UK’s Minister of State for Development and Africa Andrew Mitchel said he was “appalled” by human rights violations committed in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and called upon Eritrean forces to leave the country in response to a question from independent peer Lord Alton of Liverpool. The letter comes over half a year after the formal cessation [...]

Former South African president Jacob Zuma was reportedly released from prison on Friday after incumbent South African president Cyril Ramaphosa approved a remission (i.e. early release) of non-violent offenders. Zuma was sentenced to 15 months prison in July 2021 for refusing to testify before a panel that investigated financial corruption and cronyism under his presidency. [...]

James Joseph is JURIST’s UK Senior Editor, and was recently accepted as a Ph.D. student in the King’s College London Department of War Studies, where he will study law and the responsibility to protect.  In a press release issued by The Law Society Friday it was announced that “Solicitors wishing to celebrate their hard work [...]

ProPublica released a report Thursday revealing new details about Clarence Thomas’ history of accepting lavish gifts while serving as a US Supreme Court Justice. According to the report, Thomas failed to disclose millions of dollars worth of gifts from several multi-millionaires who shared his conservative views. The report specifically names H. Wayne Huzienga, David Sokol, [...]

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School.  On August 8, in its so-called “monsoon session”, the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of the Indian parliament) passed the National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) [...]

Pakistan’s Islamabad High Court rejected on Wednesday an appeal from former Prime Minister Imran Khan to suspend his conviction on corruption charges. Khan was found guilty and sentenced in an Islamabad trial court to three years prison and a fine of 100,000 PKR for making false declarations about his assets to the Election Commission of [...]

Rhissa Ag Boula, a former rebel leader and politician in Niger, launched a movement called the Council of Resistance for the Republic (CRR) on Wednesday to oppose the junta that took power in the country after the July 26 coup. The new movement aims to restore former President Mohamed Bazoum to power.  CRR marks the [...]

Former US President Donald Trump and his aide Waltine Nauta entered not-guilty pleas on new criminal charges in their federal classified documents case on Thursday in a Florida courtroom. Trump pleaded not guilty to three new charges and Nauta pleaded not guilty to an additional charge. The third co-defendant added to the case by federal [...]

The Hong Kong Police Force arrested four men and six women on Thursday for suspected “conspiracy to collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security” and inciting riot. Police investigation revealed that the arrested persons were connected with the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund (612 Fund). Since September 2021, the national [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk concluded his visit to Iraq on Wednesday, and warned that Iraq’s water crisis may cause wider regional implications that require actions from all countries to manage water resources as a global public good. His visit marked the first time a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights visited [...]