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Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday signed into law an amnesty measure that interim authorities say is intended to ease political tensions and accelerate the release of political prisoners. The law, titled the Amnesty Bill for Democratic Coexistence, authorizes a “general and full” amnesty for people prosecuted or convicted for political or related offences. [...]

Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is expected to appear in a Manhattan federal courtroom on Monday to face US charges of leading a 25-year conspiracy to traffic cocaine into the United States in partnership with designated terrorist organizations. An indictment filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York charges Maduro and [...]

US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that the US would “run” Venezuela, following a Pentagon raid on the country that led to the capture and transfer to the US of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores. Trump made the remarks during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Wednesday highlighting the devastation caused by illegal cattle ranching in the Brazilian rainforest, and especially its impact on Indigenous peoples in the state of Pará. The organization called on the federal government to remove the cattle ranches and restore affected communities. It also urged JBS, the world’s largest [...]

Ahead of the Speak Up for Justice panel, JURIST Associate Editorial Director Alanah Vargas spoke with Judge Eleazar Javier Saldivia, a former Venezuelan Supreme Court judge now living in exile, about the meaning of upholding the rule of law in a time marked by political repression, disinformation, and fear. He shared his firsthand experience of [...]

Judges, lawyers, law students like myself, and legal advocates from across the United States and beyond attended a virtual event on Thursday entitled “Global Threats to the Justice System: A Warning to America”. The event was organized by Speak Up for Justice, a growing nationwide initiative launched by LA-based attorney and event host, Paul R. [...]

A Peruvian court on Tuesday sentenced former President Ollanta Humala and his wife, Nadine Heredia, to 15 years in prison and nearly 3 million dollars in civil reparation for aggravated money laundering. The couple was found guilty of accepting illicit contributions in the same amount to finance Humala’s presidential campaigns. A court in Lima, the [...]

The Venezuelan government arrested opposition leader María Corina Machado on Thursday during an anti-government protest in Caracas. This incident occurred just one day before President Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration for a third term. According to Machado’s team, security forces “violently intercepted” her as she attempted to leave the rally in Chacao, with government troops firing upon [...]

A coalition of environmental, human rights, and indigenous groups has called on the EU to designate Malaysia’s Sarawak state as “high risk” under its new anti-deforestation law. This comes as the EU prepares to implement the Deforestation-Free Products Regulation (EUDR) in January 2025, which aims to curb imports linked to deforestation and human rights abuses. [...]

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in or affecting Perú. All of them are from CIED (Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho, a student research center in UNSAAC’s faculty of law dedicated to spreading legal information [...]