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The US State Department confirmed in a press conference on Monday that David Lin, an American pastor the US alleges was wrongfully detained since 2009, has been released. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller stated that Lin returned to the US for the first time in almost 20 years upon his release from prison in China. [...]

Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspected gunman in an assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump, appeared in a Florida federal courtroom Monday. Routh is facing several federal gun crimes including possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. The apparent attempted assassination took place while [...]

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s recent decision to revoke the plea agreements for three defendants in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo, including alleged mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), was at once shocking and predictable: shocking that the Defense Secretary would step in deus ex machina at the eleventh hour to scuttle a deal negotiated by the [...]

James Joseph is JURIST’s Managing Editor for Long Form Content, and a Ph.D. student at Keele University in the UK.  On August 24, Paris was the venue for an international conference sponsored by Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI), dedicated to confronting one of the darkest episodes in Iran’s history: [...]

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced Tuesday that it has opened criminal cases against at least seven Western journalists who illegally crossed the state border of the Russian Federation near Sudzha in the Kursk region. The FSB stated that the journalists were charged with violating Part 3 of Article 322 of the Criminal Code of [...]

The Supreme Tribunal of Venezuela (TSJ) ratified Nicolás Maduro as President of Venezuela this Thursday amid a series of criticisms regarding its impartiality, thereby validating the results issued by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which declared him the winner of the presidential elections for the constitutional term 2025-2031. In a live hearing, nearly a month [...]

Far-right movements gaining popularity in many European countries are primarily anti-immigrant and anti-Islam. This study examines Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a far-right political party in Germany. Founded in 2013, the party launched the AfD manifesto, a public document approved at its Federal Party Congress held in Stuttgart from April 30 to May 1 2016. Presently, [...]

The ongoing conflicts in Ethiopia have laid bare the country’s deep-seated divisions and the devastating toll of unchecked violence on civilian populations. From the Tigray region to the Amhara and Oromia areas, the people of Ethiopia have endured unimaginable suffering, with atrocities committed by all sides in flagrant violation of international law. At the heart of this [...]

Media platform X (formerly Twitter) announced on Saturday the closure of its operations in Brazil following what it called “censorship orders” by Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. The platform noted that there is uncertainty in ensuring the safety of its employees following what it described as increasing threats from Moraes, including the possible [...]

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed a lawsuit Monday against US Attorney General Merrick Garland  and other officials alleging two Palestinian individuals were wrongly placed on a terrorism watchlist. The lawsuit claims that the plaintiffs were placed on the list due to their “work and activism opposing Israel’s ongoing military attacks.” The suit outlines [...]