Bangladesh Law Minister Anisul Huq announced at a press conference on Thursday that the government would allow stakeholders to submit their opinions on a newly released draft version of the Cyber Security Act (CSA) 2023. The announcement comes just days after the draft was preliminarily approved to replace Bangladesh’s Digital Security Act (DSA) by a [...]
Angolan authorities have unjustly killed more than 12 people since January, in addition to perpetrating other severe human rights violations, according to a recent report from Human Rights Watch (HRW). The human rights organization accused Angola’s police of cracking down on political dissent in the country, resulting in killings and arbitrary arrests. In their Monday [...]
Five people were killed amidst a protest and labor strike by taxi drivers in South Africa over new vehicle impoundment regulations. The strike officially ended Thursday. The protests and strike arose over a new municipal traffic law in Cape Town that stipulates that vehicles will be impounded for violations including unlicensed vehicles and drivers, passengers [...]
The upper house of the Indian Parliament, the Rajya Sabha, passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 Wednesday amidst significant protest from the opposition. Earlier versions of the bill were considered in 2019 and 2022, but both were eventually withdrawn. The current version of the bill was introduced on August 5th, despite concerns from [...]
Canadian news publishers and broadcasters represented by News Media Canada, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters and CBC/Radio-Canada filed an application with the Competition Bureau of Canada Tuesday requesting an investigation into Meta’s conduct relating to the implementation of the Online News Act. The complaint centers around Meta’s recent decision to block news content from its [...]
Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Soumyabrata Chakraborty, a second-year law student at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Last Friday, 4 August 2023, the Supreme Court of India (SCI) refused to stay a “scientific survey” by the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) [...]
The UK Electoral Commission said Tuesday that it fell victim to a cyberattack and that “hostile actors” were able to access copies of the electoral register, with the name and address of anyone registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. The Electoral Commission’s Chief Executive Sean McNally apologized to people whose information was hacked, saying [...]
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Rabia Shuja holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from Griffith College, Dublin and is Chief Correspondent for JURIST in Pakistan. She reports from Islamabad. This past Saturday, Pakistan’s former Prime Minister and Pakistan [...]
In a 5-to-4 vote, the US Supreme Court granted a request on Tuesday to temporarily stay a ruling by the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas that vacated a rule regarding “ghost guns” from the Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). “Ghost guns” are weapons parts kits that can be [...]
Two teachers’ unions joined six professors in Idaho to bring a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the No Public Funds for Abortion Act (NPFAA), an Idaho law that prohibits the use of public funds to provide, promote, or counsel in favor of abortion. According to a press release from the plaintiffs’ counsel the American [...]
