JURIST Deputy News Managing Editor Lou Kettering | U. Pittsburgh School of Law contributed to this report. The US and the UK introduced new sanctions on Wednesday against Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and individuals linked to both groups. This comes as the UK’s second round of October 7 attack-related sanctions and the US’s fourth. The [...]
Several UK LGBTQIA+ and military organizations published a letter Monday to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak demanding the government address its commitment to discuss reparations owed to LGBTQIA+ veterans, days after the UK government announced that the planned debate in the House of Commons regarding the issue will no longer be going ahead. Previous Defence Minister, [...]
The UK’s Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) released a report Wednesday warning the government that their strategy to improve the lives of disabled people in the UK was inadequate. They described the strategy as “un-coordinated” and urged the government to rethink their plans into a longer-term, more organized approach. The National Disability Strategy, published in [...]
Germany’s civic space was rated as “narrow” in a new report from global rights watchdog CIVICUS Monitor. Germany was one of seven countries downgraded in the People Under Attack 2023 report, which analysed how governments protect citizens’ freedom of expression in 198 countries. The report found that over 30 percent of the world’s population now [...]
Ukrainian officials accused Russia Sunday of committing war crimes following the release of a video allegedly showing armed Russian soldiers shooting two unarmed Ukrainian soldiers, leading to the launching of an investigation by Ukrainian prosecutors. JURIST has reviewed the video footage, but out of respect for the victim and their families, we will not link [...]
The Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court held Thursday that the German Government violated federal climate change law by failing to reach annual targets. The ruling now means the government must implement changes to achieve these unmet goals. The court found that the groups were successful in their claims. It held that the government had failed to [...]
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, was denied an open court trial Tuesday following threats to his life. Due to these safety concerns, the planned open trial regarding Khan’s alleged actions of leaking state secrets did not go ahead. Khan was indicted with leaking state secrets in late October alongside Vice Chairman of the [...]
The UK Supreme Court held Tuesday that Deliveroo riders were not entitled to form a union and collectively bargain with Deliveroo for better working conditions due to a lack of employment relationship. This case was an appeal from an original ruling by the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) in 2017. Deliveroo riders wanted the Independent Workers [...]
A record number of convictions were made on Monday in Italy’s largest trial of people linked to the ‘Ndrangheta criminal organization. The trial lasted over three years and resulted in the sentencing of more than 200 of the over 300 people accused. The “Rinascita Scott” trial began in a court in the Italian town of [...]
The mother of a teenage boy who was fatally shot by the French police held a protest on Sunday against the release of the officer who killed her son. The officer was released from custody but remains under supervision as the case is further investigated. Nahel Merzouk was 17 when he was shot and killed [...]
