The family of Danish Siddiqui, an Indian photojournalist killed in a Taliban attack in Afghanistan in July 2021, filed a petition Tuesday before the International Criminal Court (ICC) against several high-level Taliban leaders and commanders. Reuters had placed Siddiqui with the Afghan Special Forces in Spin Boldak district in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan. Several [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom Tuesday signed the Abortion Accessibility Act, SB 245, to ensure cost is not a barrier to accessing care by eliminating out-of-pocket costs for abortion services. California requires health insurance companies to cover abortions, but cost-sharing requirements, such as co-pays and deductibles, add expenses to abortions. The legislation prohibits health plans and [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a law student in Kabul reports on a surprise Taliban announcement that Afghan schools above the sixth grade would continue to be closed to girls, just as they were scheduled to reopen for them. He [...]

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faced her final day of questioning at her confirmation hearing Wednesday. Thursday will conclude the confirmation hearings with testimony from the American Bar Association and witnesses. The Senate Judiciary Committee will then vote on whether Jackson’s nomination will go to the full Senate for consideration. Jackson continued to answer questions Wednesday [...]

The US Supreme Court Wednesday reversed a decision by Wisconsin’s Supreme Court selecting state legislative districts drawn by the governor while also allowing the use of the governor’s congressional district map. The 2020 census revealed population shifts that necessitated redrawing Wisconsin’s election maps. The Republican-dominated legislature proposed new maps, which were vetoed by Democratic Governor [...]

Russian state-owned news agency TASS Tuesday reported that a court found dissident Alexey Navalny guilty of fraud and contempt of court and sentenced him to nine years in prison. Navalny is a lawyer and longtime Russian opposition leader who survived an assassination attempt in August 2020. Russian authorities are widely believed to have organized the [...]

The Russian Supreme Court Tuesday affirmed the dissolution of human rights NGO Memorial International, Russian state news agency TASS reported. According to TASS, Memorial International is recognized as a foreign agent NGO and has been fined for violating Russian laws on foreign agents. The European Court of Human Rights called for Russian General Prosecutor Igor [...]

A group of Jamaicans are demanding reparations for slavery from England. British Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge Kate are set to have a three-day visit to Jamaica. The visit, to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee (70th anniversary) of the Queen’s coronation, will officially begin Wednesday and end on Thursday. This visit is also during [...]

On the second day of confirmation hearings Tuesday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faced questions from members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee. Tuesday’s hearings started off with Senator Dick Durbin asking Jackson about her judicial philosophy and how she decides cases. Jackson shared a three-step process she follows while deciding any case. When a case [...]

A federal judge Tuesday found Cowboys for Trump founder Couy Griffin guilty of trespassing on US Capitol grounds during last year’s January 6 Capitol violence. The second defendant to go on trial on charges stemming from the riot, Griffin was convicted on a charge of entering a restricted area and acquitted of disorderly and disruptive [...]