The US Department of Justice announced Tuesday that former speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives Glen Casada has been sentenced to 36 months of incarceration for honest services wire fraud, money laundering, and using a fictitious name to carry out a fraud, among other crimes. His former chief of staff, Cade Cothren, was also [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday urged Myanmar’s Arakan Army to release local reporter Mu Dra, who was recently abducted by the rebel forces. Shawn Crispin, CPJ’s senior Southeast Asia representative, stressed: “All combatants in Myanmar’s civil war have a responsibility to protect and not target journalists in retaliation for their news reporting.” [...]

US District Judge Rita Lin of the Northern District of California on Monday granted a preliminary injunction and provisional class certification order requiring the Trump administration to restore more than $500 million in federal research funding to individual researchers at the University of California (UC) system schools. The court found the government’s “en masse” terminations, [...]

Abu Bakar Khan is a JURIST staff correspondent and lawyer based in Pakistan. On Friday morning, five sitting judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) walked into the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP)—not to hear cases, but to file one. In an extraordinary and historic move, Justices Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, Babar Sattar, [...]

The Women’s Law Project (WLP) and Philadelphia law firm Berger Montague filed a complaint Tuesday with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, claiming UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh is discriminating against individuals based on sex and disability by unlawfully denying gender-affirming care to patients under 19-years of age. The complaint, filed on behalf of affected minors, [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Monday said reports that citizen journalist and former lawyer Zhang Zhan has been handed a second four-year prison term on the charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” are “deeply disturbing,” calling for her immediate and unconditional release. “This is the second time [...]

Amnesty International released a statement on Monday calling on the Lebanese government to grant the International Criminal Court (ICC) the jurisdiction to investigate potential war crimes in the country during the ongoing conflict between Hezbollah and the Israeli government. It has been one year since the deadliest day in the conflict between the Lebanese-based political [...]

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday urged Chinese authorities to release activist Zhang Yadi (张雅笛), also known as Tara, after she was arrested for creating a digital platform advocating for Tibetan rights in the Chinese language.  Zhang, 22, is a member of the activist group Chinese Youth for Tibet, which aims “to foster a deeper understanding [...]

The US Department of State on Monday announced sanctions against individuals within the support network of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, expanding earlier measures to now target his wife and her company. The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in a press release said that wife Viviane de [...]

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger announced Monday that they will withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing the tribunal of serving “imperial” rather than African interests. The three countries, each governed by military juntas and members of the newly formed Alliance of Sahel States, issued a joint declaration stating that they no longer recognize [...]