Source: The New York Times By Jeffrey Gettleman, Hari Kumar and Kai Schultz NEW DELHI — Following the headlines, you might get the feeling that India’s Supreme Court is everywhere at once, all […]
Source: The New York Times By Palko Karasz LONDON — Tommy Robinson, the jailed British far-right activist backed by the former Trump aide Stephen K. Bannon but reviled by others […]
Source: The Washington Post By Niraj Chokshi Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore already lost his job once. Now he’s at risk of losing it again. A state commission on Friday suspended Moore from […]
Source: RNS (RNS) President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, would be the current court’s fourth Jewish justice if confirmed. For Jews, who represent about 2 percent of the […]
Source: The Washington Post Some of the most hotly contested issues that come in front of the Supreme Court are based in religion. Our national debates over the death penalty, […]
Source: The Daily Signal Last week, over the dissent of Justice Samuel Alito, the U.S. Supreme Courtdeclined to hear a case involving a prison’s refusal to allow a Jewish man […]
Source: Samaa.tv: LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) today awarded death sentence to two militants for their role in 2010 bomb and gun attack on an Ahmadi worship place in Lahore. The two convicts, Maawia and Abdullah, were handed the sentence on seven counts. Both the militants are members of proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan […]
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The Nation: by Zoe Carpenter — Shortly before 2 in the afternoon on Sunday, more than a dozen people walked onto an interstate near the Capitol in Washington and formed a human chain. Eight lanes of traffic came to halt. During rush hour the next morning, protestors closed down the […]
Mariam Ibrahim, the Sudan woman who escaped a death sentence imposed for renouncing her faith, says she wants to campaign for others who face religious persecution. Speaking to the BBC in the US, where she is seeking asylum, Ms Ibrahim said she hopes to return to Sudan one day. READ […]
Mariam Ibrahim, the Sudan woman who escaped a death sentence imposed for renouncing her faith, says she wants to campaign for others who face religious persecution. Speaking to the BBC in the US, where she is seeking asylum, Ms Ibrahim said she hopes to return to Sudan one day. READ […]
The International Criminal Court has opened a formal probe into war crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR). ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said there had been “endless” instances of rape, murder, forced displacement, persecution and pillaging since 2012. READ MORE…
The International Criminal Court has opened a formal probe into war crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR). ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said there had been “endless” instances of rape, murder, forced displacement, persecution and pillaging since 2012. READ MORE…
theguardian: by Sadhbh Walshe — Sitting and waiting in US District Court here on Wednesday, you got the undeniable sense that something unusual was about to happen. Here was the end of a terrorism trial with two men who had already pled guilty – the British citizen Babar Ahmad to providing material […]
Forum 18 News Service: by Mushfiq Bayram — On 10 July Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal against two lower courts’ support of the State Commission for Religious Affairs’ (SCRA) refusal to give state registration to the Ahmadi Muslim community. Asel Bayastanova, the Ahmadi’s defence lawyer, told Forum 18 News […]
Forum 18 News Service: by Mushfiq Bayram — On 10 July Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal against two lower courts’ support of the State Commission for Religious Affairs’ (SCRA) refusal to give state registration to the Ahmadi Muslim community. Asel Bayastanova, the Ahmadi’s defence lawyer, told Forum 18 News […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia’s top court weighed in Monday on the country’s longstanding fight over the word “Allah,” saying non-Muslims cannot use it to refer to God. But the government said hours later the judgment applied only to one newspaper at the centre of the case, adding still more […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia’s top court weighed in Monday on the country’s longstanding fight over the word “Allah,” saying non-Muslims cannot use it to refer to God. But the government said hours later the judgment applied only to one newspaper at the centre of the case, adding still more […]
Dawn.com: by Mehreen Zahra-Malik — Courtroom No One’s marble-and-wood panelled walls, three-storey-high ceiling, skylights and subdued tone have always reminded me of libraries of old, where murmurings are the only language permitted. On Thursday morning, the courtroom felt more austere than usual, lawyers nervously listening to the proceedings, the modern […]
Dawn.com: by Mehreen Zahra-Malik — Courtroom No One’s marble-and-wood panelled walls, three-storey-high ceiling, skylights and subdued tone have always reminded me of libraries of old, where murmurings are the only language permitted. On Thursday morning, the courtroom felt more austere than usual, lawyers nervously listening to the proceedings, the modern […]