Lawyers for jailed former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner, Platon Lebedev , filed an appeal Friday challenging their six-year extended sentences for embezzlement and fraud. Unless the appeal succeeds,...
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The Khamovnichesky District Court in Moscow on Thursday sentenced former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner, Platon Lebedev , to six additional years in prison, extending...
International human rights organizations and numerous governments criticized Russia's justice system following Monday's guilty verdict against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev on embezzlement charges. Amnesty International (AI)...
Ukraine prosecutors charge ex-PM Tymoshenko with misusing state funds
Ukrainian prosecutors on Monday filed criminal charges against opposition leader and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko for allegedly misappropriating state funds during her time in office from 2007-2010. Tymoshenko, whose...
Is All Fair in War? Congressman-Elect West and the Limits of Military Necessity
JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) of South Texas College of Law, says that past actions of a former Army Colonel recently elected to Congress highlight the need for military leaders to look beyond the...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday reversed its prior decision and allowed a suit by the heirs of victims of the Armenian genocide to proceed....
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's ability to conduct "targeted killings" in the case of radical Muslim cleric...
Supreme Court to hear Wal-Mart gender discrimination, global warming cases
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in Wal-Mart v. Dukes , a massive gender discrimination class action lawsuit. The issues are (1) whether claims for monetary...
No Space for Democracy and Rule of Law: Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Saroop Ijaz, an advocate before the Lahore High Court in Pakistan, says that if Pakistan is to function as a democracy and - equally significantly - to address the threat of extremism both at home and...
UN Security Council Membership: The Admission of India and Other Necessary Reforms
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that US President Barack Obama made the right move in recommending India for a permanent position on the UN Security Council, but that the Council also needs to...