The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, has reversed a decision of the Pre-Trial Chamber I not to issue an arrest warrant for the Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir for the charge of genocide.
The standard of proof applied for the arrest warrant had been set too high, Judge [...]
Big Brother is watching you – and checking your financial information, scanning your body and keeping your fingerprints on file. That’s just the bit you know about.
A new report from the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, Martin Scheinin, reveals a startling amount of private information which is being stored, shared and used [...]
On 14th January 2010, the Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj addressed the State Great Khural and explained his opposition to the death penalty. All death sentences in Mongolia have to be approved by the President, so his opposition represents an effective moratorium until the issue is voted on by the Mongolian Parliament.
Citing several reasons, including the [...]
In 2001, twelve Caribbean countries signed a treaty to establish a Caribbean Court of Justice. Despite this, only Guyana and Barbados have adopted the CCJ as their court of appeal with several countries still sending appeal cases to the UK’s privy council.
Privy Councillor, Lord Phillips, has attacked the amount of time British Justices have to [...]
In a move which The Age newspaper have called “pushing the country towards being like repressive regimes such as China and Iran”, Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Steven Conroy, yesterday announced plans to introduce legislation before the next General Election which would force ISPs in Australia to block black-listed websites which [...]
The Guardian newspaper in the UK was yesterday gagged from reporting a matter of public record: a Parliamentary question which is available online (here).
The question is widely believed to relate to the Trafigura oil “Minton Report”. Specifically, it could be a question by the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme, Paul Farrelly, who asks:
Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme) – To [...]
In a landmark decision, the Argentinian Supreme Court has ruled that it is ‘unconstitutional’ to punish those who use the drug cannabis.
The decision was reached following a case where five men were arrested in possession of marijuana cigarettes, the court ruling that “each adult is free to make lifestyle decisions without the intervention of the [...]
A 42 year old man received open heart surgery in July after he was stabbed in East London by a group who posed as car sellers on popular free classified website, Gumtree.
After the stabbing, the victim was saved by a member of the public who scared away the attackers before providing first aid while awaiting [...]
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