crucial error that led to the toppling of a tower crane and the deaths of seven people two years ago was made well before the day of the collapse, the defense lawyer for a ri...
Inquiry after Hove Crown Court judge's summing up BBC News Complaints that a judge made anti-Israel comments while summing up in the Hove Crown Court trial of seven anti-war activists are being investigated. | It follows a number of complaints to the Office for Judicial Complaints about Judge George Bathurst...
Investments in Renewable Energy Scoop Tuesday, 27 July 2010, 6:18 pm | Press Release: America.gov | Investments in Renewable Energy Top Fossil-Fuel Projects | (National renewable-energy policies encourage investments, reports say) (669) | By Karin Rives Staff Writer | Washington - Despit...
Lawyers haggle over rights to Kafka's cache Daily Star Lebanon | Israeli library claims the author’s ‘will was not honored, it was desecrated’ | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 | - Powered by | Aron Heller | Associated Press | OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: It seems almost Kafkaesque: Ten safety deposit boxes of never-publish...
Arrest warrant reportedly issued for lawyer in stoning case The Siasat Daily | Berlin, July 26: An arrest warrant has been issued for Iranian lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, and his wife and brother have already been arrested, opposition websites reported Monday. | Mostafaei is the lawyer of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who is conv...
The grim business of chasing mass killers Irish Times | Darfur is the first genocide of the 21st century, it should be the last, says the ICC's chief prosecutor, writes ARTHUR BEESLEY European Correspondent in The Hague | A ring of fortified electric fencing surrounds the tower blocks in The Hague which are home to the International Criminal Court (ICC). From here chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo p...
Israel considers stance on aid flotilla inquiry Irish Times | MARK WEISS in Jerusalem | ISRAEL IS considering whether to co-operate with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) investigation into the maritime raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla after prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu described the probe as "similar to the Goldstone committee, with unsympathetic trends, to say the least". | No offici...
