Australian war crimes whistleblower David McBride pleaded guilty on Friday to three charges of stealing and unlawfully sharing military information. In a statement outside the courtroom, McBride’s lawyer Kieran Pender, Senior Lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre said: There is no public interest in prosecuting whistleblowers, and certainly no public interest in sending them [...]

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The International Centre for Justice for Palestinians’ (ICJP) Canadian legal working group on Thursday issued Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, Minister of National Revenue Marie-Claude Bibeau and Minister of Justice and Arif Virani with a notice of intention to seek the prosecution of Canadian politicians if they are complicit in alleged Israeli [...]

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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised emergency legislation and a new treaty with Rwanda Wednesday to ensure his flagship asylum policy of sending UK asylum-seekers to Rwanda is not blocked again after the Supreme Court ruled it unlawful Tuesday. In a thread on the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), Sunak said he [...]

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Armenia officially became the 124th State Party to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday after Ambassador Mher Margaryan deposited Armenia’s accession documents in a ceremony held at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, where Margaryan presented the instrument of ratification to the Director of the Treaty Section. This ceremony is the conclusion of [...]

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The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka declared Tuesday that several former politicians, including former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa, breached the public trust and violated Article 12 (1) of the Sri Lankan Constitution in their management of the economy. The bench ruled by a majority of [...]

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James Joseph is JURIST’s UK Senior Editor and a Ph.D. student at King’s College London. In a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Tuesday, former Home Secretary Suella Braverman launched a withering attack on the PM’s ability to uphold law and order, presenting the most pressing challenge to his premiership to date. This comes off [...]

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A group of Turkish mothers whose children were forcibly disappeared in the 1980s and 90s held a public vigil in Istanbul without police interference Saturday. This marks the first time the “Saturday Mothers” group has been allowed to proceed with such an event since police dispersed one of their demonstrations in 2018. The group’s vigils [...]

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On Tuesday His Majesty King Charles III took part in The State Opening of Parliament,  a ceremonial event that marks the formal beginning of a new parliamentary session. It is a significant constitutional event in the United Kingdom, involving the monarch, Members of Parliament, and other dignitaries. During the State Opening, the reigning monarch delivers [...]

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a bill that withdraws Russia as a signatory to the global nuclear test ban treaty. The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is an international treaty aimed at banning all nuclear explosions on the Earth’s surface, in the atmosphere, underwater and underground. It was adopted by the United [...]

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Pakistani authorities began detaining undocumented foreign persons in the country on Wednesday, most of whom had come over the border from Afghanistan. This comes amid growing fear and concern for Afghans faced with the life or death decision of being sent back to Afghanistan and into the hands of Taliban authorities. In a statement, Pakistan’s [...]

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