Judicial Reform
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 08:34
Minister of Justice Nadhir Ben Ammou attributed “maltreatment” in prisons to “crowdedness” in response to questions about torture at yesterday’s National Constituent Assembly hearing.
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 08:19
Nasr City Misdemeanors Court on Thursday sentenced 40 Al-Azhar University students, including two minors, to a year and a half in prison for staging riots in the area in October.
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 07:15
Some 200 protesters have blocked a highway in Kyrgyzstan's southern Osh region, demanding the release from detention of leading opposition lawmaker Akmatbek Keldibekov.
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 07:13
Kyrgyz parliament deputy from the opposition Ata-Jurt (Fatherland) party has been detained on corruption charges.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 11:19
Human Rights Watch on Wednesday condemned a five-year jail term slapped on a Kuwaiti for tweets deemed offensive to Prophet Mohammad (PBUP) and called for his release.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 11:05
Jordanian military prosecutors on Wednesday charged 15 men, including students, with carrying out "terrorist acts" over clashes on a university campus that injured four people, a judicial official said.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 08:04
Thirty-nine government soldiers accused of war crimes have gone on trial in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 07:57
The head of the main Shia political society in Bahrain has told the BBC that the opposition leadership is being systematically targeted by the state.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 07:35
The President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) says members of the group will start a one-week annual meeting beginning Wednesday at The Hague.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 12:05
A United Arab Emirates court has jailed a man for two years for tweeting about a political trial and Kuwait handed a five-year prison term to a Kuwaiti Twitter user for insulting the Prophet Mohammad, activists and a lawyer said on Tuesday.