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The trial of four American socialist activists began this week in Florida in a case that echoes the ideological tensions of the Cold War era. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused these individuals of instigating social unrest in the US at the behest of the Kremlin. This case pits allegations of Russian misinformation against [...]

James Joseph is JURIST’s Managing Editor for Long Form Content, and a Ph.D. student at Keele University in the UK.  On August 24, Paris was the venue for an international conference sponsored by Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI), dedicated to confronting one of the darkest episodes in Iran’s history: [...]

Ali Riaz is a political scientist with research interests in South Asian politics, democratization, violent extremism, and Bangladeshi politics. He is a Distinguished Professor of political science at Illinois State University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, and the President of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS). His recent publications include “Pathways [...]

The FBI is currently investigating a cyber-attack on a Trump campaign website, according to an FBI statement to the Associated Press. Trump blamed the attack on the Iranian government but claimed that only publicly available information was compromised. Politico, the Washington Post, and the New York Times reported receiving internal Trump campaign documents from the hack. The material included [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Turkish NGO Freedom of Expression Association (İfade Özgürlüğü Derneği, İFÖD) warned in a statement on Friday that the Turkish government’s blanket blockage of Instagram violates users’ freedom of expression and access to information. The organizations argued that not only is the move a blatant breach of the right to freedom [...]

More protests erupted in major Israeli cities Saturday, reigniting calls for the government to reach a hostage deal with Hamas. The protests were led by nonprofits such as the Hostages and Missing Families Forum as they recognized over 300 days since the hostages were taken on October 7th, 2023. The protesters marched outside the homes [...]

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), an independent and non-profit organization dedicated to education, awareness and documentation of human rights violations in Kurdistan/Iran, released their July report that reflects some cases of human rights violations in Kurdistan and violations of the rights of Kurdish civilians in different regions and cities in Iran. According to the [...]

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei defended a 2020 law which prevented a return to the JCPOA nuclear agreement in a meeting with Iranian members of parliament on Sunday. Sunday’s parliamentary session was also attended by President-elect Masoud Pezeskhian, who is seen as a reformist. Although Pezeskhian had announced that he would work more closely with [...]

Iranian authorities arrested outspoken lawyer Mohsen Borhani for publicly criticizing how the government handled the 2022 protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, Iranian media reported Sunday. Mahsa Amini was a 22-year-old whose arrest in 2022 by Iranian police for allegedly failing to wear her required hijab correctly and subsequent death in custody prompted massive [...]

The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei ordered the country’s judiciary not to refer to Western human rights principles in their decisions, in a Saturday speech during a meeting with the country’s Judiciary Chief and other senior judiciary officials. The Supreme Leader said that the principles are incorrect and described Western countries as hypocritical. The [...]