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Uganda court overturns anti-sedition law
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 3:35pm MSD
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[JURIST] A panel of the Ugandan Constitutional Court [official website] ruled unanimously Wednesday that a law criminalizing sedition violates the guarantees of free speech and freedom of the press under the Ugandan Constitution [text, PDF]. The law made it a crime to say or publish statements that promoted hatred, contempt or disaffection for the Ugandan government, president or judiciary [GlobaLex backgrounder]. A conviction could carry a sentence of seven years. The law was first challenged by Andrew Mwenda four years ago, after he was charged with sedition [JURIST report] in 2005. The court held that the law unconstitutionally restricts [New... -
Yemen counter-terror methods violate human rights: AI
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 2:09pm MSD
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[JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Wednesday criticized [report, PDF; press release] methods used by the government of Yemen [JURIST news archive] in counter-terror operations as violations of human rights. In a report, "Yemen: Cracking Down Under Pressure," the rights group accused the government of perpetrating numerous human right abuses in attempting to quell the rebel movements of the Zaidi Shi'a [Al Jazeera backgrounder] in the north and the Southern Movement, in addition to its US-sponsored actions against al Qaeda [CFR backgrounder]. These alleged abuses include arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances, among other actions taken by... -
Equatorial Guinea defends executions over 2009 coup
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 1:55pm MSD
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[JURIST] Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday defended the execution of four men convicted on Saturday of attempting to assassinate President Teodoro Obiang during a 2009 attack on the presidential palace. Jose Abeso Nsue, Manuel Ndong Anseme, Alipio Ndong Asumu and Jacinto Micha Obiang were executed immediately after being convicted by a military court in Malabo. Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] condemned the execution [press release] on Monday claiming that the four men were detained in Black Beach prison in Malabo where they were tortured into giving false confessions. Denouncing the government's judicial procedure, AI Africa Director Erwin van der Borght stated:These... -
DOJ to appeal decision blocking funding for stem cell research
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 1:11pm MSD
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[JURIST] The US Department of Justice [DOJ] [official website] announced Tuesday that it will appeal a preliminary injunction [JURIST report] issued earlier this week blocking federal funding for embryonic stem cell [JURIST news archive] research. The DOJ will seek to appeal the suspension and also to stay the suspension while the appeal is pending. Last year, President Barack Obama signed an executive order [JURIST report] permitting federal funding for some forms of embryonic stem cell research. Despite the executive order, Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] held that evidence showed... -
Switzerland activists withdraw from campaign to reinstate death penalty
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 12:00pm MSD
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[JURIST] Capital punishment advocates in Switzerland on Wednesday unexpectedly withdrew [advocacy website, in German] from their campaign to reinstate the death penalty [JURIST news archive] only one day after the Federal Chancellery [official website, in German] allowed them to begin collecting signatures [JURIST report] in support of a referendum [text, in German]. The advocacy group did not give a reason for its sudden withdrawal from the campaign, though it continues to argue that the Swiss criminal justice system hurts victims by failing to adequately punish those convicted of serious crimes. On Tuesday, the Swiss government set a six-month deadline for... -
Ex-Khmer Rouge leader appeals conviction
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 10:56am MSD
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[JURIST] Lawyers for former Khmer Rouge [BBC backgrounder] official Kaing Guek Eav [case materials; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday filed a notice of an appeal [text, PDF] of his conviction by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website]. Last month, the trial chamber of the ECCC convicted Kaing [JURIST report], also known as "Duch," of crimes against humanity and of violating the 1949 Geneva Conventions, sentencing him to 35 years in prison. Kaing's sentence was reduced to 19 years after the court considered time served as well as other factors. The defense's appeal calls for Kaing's... -
Wyoming same-sex marriage ban challenged
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 10:08am MSD
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[JURIST] A gay couple has filed suit [Justia docket] in the US District Court for the District of Wyoming [official website] challenging the state's law defining marriage [20-1-101 text] as only existing between a man and a woman. The suit was filed earlier this month by David Shupe-Roderick and Ryan W. Dupree of Cheyenne after they were denied a marriage license from the office of the Laramie County Clerk [official website]. The plaintiffs are seeking an injunction against the enforcement of any law that denies same-sex couples the right to civil marriage. The district attorney has yet to comment on... -
Conservative Austria party calls for vote to ban minarets, face veils
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 9:24am MSD
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[JURIST] Austria's conservative Freedom Party [official website, in German] on Monday called for a special vote [press release, in German] on whether to ban face veils and the construction of minarets, two of the most visible symbols of the Islamic faith. Specifically, the referendum would ask Viennese citizens to decide whether to ban the construction of mosques with minarets, whether to ban the wearing of the burqa and the niqab [JURIST news archives] and whether the government should require Muslim citizens to sign a statement affirming a commitment to Austrian secular law over the Sharia law [CFR backgrounder; JURIST news... -
Israel police call for ex-PM to stand trial on real estate corruption charges
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 8:49am MSD
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[JURIST] The Israeli Police [official website] on Monday recommended that former prime minister Ehud Olmert [official profile; JURIST news archive] stand trial for his alleged involvement in the Holyland bribery scandal that occurred during his time as mayor of Jerusalem. A investigation was commenced [JURIST report] in April to probe Olmert's involvement in the alleged scandal in which top Jerusalem officials are believed to have taken bribes for enabling the construction of a high-rise luxury housing development. The police now suspect Olmert [AP report] of fraud, breach of trust and taking bribes to promote the project. Seven former officials have... -
Federal court denies habeas petition in Davis death penalty case
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 8:16am MSD
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[JURIST] The US District Court for the Southern District of Georgia [official website] on Tuesday denied [order part 1, PDF; part 2, PDF] the habeas corpus petition of Troy Anthony Davis [advocacy website; JURIST news archive], convicted and sentenced to death for murdering an off-duty Savannah, Georgia, police officer. After Davis exhausted his appeals under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act [text], the US Supreme Court [official website] took the rare step of granting [order, PDF; JURIST report] his original writ of habeas corpus [cert. petition, PDF] and instructed the district court to examine new findings of fact in...