Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior announced Monday that the Pakistani police have released all 290 Baloch activists that were arrested while attempting to protest forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings last week in Islamabad. Around 200 Baloch activists traveled 1,600 kilometers from Balochistan, Pakistan to Islamabad. They attempted to protest the death of Balaach Mola Bakhsh, who [...]
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HRW calls on India to investigate state-sponsored assassination allegations
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called for an investigation into allegations that the Indian government was involved in assassination plots in the US and Canada on Friday. In September, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested there was a “potential link” between the government of India and the killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Nijjar was [...]
Ukraine sources claim responsibility for assassination of former MP
Ukrainian authorities appeared to claim credit for the assassination of Illia Kyva, a former presidential candidate and member of the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament), near Moscow on Wednesday. Andriy Yusov, spokesman for the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Service, appeared to confirm the killing in a video, stating that Kyva was “one of the biggest scumbags, [...]
Baroness Helena Kennedy of the Shaws, KC, is one of the UK’s most established lawyers, a bencher at Gray’s Inn and a member of the House of Lords. Kennedy is also a broadcaster, journalist and lecturer. She has not only acted in many of the most prominent cases of the last decade but has promoted civil [...]
The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Appeals Chamber heard arguments on Tuesday over whether the court may resume its investigation into human rights abuses in Venezuela. Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, and Canada referred Venezuela for investigation to the ICC in 2018. The referring states alleged the Maduro government committed crimes against humanity, performed arbitrary arrests and [...]
Ethiopia rights commission reports civilian killings in Amhara region
The Ethiopia Human Rights Commission (EHRC) issued a report condemning the killing of numerous civilians by drone strikes and house to house searches in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. The Monday report documented several incidents of extrajudicial killings, injuries, displacement and property destruction by the government security forces and state militia. The report stated that [...]
Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. Last Thursday, September 21st, India formally designated Canada as an international refuge for terrorism, characterizing it as a “sanctuary harbouring terrorists, extremists, and organized criminal elements,” [...]
Human rights organizations call for release of 2 Bangladesh human rights activists
A group of 72 human rights organizations called for the immediate and unconditional release of Adilur Rahman Khan, Secretary of the Bangladeshi human rights organization Odhikar, and ASM Nasiruddin Elan, Odhikar’s director, in a joint appeal on Thursday. Both men were convicted on charges of disseminating false information and sentenced to two years in prison. [...]
Amnesty International on Thursday called for the application of universal jurisdiction against members of the Taliban accused of crimes under international law. Universal jurisdiction in this case would give any country the ability to prosecute Taliban members for violations of international law. Amnesty International said on the platform X (Twitter), “The new UNAMA report demonstrates an [...]
Pakistan dispatch: Jaranwala vandalism attacks spotlight controversial blasphemy laws
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Izhar Ahmed Khan is a 2022 LL.B. graduate of the Pakistan College of Law (University of London International Program). He files this from Lahore. Last week Pakistan witnessed yet another tragic incident in which an [...]