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Indian authorities registered a formal complaint—known as a first information report (FIR)—against an election engagement movement led by India’s main opposition party and its organizer, according to the Press Trust of India’s police sources. The Thursday FIR alleged that the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra movement and its organizer, K B Byju, deviated from the march’s [...]

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The Indian Supreme Court halted Tuesday a survey of the Shahi Eidgah mosque for search of the alleged presence of Hindu relics. The Shahi Eidgah mosque is claimed to be built on the birthplace of the Hindu god Krishna, similar to the claim of the Babri Masjid mosque as the Hindu god Ram’s birthplace. The [...]

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Members from the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), the ruling conservative party in India, staged a protest Wednesday in India’s  Karnataka state over the arrest of a Karnataka resident for his suspected involvement in the controversial post-Babri Mosque demolition riots in 1992. The protests were called by the Karnataka BJP chief BY Vijayendra in the aftermath of [...]

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Several Rohingya refugees in Sri Lanka protested outside the UN refugee agency’s office this week due to the announced closure of its Sri Lanka office at the end of 2024. The refugees also submitted an appeal to UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday, calling for the agency not to abandon them without arranging [...]

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Representative George Santos is the third member of the House of Representatives since the Civil War to be expelled and the first in United States history to be removed before being convicted by the Judiciary. It is significant to recognize that how it internally operates and disciplines its members, including expulsion, is beyond the general [...]

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In this first-of-its-kind JURIST “global dispatch” on a single topic, 15 law students and young lawyers from around the world, all of them JURIST correspondents from outside of Israel and Palestine, join together to offer a  panoramic view of how the current Gaza conflict is unfolding in their countries and regions. Beyond the headlines, they [...]

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President Joe Biden has repeatedly characterized the state of world affairs as a battle between democracies and autocracies, with America leading the coalition championing the democratic cause. According to the United States, this coalition aims to show the world that government of the people, by the people and for the people is the best model, [...]

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday that the construction of a planned oil pipeline project in Uganda has devastated the lives of thousands of people, with farmers’ land being acquired through pressure and “inadequate” compensation. The East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline, the fossil fuel project that is currently under construction, will link western Uganda [...]

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