Anjana Meza, JURIST’s staff correspondent at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima, forwards this eyewitness account of recent protests in Arequipa from a law student at the Universidad del Pacífico who was visiting southern Peru earlier this month when Peru’s Congress removed President Pedro Castillo, who had attempted to unconstitutionally dissolve the legislature. [...]
Law students and young lawyers in Iran are reporting for JURIST on protests and related developments in Iran since the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. Here, a correspondent in Tehran talks about her experience after a recent protest. For security and privacy reasons, we are withholding the name of our correspondent. This report has [...]
Law students and young lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, one of our correspondents in Kabul speaks of a wave of resignations of Afghan university professors after Taliban women were officially barred from higher education on Tuesday. For privacy and security reasons, we are [...]
Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul reports on the Taliban closure of Afghan universities to women. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our Correspondent’s name. The text has only been lightly edited [...]
Twitter early Saturday lifted bans against several journalists covering Twitter owner Elon Musk whose accounts had been banned Thursday for alleged “doxxing”, but it maintained restrictions on the Twitter account of VOA Chief National Correspondent and JURIST Journalist in Residence Steve Herman. Account suspensions for journalists from the Washington Post, CNN, the New York Times [...]
Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. Last week, on 9th December, a Member of Parliament from the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) introduced a private member bill on India’s Uniform Civil Code [...]
Sharareh Abdolhoseinzadeh is a PhD in Political Sociology and a political researcher in Tehran. Saturday was International Human Rights Day, but the situation in Iran is extremely anti-human. Serious decisions and executions of youths arrested in protests have started, and thousands of detainees live in limbo. Iran is sad. Everyone is shocked. People came to [...]
Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul reports on the inadequacy of current international aid to address the country’s dire economic situation and growing impoverishment. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our Correspondent’s [...]
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and pertaining to their country. University of London law graduate Seemal Hameed files this dispatch from Islamabad. Climate change is an existential threat to life on earth. The past eight years are on track to be the warmest on record, fuelled [...]
Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul reports on a Taliban execution order carried out Wednesday in southwestern Afghanistan. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our Correspondent’s name. The text has only been [...]
