Egypt: Ministerial Resolution Grants County Chiefs Authority to Arrest and...
(Aug. 18, 2015) On August 12, 2015, the Minister of Justice issued a statement announcing that he has granted the county chiefs across Egypt the legal right to arrest and detain individuals suspected...
View ArticleIsrael: Supreme Court Suspends Detention of Islamic Jihad Activist
(Aug. 25, 2015) On August 19, 2015, Israel’s Supreme Court suspended the continued detention of a person determined to be “an activist of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization.” The Military...
View ArticleMaldives: Rights Commissioner Criticizes Detention of Former President
(Sept. 11, 2015) In a statement released on August 25, 2015, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed concern about the re-imprisonment by the Government of the...
View ArticleBurundi/UN: Rights Commissioner Raises Issue of Extrajudicial Killings
(Oct. 5, 2015) On September 28, 2015, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Raad Al Hussein, commented on an alarming upsurge in arrests, detention and killings in Burundi...
View ArticleItaly: Right to Interpretation and Translation in Criminal Proceedings
(July 29, 2016) On July 29, 2016, new legislation on the right to interpretation and translation services in criminal proceedings entered into effect in Italy. (Legislative Decree No. 129 of June 23,...
View ArticleSweden: Appellate Court Reaffirms Detention in Absentia of Julian Assange
(Oct. 3, 2016) On September 16, 2016, the Swedish appellate court, the Svea Court of Appeal, reaffirmed the detention in absentia of Julian Assange, following a request from Assange to have his...
View ArticleBrazil: Decree Enacted to Regulate Use of Handcuffs
(Oct. 6, 2016) On September 26, 2016, Decree No. 8,858 was enacted to regulate the use of handcuffs in the Brazil. (Decreto No. 8.858 de 26 de Setembro de 2016, PLANALTO.) The decree follows the...
View ArticleAustralia: Police Response to Aboriginal Death in Custody and Ensuing Riot...
(Dec. 9, 2016) On December 5, 2016, the Federal Court of Australia found in favor of an Aboriginal community from Palm Island, Queensland, in a class action case involving claims that officers of the...
View ArticleIsrael: Increase in Prisoners’ Living Space Mandated
(June 30, 2017) On June 13, 2017, Israel’s Supreme Court, sitting as a High Court of Justice, accepted petitions submitted by several associations and ordered the state to increase the personal living...
View ArticleNetherlands: Two New Laws and Decree on Right of Access to a Lawyer
(July 7, 2017) On March 1, 2017, two new laws and a decree, all related to the right of access to a lawyer before and during police questioning of a suspect, entered into force in the Netherlands....
View ArticleIndia: Tripura State Hopes to Follow Assam in Establishing National Register...
(Nov. 5, 2018) The working president of the Congress Party in the Indian state of Tripura, Pradyot Debbarman, filed a petition before India’s Supreme Court on October 24, 2018, requesting that a...
View ArticleChina: Rail Passengers Refusing to Vacate Others’ Seats Punished by...
(Dec. 20, 2018) On December 3, 2018, two rail passengers in China were reportedly punished by administrative detention after refusing to vacate seats booked by others, which may be the harshest...
View ArticleAustralia: Queensland Enacts Historic Human Rights Legislation
(Mar. 6, 2019) On February 27, 2019, the Queensland Parliament passed the Human Rights Bill 2018 (Qld), making it the third jurisdiction in Australia to enshrine human rights protections in such...
View ArticleEngland: Coronavirus Declared “Serious and Imminent Threat” to Public Health;...
(Mar. 3, 2020) On February 10, 2020, the secretary of state for health and social care of the United Kingdom, Matt Hancock, introduced the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020, which enable...
View ArticleFrance: Constitutional Court Finds Arrested Persons Have Constitutional Right...
(Oct. 28, 2020) In a decision of October 2, 2020, the Conseil constitutionnel (Constitutional Council), France’s high court for constitutional questions, found that the absence of judicial recourse for...
View ArticleItaly: New Law Contains Measures on Visas, Territorial Waters, Virtual...
(Jan. 22, 2021) On December 20, 2020, Italy’s government issued Law No. 173 of December 18, 2020, which contains new measures concerning visas, vessels in territorial waters, virtual proceedings in...
View ArticleItaly: Miscellany of Measures Enacted to Fight Covid-19 Pandemic
(Jan. 28, 2021) On October 28, 2020, Italy’s government issued Decree Law No. 137, which introduced additional measures to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. Among the topics these measures address are...
View ArticleMexico: Migration Law Amendment Requires Placing Undocumented Children in...
(Feb. 26, 2021) On January 11, 2021, Mexico enacted an amendment to its Migration Law requiring that undocumented migrant minors be placed in shelters instead of immigration detention centers (as was...
View ArticleNicaragua: Amendment to Code of Criminal Procedure Extends Pretrial...
(Mar. 11, 2021) On February 5, 2021, Law No. 1060, which amends Nicaragua’s Code of Criminal Procedure to extend the previous 48-hour pretrial preventive detention period for suspects, was published in...
View ArticleTurkey: Constitutional Court Censures Lower Court for Not Enforcing...
(Apr. 9, 2021) On January 21, 2020, the Grand Chamber of the Constitutional Court of Turkey issued its decision in the Kadri Enis Berberoglu (3) case, censuring the Istanbul 14. Criminal Court for...
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