Prison ordered to provide Muslim inmates with meals in accordance with Ramadan
A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order requiring a Washington correctional facility to provide four inmates with nutritional diets for the remainder of Ramadan, the holy month in which Muslims abstain from eating or drinking between dawn and sunset. The temporary order was necessary due to the immediacy of the concern. The inmates had [...]
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was released from prison on Friday after six years in custody. The planned release was announced earlier this month after Mubarak was cleared of a conspiracy...
Meshal v. Higgenbotham: Do All Lives Really Matter To Our Courts?
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin G. Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law discusses the recent decision in Meshal v. Higgenbotham... In the Meshal decision on Friday, October 23, 2015, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit...
Germany rights group files criminal complaint against high-ranking CIA official
The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) on Monday filed a criminal complaint against a high-ranking CIA official for mistreatment of Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen who was detained and allegedly tortured for...
Egypt criminal court sentences 11 to death over soccer riots
An Egyptian criminal court on Tuesday sentenced 11 individuals to death for their involvement in a 2012 soccer riot. The riots, which occurred in Port Said, killed more than 70 and injured about 1,000 others crushed by crowds attempting...
An Egyptian court has referred 11 men accused of being involved in deadly 2012 soccer riots to the most senior religious official, the final step before imposing a death sentence. The Grand Mufti is scheduled to give his final...
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced four members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death, along with 14 others to life in prison. The individuals were accused of murder and possession of firearms, among other charges,...
The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters ruled Saturday that the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas is a terrorist organization. The decision was based on lawsuits alleging that Hamas is responsible for multiple...
JURIST Guest Columnist Philip Leach, of Middlesex University and the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), discusses how the Irish government has urged the European Court of Human Rights to reopen the 1978 case Ireland v. UK ...The Irish...
An Egyptian High court on Sunday suspended Egyptian activist and human rights lawyer Mahienour El-Masry's six-month jail sentence. El-Masry has been detained for violating Egypt's protest law since May and in June had her jail sentence reduced ...
