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Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Jacky-Long Mouthuy is a law student at Maastricht University. He files this dispatch from Maastricht, Netherlands.  Yesterday, November 2, was the UN’s International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. Ahead [...]

Editors’ note: Amid surging violence between Hamas and Israeli forces, JURIST is seeking perspectives from law students, law professors and lawyers around the world. Neither this nor other commentaries constitute JURIST editorial policy, nor do they necessarily reflect the opinions of the editorial team. On Friday, October 27, at its tenth emergency special session, the [...]

The Tehran Revolutionary Court in Iran sentenced two female journalists who covered the Mahsa Amini protests in 2022 to prison Sunday, according to Mizan News Agency, the judiciary’s media agency. The journalists, Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, were charged with collaboration with the US government as well as acting against national security. Mohammadi received six [...]

A Delhi Sessions Court observed on Wednesday that continuous seizure of editors’ and journalists’ electronic devices not only causes ‘undue hardship’ to them but “impinges upon their fundamental right of freedom of profession and speech,” according to The Wire.  This comes in light of the Delhi Police’s seizure of The Wire’s electronic devices, which had [...]

Israeli Communications Minister Schloma Karhi announced Friday that Israel’s government approved regulations that give them powers to suspend the broadcasting of foreign news organizations during states of emergency. These powers will allow the government to suspend outlets, such as Al Jazeera, from operating during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war if the government believes they threaten national [...]

Amnesty International appealed to Guinea’s government on Thursday to drop charges against 13 reporters who participated in peaceful demonstrations on October 16. The journalists had been taking part in protests to advocate for the easing of limitations placed on accessing various news websites within the country. Following the demonstrations, they were apprehended by police, charged [...]

US-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva was arrested in Russia Wednesday for failing to register as a “foreign agent.” Kurmasheva, a reporter for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), holds dual citizenship in Russia and the United States. According to a statement from RFE/RL, Kurmasheva traveled to Russia in May for a family emergency. When she tried to [...]

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) High Court in Kinshasa-Gombe turned down a request to release journalist Stanis Bujakera from detention on Tuesday. According to Jeune Afrique Magazine and AFP, Bujakera’s legal team repeatedly sought his release after he was detained in September. They also petitioned the court to grant them more time to [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ),  Reporters Without Borders (RSF)  and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) released statements Monday alleging that the death toll among journalists since Israel and Hamas began hostilities has climbed to between 10 and 12, with several missing and 20 injured. It is difficult to confirm the exact number of killed [...]

An Israeli airstrike on Friday resulted in the death of Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and wounded six others, prompting a UN spokesperson to call for an investigation into the strike. Abdallah, a videographer for Reuters, was covering Israeli activity in southern Lebanon when an Israeli anti-tank shell landed near where Abdallah was. Two other Reuters journalists, [...]