The author of this dispatch is a law graduate and JURIST correspondent in Tehran who must remain anonymous. They are warning us to leave Tehran since they are going to attack the city. Tehran is our homeland and many of us have nowhere else to go. The exit routes of the city are heavily jammed [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday called on Jordanian authorities to reverse a sweeping ban on 12 online news outlets accused of “spreading media poison and attacking Jordan” after they reported that the government profited from humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza. CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa program director Sara Qudah stated: “These [...]
The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. The past weeks have witnessed an unprecedented escalation of the conflict between India and Pakistan in the aftermath of the terrorist killings of tourists on Indian soil in the town of Pahalgam in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). While the near-fratricidal [...]
The US Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge Monday to an appellate court decision that struck down a Minnesota law prohibiting adults aged 18-20 from obtaining a permit to own guns and carry them in public. Second Amendment Foundation founder and executive vice president Alan M. Gottlieb in a statement: “We are cautiously optimistic [...]
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 [...]
