Pakistan has escalated its crackdown on political dissent, according to a report published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday. The group urged the authorities to release protesters who participated in peaceful protest, respect their rights to fair trial, and comply with international human rights standards when responding to violence. The HRW report highlights the increasing [...]

The Moscow City Court sentenced US citizen Stephen Hubbard to six years and 10 months in prison on Monday after he was convicted of participating as a mercenary for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) against the Russian military. Hubbard was charged under a section in the Russian Criminal Code that involves mercenary participation. A [...]

Rigathi Gachagua, Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya, faced an impeachment hearing Wednesday morning after the country’s National Assembly passed a motion for his removal. The motion for proposed removal was made Tuesday, alleging that Gachagua violated multiple articles of the Kenyan Constitution, the Penal Code, and several Acts. It also listed multiple accusations [...]

A joint media report led Dutch prosecutors to consider a criminal case based on concerns that senior Israeli intelligence officials have interfered with an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into alleged crimes in occupied Palestine, The Guardian confirmed on Tuesday. The Guardian, +972 Magazine and Local Call jointly investigated what they allege are nine years of [...]

In a speech delivered from the Counter Terrorism Operations Centre (CTOC) in London on Tuesday, MI5 director general Ken McCallum warned that the UK is facing the most complex and interconnected threat environment it has ever seen. McCallum highlighted the ongoing threats from terrorism, as well as efforts by autocratic states to harm the UK’s [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Tuesday that attempts to bar two Syrian migrants from reaching Cyprian territory and their subsequent expulsion violated multiple provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights. The judges unanimously found violations of Article 3 prohibiting torture and degrading treatment; Article 3 of the additional Protocol 4, [...]

Bolivia formally filed a Declaration of Intervention at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the ongoing South Africa v. Israel case concerning the application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Bolivia invoked Article 63 of the ICJ Statute, which gives states [...]

The Viasna Human Rights Centre in Belarus reported on Monday that the prison term of Yuras Zyankovich, a Belarusian American lawyer, has been extended by two years, bringing his sentence to a total of 13 and a half years, amid Belarus’ ongoing suppression of political opposition. Zyankovich was detained and arrested in Moscow on April [...]

Ernesa Shala is a JURIST staff correspondent in Kosovo and a recent graduate of the University of Pristina Faculty of Law.   The much-anticipated trial of the individuals accused of orchestrating the 2023 terrorist attack in Banjska, in which poice Sergeant Afrim Bunjaku was killed, commenced on Wednesday at the Basic Court in Pristina. Defendants Blagoje [...]