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Kagusthan Ariaratnam, a former child soldier turned defense analyst, speaks with JURIST about his new memoir “Spy Tiger: The 05 File.” The book, co-written with Michael Bramadat-Willcock, details Ariaratnam’s experiences during the Sri Lankan civil war (1983-2009). Forcibly recruited by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a youth, Ariaratnam later became an informant [...]

Over 130 refugees from Myanmar have been on a hunger strike at the Matia Transit Camp in Assam, India since Monday, according to a Thursday Facebook post from Rohingya rights activist Sabber Kyaw Min. The strike highlights the group’s demands for release from indefinite detention and resettlement under the care of the United Nations High [...]

Three journalist organizations filed a complaint against German authorities with the country’s Federal Constitutional Court, local media reported on Wednesday. The complaint concerns investigators’ wiretapping of phone calls between journalists and climate activists. This constitutional complaint follows two previous verdicts issued by Munich’s District Court and Munich’s Regional Court. The three associations that filed the [...]

The Court of The Hague issued its ruling on Monday in the case of two Pakistani individuals who had called on the public to assassinate Dutch politician Geert Wilders. The court delivered its ruling just a week after the Public Prosecutor’s Office announced plans to prosecute the two Pakistani nationals, a 56-year-old religious leader and [...]

Dutch prosecutors announced their intent on Monday to seek prison sentences of up to 14 years for two Pakistani nationals accused of inciting threats on the life of prominent far-right politician Geert Wilders. The case is currently being tried in absentia, in the absence of the accused or a lawyer representing them. The Public Prosecutor’s [...]

Mykyta Vorobiov, Senior Editor for Long Form Content at JURIST, is a Ukrainian-born political analyst, journalist, and political science student at Bard College, Berlin. On a sunny Wednesday evening earlier this month, one of the most famous Russian opposition leaders, Ilya Yashin, who was locked in a Russian jail after April 2022 for his anti-war position, [...]

Far-right movements gaining popularity in many European countries are primarily anti-immigrant and anti-Islam. This study examines Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), a far-right political party in Germany. Founded in 2013, the party launched the AfD manifesto, a public document approved at its Federal Party Congress held in Stuttgart from April 30 to May 1 2016. Presently, [...]

The leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the Bundestag, Thorsten Frei, told a local newsroom Monday that he opposes the implementation of a ban on discrimination based on sexual identity through a constitutional amendment. This statement is a reaction to the bill (Drucksache 19/13123) presented by the parliamentary groups FDP, Die Linke, and [...]

In his first official statement regarding the recent civil unrest in Bangladesh, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan confirmed on Sunday that at least 147 people have died during the violent clashes sparked by student protests over government job quotas. This announcement follows weeks of nationwide turmoil, marking the deadliest unrest in the country in over a [...]

“An intentional act of injustice is an injury. A Nation has therefore the right to punish it…. This right to resist injustice is derived from the right of self-protection.” Emmerich de Vattel, The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law 1758) Israel’s law-based conflict with Hezbollah and Hamas terrorism is grounded in the [...]