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A US District Court in Brooklyn ruled to allow the government’s sweeping 16‑count indictment against Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. to move forward on Tuesday, rejecting the Chinese telecommunications firm’s motion to dismiss 13 out of 16 federal charges. US District Judge Ann Donnelly issued a 52‑page order on Monday ruling that the allegations, which include [...]

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday signed into law a parliamentary bill passed last week that suspends cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations nuclear watchdog. The “Law on obligating the government to suspend cooperation with the IAEA,” was passed during a parliamentary session and garnered the overwhelming support of the [...]

Darina Boykova is a 2L at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. Last week she attended the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, on assignment for JURIST. This is the second part of a two-part report. The first part of her report is here. The arrival of the leaders on the first day of the [...]

US-Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear sites raise serious questions of international law under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT, or Treaty). While these attacks may be evaluated under the UN Charter and other international treaties, customary laws, and principles, this commentary focuses on their implications for the NPT regime, which serves as a cornerstone of global [...]

US President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that American planes targeted and bombed three Iranian nuclear sites, declaring that “now is the time for peace.” Warplanes struck nuclear sites at Fordow, Nantaz, and Esfahan, with a “full payload” of bombs dropped at the primary target in Fordow. Trump said that the planes then evacuated Iranian [...]

At the 59th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, the UK released on Tuesday a joint statement for the Interactive Dialogue with the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including East Jerusalem (OPTs). The statement condemned human suffering in Gaza and opposed the Israeli government’s escalating military action. UK Ambassador for [...]

The European Union (EU) on Wednesday announced that it has lifted economic sanctions on Syria after the toppling of the repressive Assad regime, in an effort to revive the country’s economy. The EU’s decision to lift all of the restrictive measures includes the removal of 24 entities from the list of those subject to the [...]

Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI) on Friday urged the United Nations to prevent the Iranian government’s rising campaign of politically motivated killings. More than 300 global personalities supported the plea, including UN experts, Nobel laureates, former ambassadors, judges, legal scholars, and human rights organizations. The coalition condemned Iran’s systematic [...]

JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief editor of LeftWord Books, and author of forty books including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World and The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World. In this interview, Prashad delves [...]

The British Palestine Committee is accusing the UK of failure to uphold international law through its continued military support to Israel in a report published Wednesday. The report criticized what it calls British “military collaboration with Israel,” highlighting the UK’s complicity in Israel’s human rights violations. The British Military Collaboration Report outlined that the UK [...]