Egypt high Court acquits ex-president Mubarak of 2011 civil uprising killings
The Egypt Court of Cassation on Thursday acquitted former president Hosni Mubarak in a retrial of charges that he killed protesters during the civil uprising in 2011 that ended his 30-year...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein reaffirmed the UN's long-standing position against the death penalty Wednesday and urged member states to end its use. In his opening statement at the biennial high-level panel...
Italian President Sergio Mattarella granted a partial pardon Tuesday for ex-CIA officer Sabrina De Sousa related to the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric form a Milan street in 2003. The cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama...
A Portuguese court ordered the extradition of former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative Sabrina de Sousa to Italy Tuesday for a four-year prison sentence. De Sousa had been convicted in absentia along with 26 other Americans...
Egypt's Court of Cassation , the nation's highest court, on Monday upheld the death penalty for 10 men involved in the Port Said Stadium Riot in which more than 70 individuals were killed after...
JURIST Contributing Editor, Professor Emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and author Marjorie Cohn discusses the constitutional violations resulting from the executive order banning nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries ... On January 27, 2017, President Trump made good on...
Egyptian authorities on Wednesday extended the detention of Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein by four days. Hussein was arrested on December 20. His detention was originally supposed to expire on January 4 and January 19, but his...
The Egyptian government prohibited a prominent human rights lawyer from leaving the country on Thursday. Negad Borai, the lawyer who runs the United Group for Law intended to visit family in Jordan when airport authorities prevented [AP...
Authorities in Kuwait executed seven people on Wednesday, including Kuwaiti prince Faisal Abudallah Al Jaber Al Sabah. These are the first executions in the country since 2013. Al Sabah was convicted for premeditated murder in the death of...
UN agency: more than 100 journalists killed in line of work last year
The UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reported Monday that more than 100 journalists were killed in the line of duty in 2016. While the number is lower than the 115 killed in 2015, it...
