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Legal disappearance: China moves to legitimize 'disappearing' of dissidents
WHAT: Amendments proposed for China's criminal procedure law would allow police to secretly detain suspects in major state security and corruption cases. Such confinements can last for six months without detainees' families needing to be notified.
Updated: 08/28/2011 12:13A
Military's errors force most death sentences to be overturned
“Any good criminal justice system worth its salt is constantly looking at how it does business,” said Col. Chuck Pede, who oversees criminal law policy for the Army's Office of the Judge Advocate General. Pede, who has experience as a prosecutor and
Updated: 08/28/2011 12:11A
Rights group flay plan to amend China criminal law
suspects involved in these types of cases if it could hinder their inquiries. “If this proposal does come into law it would essentially legitimise the enforced disappearances,” Joshua Rosenzweig, a Hong Kong-based manager of rights group Dui Hua, said.
Updated: 08/27/2011 11:05P
Supreme Courts in other countries
The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation is the highest court in Russian administrative law, civil law and criminal law cases. It also supervises the work of lower courts. Supreme Court judges are nominated by the President of Russia and appointed
Updated: 08/27/2011 07:47P
Turkey working on new steps to make arbitration system attractive
Bahri ztrk, a professor of criminal law at Dokuz Eyll University, said he is hopeful that HSYK will take important steps to make the arbitration system functional. He stated that without implementing the existing law, drafting a new law would be
Updated: 08/27/2011 07:09P
The Beach Beneath the Street by McKenzie Wark – review
"The criminal produces not only crimes but also criminal law," he wrote, "and with this the professor who lectures on criminal law and… the inevitable compendium in which the same professor throws his lectures on to the general market as 'commodities'.
Updated: 08/27/2011 07:05P
New legislation
a Hong Kong-based manager of rights group Dui Hua, said. Activists are often held for days, weeks or months in secret locations before being released without charge. But some, like rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, are never heard from again.
Updated: 08/27/2011 03:38P
Amendments to China law would legalize secret detentions: activists
“If this proposal does come into law it would essentially legitimize the enforced disappearances that we have been seeing more and more of over the past year or so,” Joshua Rosenzweig, a Hong Kong-based manager of rights group Dui Hua, told AFP.
Updated: 08/27/2011 12:37P
Foreign Ministry Rejects Report of Commission for Human Rights about South
Khartoum,- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has declared its rejection to the 13th regular report which was issued by the Office of the Higher Commission for Human Rights on violations of the International Criminal Law and the International Law in South
Updated: 08/27/2011 11:58A
Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Appoints Sri Srinivasan as Principal
At O'Melveny and Myers, Srinivasan argued multiple cases before the US Supreme Court spanning multiple topics including criminal law and procedure, immigration law, banking law, education law, administrative law and federal contracting law.
Updated: 08/27/2011 11:51A
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