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The UK Ministry of Justice announced plans to reform Imprisonment for Public Protection (“IPP”) sentences. IPP sentences, originally intended to prevent offenders considered “dangerous” from being released despite their offense not warranting a life sentence, have not been used since 2012. However, many still have ongoing IPP sentences today, leaving them in prison indefinitely or [...]

Kenyan law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Kenya. Aynsley Genga is JURIST’s Senior Correspondent in Kenya, and Griffins Ogada is a Staff Correspondent. Both of them are students at the University of Nairobi School of Law. They file this dispatch from Nairobi. Haiti is a country rich in natural [...]

The German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development confirmed to German public broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) last week that four local Afghan employees of the German government aid organization Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) office in Afghanistan have been arrested by the Taliban-backed Afghan government. According to a confidential EU security report obtained by WDR [...]

“The Safety of the People shall be the Highest Law.” Cicero Eschatology is about certain end-of-life expectations, about “last or final judgments, about death, about God’s judgment and the human “soul.” But what possible connections could link such metaphysical or religious expectations with Israel’s current struggle against jihadist terror? Are there any pertinent legal connections? [...]

Hong Kong Coroner’s Court ruled the death of a homeless man while in the custody of the Correctional Services Department (CSD) to be a case of suicide on Friday. Five jurors unanimously found the deceased committed suicide. According to the forensic report, the deceased “intermittently strangled himself with his trousers.” The causes of death are [...]

Thousands marched in Mexico City on Monday to protest the death of Jesús Ociel Baena, a prominent LGBTQ+ activist and also Mexico’s first non-binary magistrate. Baena was found dead, along with their partner, on Monday morning. According to state prosecutor Jesús Figueroa Ortega, there was no evidence of a third party entering their house, and [...]

Last month, Pakistan’s caretaker government issued an ultimatum to all undocumented immigrants, including some 1.73 Afghan nationals: leave the country voluntarily, or face expulsion. The deadline was Nov. 1. Since the announcement, over 86,000 undocumented Afghan nationals, including women and children have returned to their country, presumably to avoid arrest. Pakistan, a country that hosts [...]

Hong Kong’s District Court on Monday sentenced four former student leaders of the University of Hong Kong’s student union to two years in prison over incitement to wound with intent, according to the Hong Kong Free Press. The four former student leaders—Kinson Cheung, Chris Todorovski, Charles Kwok and Anthony Yung—pleaded guilty to the charge on [...]

Last month, the self-declared independent republic of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) lowered its flag, opting to dissolve all state institutions following a months-long blockade by Azerbaijani forces that brought about an acute humanitarian crisis among its predominantly ethnic Armenian population. The republic’s demise was the culmination of decades of tension and periods of conflict between Azerbaijan [...]

A report released by Spanish Ombudsman Ángel Gabilondo on Friday found that priests within the Catholic Church have abused more than 1 in every 200 Spaniards. The report was presented to the Spanish Parliament on Friday and aimed to ensure that the perpetrators are held responsible and accountable for their actions. The ombudsman also sought [...]