In these challenging times, JURIST is pledged to provide accurate, well-documented, clear and comprehensive coverage of the rule of law in crisis. But we're a non-profit service powered by law students. We need financial support from our global readership to help us train our volunteers, maintain our website, and expand our reach. Please donate to support our unique educational mission and encourage our dedicated staff in their public commitment to make a more just world. Thank you!

Search Results for: peru

Ex-Peruvian president Fujimori loses challenge to Chile detention

November 15, 2005 03:28:00 PM

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori lost his appeal in a Chilean court Tuesday in his legal effort to be released from custody as he fights his extradition to Peru on charges of corruption...

November 11, 2005 01:15:00 PM

Peru announced Thursday that it is removing its ambassador from Japan to protest Tokyo's refusal to extradite former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori . Fujimori was detained earlier this week in Chile on an international...

November 8, 2005 07:49:00 PM

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was denied release from jail in Chile Tuesday pending a hearing on his extradition to face 21 Peruvian charges of corruption and human rights abuses during his presidency....

READ MORE ▸

Former Peru president arrested in Chile

November 7, 2005 10:40:00 AM

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was arrested in Chile on Monday at the request of the Peruvian government. Fujimori had arrived from Japan in a bid to reenter Peru and run for the presidency in...

October 19, 2005 10:38:00 AM

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori on Tuesday was cleared of corruption in a 1994 arms purchase case, a week after he was barred from running in Peru's 2006 presidential election by the country's...

October 15, 2005 03:22:00 PM

Former president of Ecuador Lucio Gutierrez was arrested Friday evening upon his return to the Pacific coast city of Manta. Gutierrez, 48, was arrested on an order that he posed a threat to national security; he was...

October 11, 2005 09:24:00 AM

Abimael Guzman , founder of Peru's Shining Path guerilla movement, told a Peruvian court Monday that he is not a terrorist, and instead labeled himself a "revolutionary combatant." Guzman is facing a retrial on...

October 10, 2005 08:26:00 PM

The Peruvian Constitutional Court has announced that former president Alberto Fujimori is barred from running in Peru's 2006 presidential election . Court President Javier Alva Orlandini said Sunday that the...

August 18, 2005 11:50:00 AM

Vladimiro Montesinos , a close aide of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and Peru's former intelligence chief, went on trial Wednesday on charges that he ordered the massacres of Maoist rebel supporters by paramilitary death...

August 10, 2005 06:19:00 PM

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has denied an appeal request to reinterpret its November 2004 ruling that upheld the conviction of an American tried in Peru on charges she collaborated with the terrorist group...

READ MORE ▸

Newest
Newer

…

THIS DAY @ LAW

State Union of Serbia and Montenegro dissolves

On June 3, 2006, the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro formerly dissolved with the latter's declaration of independence. After the dissolution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 2003, Serbia and Montenegro was born as a union of the only nations that had not departed the Yugoslav federation. In 2006, Montenegro became the last nation of the former Yugoslavia to break from Serbia. Read Montenegro's 2007 Constitution.

US Supreme Court ruled first federal child labor law unconstitutional

On June 3, 1918, the US Supreme Court ruled in Hammer v. Dagenhart that the first federal child labor law, the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act, was unconstitutional, falling outside the scope of Congressional authority under the Commerce Clause.