A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and its parent company over an article linking him to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, ruling that Trump failed to adequately allege the newspaper acted with “actual malice” when it published the story. US District Judge Darrin P. Gayles [...]

A groundbreaking resolution passed by the United Nations General Assembly has classified the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity, sparking renewed global dialogue on reparations and the lasting consequences of historical slavery. Spearheaded by Ghana and the African Union, the resolution emphasizes the critical need to confront past injustices and their continued [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors violates the First Amendment when applied to counselors who use only talk therapy, a landmark decision with sweeping implications for how states regulate speech by licensed health care professionals. The court voted 8-1 to reverse a lower court ruling that had [...]

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC), are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. All of them are from Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho (CIED), a research center in UNSAAC’s Faculty of Law dedicated to spreading legal information [...]

A recent discussion among legal and human rights experts has exposed the alarming scale of obstetric violence in Africa, a crisis that contributes to the continent’s disproportionately high maternal mortality rates. The findings, shared during a virtual panel, underscore the urgent need for systemic reforms in maternal healthcare. This dispatch was co-authored by Divyabharthi Baradhan [...]

Hong Kong media tycoon and Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai will not appeal his national security conviction or the accompanying 20-year prison sentence, according to one of his lawyers and a Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) report on Friday. Lai was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment last month for two counts of conspiring to collude [...]

The Hong Kong Court of Appeal quashed the fraud convictions against Apple Daily newspaper founder Jimmy Lai Chee-ying and its administrative director, Wong Wai Keung, on Thursday. The appellate court rejected the findings of District Judge Stanley Chan, who convicted Lai and Wong of fraud in 2022. Judge Chan found that Lai operated a consultancy firm, in [...]

The Hong Kong Court of First Instance sentenced media tycoon and Apple Daily newspaper founder Jimmy Lai to 20 years imprisonment on Monday following his conviction in December on “national security” charges. This marks the latest development in a years-long legal battle, and the heaviest sentence since the instatement of the 2020 National Security Law. Lai was [...]

Cuban authorities are escalating surveillance and harassment of families of political prisoners while denying adequate medical care to jailed dissidents, Amnesty International said Monday. The human rights organization reported that relatives of prisoners of conscience face police cordons around their homes, movement restrictions, and threats, and that these actions are occurring in the absence of [...]

Houthi authorities in Yemen have arbitrarily detained more than 20 Christians over the past three months in what Human Rights Watch (HRW) characterizes as a campaign of enforced disappearances targeting the religious minority. The detentions began in late November and early December 2025, with an expansion on December 24, Christmas Eve, according to HRW interviews [...]