President Reagan shooter given unconditional release by US judge
US District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman Wednesday granted John Hinckley, the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, freedom from all his remaining restrictions. This unconditional release occurs 41 years after Hinckley’s assassination attempt on President Reagan. In September Judge Friedman stated his intent to release Hinckley from his remaining release restrictions on [...]
A federal judge Tuesday increased the prison sentence of a man convicted of planning to join ISIS and to attack an FBI agent. US District Judge Margo Brodie had originally sentenced Fareed Mumuni to 17 years in prison. Following a decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit which called the sentence [...]
Grand jury indicts Buffalo shooter on 25 charges including domestic terrorism
A New York grand jury indicted Wednesday the man accused of carrying out a racist shooting at Tops Market in Buffalo on May 14. Payton Gendron shot 13 people, killing of 10 of them. All the victims who died were black. Buffalo police arrested Gendron after the shooting ceased, and he surrendered to the police. [...]
Australia judge refers Indigenous age pension case to full federal court
An Australian judge Tuesday referred an Indigenous Australian man’s request to receive his social security age pension three years early to a full panel of the Federal Court of Australia. Justice Debra Mortimer ordered the full federal court to consider the case in an 87-page decision. Dennis James Fisher, a 64-year-old Indigenous Australian man, seeks [...]
Ireland court finds former soldier guilty of ISIS membership
A three-judge Irish Special Criminal Court panel Monday found Lisa Smith, a former Irish soldier, guilty of being a member of ISIS. Smith traveled to Syria after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the former head of the Islamic State Caliphate, asked international Muslims to come to Syria. Smith plead not guilty to ISIS membership, claiming she only traveled [...]
Mélanie Cantin is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Ottawa, and a rising 2L at the University of Ottawa. On Friday May 13th, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its judgment in the case of R v Brown, rejecting the constitutionality of section 33.1 of the Criminal Code, a provision removing “extreme self-induced intoxication akin to [...]
DOJ charges Iraqi national in alleged plot to assassinate George W. Bush
The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Tuesday arrested an Iraqi national charged with an alleged plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush. According to a statement from the US Department of Justice, 52-year-old Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab entered the US on a visitor visa in September 2020. Shihab then filed for asylum and US [...]
Dutch police arrest Syrian militia member on war crimes charges
The Netherlands Public Prosecution Service Tuesday arrested a 34-year-old Syrian man accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes during in the Syrian Civil War. The unnamed suspect is reported to have served in the state-aligned Liwa al-Quds militia during the ongoing conflict. According to prosecutors, the suspect, along with other members of the militia, [...]
Amnesty International calls on FIFA to compensate migrant workers in Qatar
Amnesty International, along with several other human rights organizations, Thursday released a letter to President of FIFA Gianni Infantino requesting that FIFA set aside at least $440 million to compensate migrant workers in Qatar, where the next FIFA World Cup is set to take place. Amnesty International has also released a public relations campaign encouraging [...]
To the Person Sitting in Darkness: Buffalo, Racialized Violence, and International Law
“Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States,” said W.E.B. DuBois once. And now we have another day in the USA, another shooting by a white supremacist. Authorities say that an 18-year-old white male who apparently shot and murdered ten people in Buffalo, New York, was motivated by hatred [...]
