The Central Government of India has urged the Delhi High Court to restrain WhatsApp Inc. from implementing its contentious new privacy policy that has drawn criticism from regulatory bodies, digital rights advocates and general citizens alike. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology told the court Friday that WhatsApp’s privacy policy violates the Information Technology Rules [...]

China on Monday blacklisted 10 EU individuals and four entities in retaliation to Brussels’ package of sanctions against Chinese officials over alleged human rights abuses in the western region of Xinjiang. The Chinese government sanctioned Reinhard Bütikofer, chair of the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with China, and Michael Gahler, chair of the European Parliament-Taiwan [...]

Federal prosecutor Michael Sherwin admitted in an interview aired on Sunday that evidence is “trending towards” charging some Capitol rioters with the crime of sedition. According to 18 USC § 2384, seditious conspiracy occurs “if any two or more persons … conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the [...]

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the implementation of personal sanctions on former president Viktor Yanukovych and 26 others on Friday. The sanctions will bar the 27 individuals from accessing assets and property within Ukraine and withdrawing money from Ukrainian bank accounts, among other penalties. Zelenskyy also called on Europe and the UK to impose sanctions. [...]

The European Commission referred the UK to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Friday over failing to recover illegal state aid received by corporations in Gibraltar. In 2012, Spain raised concerns about unfair taxation practices by Gibraltar. The following year, the Commission launched an investigation into the allegations. Shortly afterwards, the UK submitted an [...]

Australia has listed a right-wing group as a terrorist organization for the first time. The move was revealed in a statement released Monday by the country’s Minister for Home Affairs, Peter Dutton. Terrorist organizations are listed under Division 102 of the Criminal Code Act 1995. The country made regulations to list Sonnenkrieg Division (SKD) as [...]

The Council of the European Union imposed sanctions Monday on 11 individuals responsible for the February 1 military coup staged in Myanmar and the subsequent military and police repression against peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators. The restrictive measures, which are an application of the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, comprise a travel ban that prevents those [...]

New Zealand Minister of Corrections Kelvin Davis ordered an overhaul of women’s prisons in the country on Sunday. Davis’ move specifically targets processes, the complaints system and management of female prisoners. The aim is to fulfill the purposes of Hōkai Rangi, a strategy released by the Department of Corrections (DOC) in 2019, which prioritizes wellbeing [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – As time passes and violence against protesters and other civilians increases in the wake of the February 1 Myanmar coup, debate within Myanmar society as to how to move forward has intensified, with young people and some older people at odds. One of the Myanmar law students reporting to us reflects Monday [...]

A jury in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas decided Friday that Apple Inc. must pay $308.5 million to Personalized Media Communications (PMC) for infringing upon a digital rights management patent. PMC is a patent-licensing company which currently has more than 100 issued patents and pending applications. The company only licenses [...]