The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student at Maharashtra National Law University in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. On Tuesday, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India (SCI) delivered its judgement in State of Tamil Nadu v. R.N. Ravi (R.N. Ravi), setting yet another precedent in a line of cases limiting [...]
Global executions rose dramatically in 2024, reaching 1,518 recorded deaths across 15 countries — the highest figure since 2015 — Amnesty International said Tuesday as it released its annual report on the use of the death penalty. The 48-page report, “Death Sentences and Executions 2024,” found that Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia were responsible for [...]
A lawsuit challenging the use of a commercial messaging app by members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet to coordinate military strike plans in Yemen was assigned on Wednesday to Judge James Boasberg, the same federal judge whose ruling on Venezuelan deportations to El Salvador recently sparked tensions between the White House and judiciary. The latest [...]
Hungary’s House of National Assembly voted to ban LGBTQI pride marches Tuesday. The law imposes fines on organizers and attendees of pride marches, citing child protection as the justification of the law. The parliament swiftly adopted the bill, one day after it was tabled in the parliament. Following the enactment, a protest took place outside [...]
Siddhi Joshi and Ananya Kohli contributed to this report. South Sudanese authorities arrested 22 political and military personnel in violation of human rights obligations in mid-February, according to a Thursday statement by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The group called on South Sudanese authorities to cease arbitrary detentions of opposition leaders, reveal their whereabouts and ensure that [...]
The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student at Maharashtra National Law University in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. India’s Lok Sabha, or House of the People, is currently in the midst of its Budget Session, with parliamentarians convening to discuss and deliberate policy matters cutting across party lines. Last Tuesday, the government introduced [...]
The administration of US President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to partially lift three nationwide injunctions that have blocked the implementation of an executive order on birthright citizenship, according to court documents filed Thursday. Birthright citizenship is the legal principle that grants automatic US citizenship to nearly anyone born on US soil. Narrow [...]
Daniel Kim, Tyler Li, Drew Meetze and Christine Yang are law students at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. They filed this joint dispatch for JURIST from Ottawa. We attended the courtroom at the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in Ottawa last Tuesday and Wednesday to hear oral arguments in Ahluwalia v Ahluwalia. Cases [...]
Myanmar’s ruling military has extended a state of emergency for another six months, a day ahead of the fourth anniversary of the coup that brought it to power. The move was reported by the state-owned Myawaddy Media on Friday. The military claimed that the extension is necessary to ensure the stability and peace of the [...]
In a move that intensifies the national debate over how race and gender are taught in American schools, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at championing so-called “patriotic education.” Under the auspices of combatting “radical indoctrination” in primary and secondary schools, the order aims to restrict curricular content on the [...]
