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A federal court sentenced a West Virginia man, Hardy Carroll Lloyd, to 78 months in prison on Wednesday for obstructing the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooting trial. The sentencing includes the possibility of supervised release after three years. Lloyd previously admitted to intentionally interfering in the federal hate crimes trial for Robert Bowers, who shot [...]

Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike from her Tehran prison cell Monday, protesting the Iranian authorities’ alleged negligence towards sick inmates and the criminalization of women who refuse to wear the hijab. The 51-year-old is currently serving multiple prison sentences in Tehran’s Evin Prison, amounting to [...]

Muslim and Jewish civil rights groups reported on Wednesday a spike in the number of Islamophobic and antisemitic incidents in the United States since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7. The Council on Islamic Relations (CAIR) reported 774 complaints and bias incidents across the US since the onset of the war, including [...]

Civil action and criminal prosecution are the two great substitutes invented by law to replace revenge, a deeply wired instinct among humans expressed in a Mesopotamian maxim, an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. In Pakistan, most ironically, civil litigation and criminal prosecution have become the revenge instrument, particularly among ruling elites fighting [...]

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Center on Extremism Wednesday released an annual report detailing the incidents and ideologies of extremist-related murders. According to the report, “Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2022,” while the total number of people killed by extremists decreased from 33 in 2021, it is the first time since 2012 that [...]

Last month, Indonesia made headlines by passing a new criminal code known as the Rivisi Kitab Undang-undang Hukum Pidana (RKUHP). The code includes a number of controversial provisions, including outlawing acts such as defaming the president and expressing views antithetical to state ideology. However, the provision that has received the most attention is the criminalization [...]

Justin Lindsay is a US national staff correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He served 10 years as an Officer in the United States Army. The US-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a report last week identifying hundreds of American law enforcement, military, and state-level elected officials as [...]

The Bandung High Court Monday sentenced a teacher, Herry Wirawan, to death for raping 13 students at an Islamic boarding school. The victims were between 12 and 16 years old. It was further found that he impregnated at least eight of the victims. The Bandung District Court had earlier sentenced him to life imprisonment, but [...]

“I tell you that I still consider myself to be an Indian. For the moment I have accepted the Governor-Generalship of Pakistan. But I am looking forward to a time when I would return to India and take my place as a citizen of my country.” – Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Dec 1947 Karachi) Indians have [...]

In a referendum held on Friday, October 26, 2018, the people of Ireland voted to amend the Irish Constitution to remove the word blasphemy from Article 40.6.1, which declared that “he publication or utterance of blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter is an offence which shall be punishable in accordance with law.” This constitutional amendment enables [...]