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Invisible Prisoners: The Fight for Human Rights

September 4, 2012 02:20:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Katherine Todrys of the Health and Human Rights Division of Human Rights Watch recounts her experiences researching disease transmission and living standards in African prisons. She calls for sweeping criminal justice reforms to address the systemic problems...

July 27, 2012 03:22:19 PM

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara announced Friday that four men responsible for killing seven UN officials during an armed conflict near the border town of Tai were arrested in Liberia [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news...

May 22, 2012 02:53:54 PM

Former Libyan chief of intelligence Abdullah al-Senussi will face charges of illegally entering the country of Mauritania , an anonymous source told Reuters on Monday. Al-Senussi, who served under Muammar Gaddafi, was arrested in Mauritania in...

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Libya intelligence chief arrested

March 17, 2012 03:27:31 PM

Mauritania announced on Saturday that they have arrested former Libyan chief of intelligence Abdullah al-Senussi, who served under Muammar Gaddafi . Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) , the International Criminal Court (ICC) ...

March 9, 2012 04:00:00 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Ellis, a historian at the African Studies Centre, says that the recent influx of refugees from Libya has exacerbated the problem of organized crime in West Africa and has caused emerging complications that are generating increased...

February 1, 2012 04:00:00 PM

Headaches at The Hague: The Trial of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi

December 1, 2011 01:45:06 PM

Transparency International (TI) Thursday released its 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) , again showing some governments failing to protect citizens from corruption, be it abuse of public resources, bribery or secretive decision-making. The CPI...

November 19, 2011 12:15:50 PM

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was captured in southern Libya Friday, officials of the country's interim government have announced. A fugitive since his father's regime fell last month , the highest-profile son of deceased former dictator Muammar Gaddafi...

October 28, 2011 09:21:20 AM

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , Luis Moreno-Ocampo , confirmed Friday that there has been informal contact with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of former Libya leader Muammar Gaddafi ,...

October 23, 2011 01:08:30 PM

A Nigerian village on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in US federal court against Royal Dutch Shell PLC alleging the oil company polluted a drinking water well with benzene at levels 900 times the limits set by the...

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