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The National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) of Romania announced Thursday the initiation of a criminal investigation into a high-profile case involving the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines targeting three individuals, including former Prime Minister Florin Cîțu and former Ministers of Health Vlad Voiculescu and Ioana Mihăilă, for alleged crimes of abuse of office. In a press release, [...]

Police squads in Alentejo, southern Portugal, raided farms and arrested 28 people Tuesday on suspicion of human trafficking and labor exploitation. In a press release, Portugal’s Judicial Police said the effort, called “Operation Mirror,” involved 480 operatives in collaboration with prosecutors from the Évora region and the Portuguese airforce. It is believed that the suspects [...]

On October 7th, 2023, the State of Israel was brutally attacked by the terrorist organization known as Hamas, instigating an all-out war. In the early morning of October 7th, Hamas terrorist fighters made their way into Israel from the Gaza Strip, invading and occupying Israeli towns, cities, and military bases. This surprise attack in Israel [...]

In a nearly five-hour long hearing on Wednesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) heard a landmark case brought by six youth plaintiffs against 33 European governments to spur stronger climate change mitigation measures. Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Others featured six plaintiffs from Portugal: Catarina, 23, Cláudia, 24, Martim, 20, [...]

The UN Committee against Torture issued findings on New Zealand, Romania, Spain and Switzerland on Friday in its latest session. The overarching “theme” of the session was the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, which was used as a benchmark (as well as previous state reports) to identify if the four member states incorporated this [...]

The UK High Court ruled on Thursday that Secretary of State for the Home Department Suella Braverman must not exercise her new powers to restrict protection and support of victims of modern slavery without first considering the risks of re-trafficking. As a result of the ruling, potential victims of modern slavery who are facing trial [...]

The Ohrid Agreement, officially known as the Agreement on the Path to Normalization between Kosovo and Serbia, was verbally accepted by the Serbian President and Kosovar Prime Minister in March 2023, symbolizing the most significant advance in negotiations between the two nations in years. A report by the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies (The Kosovar [...]

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention released a report alleging that Afghanistan, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Thailand, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the US all participated in human rights violations against Abd al-Rahim Hussein al-Nashiri, a man accused of assisting in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000. Al-Nashiri is currently held in [...]

European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found Tuesday that Romania violated the European Convention on Human Rights article 8’s right to respect for private and family life because of the “absence of any form of legal recognition and protection for same-sex couples.” The case, Buhuceanu and Others v. Romania arose when Romania rejected the application [...]

Mykyta Vorobiov is a student at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. He is currently in Zagreb, Croatia.  As a Ukrainian correspondent for JURIST now studying at the University of Zagreb, I have observed many differences and similarities between the Balkans and Eastern Europe. The region’s political life has fascinated me since I arrived, and [...]