NEW DELHI, India – India’s Supreme Court observed that a referendum comparable to Brexit is not possible in the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir. The court was considering petitions against the repeal of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, which had granted special status to the disputed region. The provision was struck down...
ANKARA (AA): India’s top court, which is hearing petitions challenging legislation that stripped Jammu and Kashmir of its special status, has ruled out a Brexit-like referendum on the scrapping of Article 370, saying “opinion of people on public issues is sought through established institutions,” the Press Trust of India (PTI...
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio voters have rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to amend the state constitution. Known as “Issue 1,” the measure would have raised the hurdle for passing future amendments to the state constitution from 50% to 60% of voters. The outcome of the special election was ...
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): A Senegalese judge on Monday placed French-Spanish lawyer Juan Branco, who was indicted a day earlier, under judicial supervision ahead of his expulsion to France, his lawyer and a senior justice ministry official told AFP. Branco, who is one of the lawyers defending the Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko, was...
Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP): Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s lawyers are attempting to launch legal challenges against his three year-sentence for graft that has ruled him out of contesting national elections. The former international cricket star was arrested at his home on Saturday and taken to jail for corruption charges he ...
JACKSON, Mississippi – A federal appeals court has ruled unconstitutional a Mississippi state law that permanently disenfranchises people with certain criminal records. The law was passed in 1890 by white lawmakers during the Jim Crow era and was used to disenfranchise Black voters. The court ruled that the law violates the Eighth Amendm...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA): On the fourth anniversary of India’s revocation of the special status of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the mainstream political leaders in the region called it a “disempowering day for the people of the region.” People’s Conference President Sajad Lone said that the belittling of institutions, individuals and th...
ANKARA (AA): Denmark is studying several measures and legislation to prevent the recurrence of Quran burning incidents, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said Friday. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Rasmussen affirmed this in a phone call with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said in a statement. Rasmu...
NEW DELHI (AA): India’s Supreme Court on Friday stayed the conviction of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case, paving the way for his return to parliament and contesting national elections next year. Gandhi was sentenced to two years in prison and disqualified in March in a case by a lawmaker from the […]
ANKARA (AA): The top Indian court on Thursday continued hearing the case challenging the Indian government’s 2019 decision to scrap the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, with petitioners questioning the role of the parliament which abrogated the special status. As the second-day hearing began in the morning, senior Advocate Kapil Siba...
