The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik and a television outlet he controls, Alternativna Televizija d.o.o. Banja Luka (ATV). The sanctions came Wednesday after executive order 14033 ordered the United States Department of the Treasury (USDT) and other departments to take action against [...]

The UK Home Office announced plans Wednesday to establish a new Scientific Advisory Committee for developing a scientific method for evaluating the age of asylum seekers. The Home Office states that this method will prevent adult asylum seekers from posing as children to obtain support and benefits fraudulently. Discussing the program further, Home Secretary Priti [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday renewed a lawsuit against twenty-one medical equipment and pharmaceutical companies over allegations that their contracts with Iraq’s health ministry aided in funding terrorism that ultimately led to the death of American soldiers during the Iraq War. AstraZeneca, GE Healthcare USA Holding, Johnson [...]

A restricted committee of France’s National Commission for Information and Liberty (CNIL) held Google and Facebook Ireland, the headquarters for Facebook’s activities in Europe, liable in separate judgments Thursday for violating the French Data Protection Act (DPA) since the processes by which users can reject cookies on these sites is significantly more complex than that [...]

With the COVID-19 Omicron variant now surging in India just as campaigning for elections in various Indian states is set to begin, India Chief Correspondent Neelabh Bist asks whether the country’s judiciary will once again step up to check the permissive executive branch of government in order to minimize the social impact of the pandemic. [...]

Lousiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced Wednesday that he was signing a posthumous pardon for Homer A. Plessy, the plaintiff in the landmark 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson. Plessy was arrested in 1892 for deliberately violating Louisiana’s Separate Car Act of 1890, which required “separate but equal” train car accommodations for Blacks and whites. His [...]

Kazakh President Kasym-Jomart Tokayev on Wednesday called participants in the fuel-price protests that have swept the Central Asian nation this week “terrorists,” accusing them of attempting to undermine their country at the behest of foreign powers, and ultimately asked Russia and the other members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to come to Kazakhstan’s [...]

The Seoul Administrative Court ruled Tuesday that private education facilities like cram schools, public study rooms and study cafes should be exempt from South Korea’s COVID-19 vaccine pass requirements. According to Yonhap News Agency, parents and owners of private education institutes claim that the mandate violates unvaccinated students’ right to learn. The Court agreed that [...]

Activision Publishing, the owner and publisher of the popular online multiplayer Call of Duty video game series (COD) Tuesday sued German business EngineOwning for selling malicious cheats and hacks enabling players to manipulate the COD games. It alleges that EngineOwning has made more than hundreds of thousands of US dollars from the sale and distribution [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul comments on the country’s banking crisis, currently complicated by international restrictions and sanctions. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our Correspondent’s name. The text has been [...]