Singapore’s Ministry of Law and Ministry of Home Affairs introduced the Criminal Procedure (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2024 into Parliament, aiming to institute new rules for forensic medical examinations (FME) and allowing for the indefinite detention of serious sexual offenders. The bill defines an FMEs as “physical medical examinations, collection of body samples from any body [...]
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Uzbekistan dispatch: new laws come into force with a new year
Farzona Kayumova is a staff correspondent for JURIST in Uzbekistan and a law student at Tashkent State University of Law. 2023 was a year of great legal and political change in the history of the Republic of Uzbekistan. More change is coming in 2024. The following laws will enter into force in Uzbekistan from January [...]
Türkiye prosecutor orders detention of 15 suspected Israel spies
Turkish Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc announced on Friday that the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered the detention of 15 people suspected of spying for Israel. The 15 arrested are part of a larger group of 34 people suspected of espionage. Yilmaz’s announcement says that the 15 suspects were detained following an investigation by the [...]
China introduces list of prohibited actions for officials dealing with Beijing's entrepreneurs
The Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection of Beijing, China on Wednesday rolled out a list with 10 categories of wrongdoings to avoid for government officials who deal with entrepreneurs in the city to give a push to the private sector. China’s private sector contributes to more than 60 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product [...]
EU Court of Justice rules chamber of Poland Supreme Court not an 'impartial' tribunal
The EU’s top court Thursday ruled that a chamber of the Polish Supreme Court, the Extraordinary Review and Public Affairs Chamber, “does not constitute a ‘court or tribunal’ for the purposes of EU law.” The Extraordinary Review Chamber was held to “not have the status of an independent and impartial tribunal” due to the process [...]
Palestinian Statehood and Demilitarization: A Falsifying Conjunction
“For by wise counsel, thou shalt make thy war.” Proverbs 24:6 Though one might think otherwise, there is no Palestinian state at present, nor has there ever been such a state in the past. Still, once the current Gaza War comes to an end – and whatever the tangible correlates of any war termination agreements [...]
Trump seeks to dismiss Georgia election interference charges
Former US President Donald Trump asked a Georgia court on Monday to dismiss the 13 criminal charges against him in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s 2020 presidential election interference case. Trump claimed that, because all of the charges stem from political speech or advocacy, the US Constitution’s First Amendment shields him from criminal responsibility. [...]
US Supreme Court refuses to block Illinois assault rifle ban, again
The US Supreme Court refused to block Illinois’ assault weapon and high-capacity magazine ban on Thursday. This decision comes after the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit allowed the ban to go into effect in November. In a one-page order the Supreme Court stated, “The application for a writ of injunction pending certiorari [...]
Speaking about the several conflicts that presently engulf the world, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated last month that NATO must be able to focus on many challenges at once. This is imperative to promote peace and security in all corners of the globe. International legal institutions, especially the ICC, would do well to embrace [...]
Jews Must Speak Out Against Alabama's Planned Nitrogen-Gassing Executions
A lawyer-turned-death penalty abolitionist and a Jewish cantor join forces for JURIST to argue that the Jewish community has a unique obligation to voice resistance to Alabama’s plans to begin using nitrogen gas as a means of executing death row convicts. In Part 1, Stephen Cooper reflects on his great-grandmother’s death in a Nazi death [...]