A Metropolitan of the Moscow-affiliated Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC-MP) was sentenced to three years in prison Friday after pleading guilty before a Ukrainian court to “violating the equality of citizens.” The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said that Metropolitan Iosaf, also known as Petro Huben, distributed pro-Krelmin Russian literature that questioned Ukrainian sovereignty in coordination [...]

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The US Supreme Court unanimously held Thursday that a transgender migrant may appeal a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) decision that denied her relief from deportation. The court reversed the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s ruling that it did not have jurisdiction over Estrella Santos-Zacaria’s request for judicial review. Santos-Zacaria petitioned the [...]

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ProPublica Thursday reported that US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose that conservative donor Harlan Crow’s holding company paid thousands of dollars in tuition for Thomas’s great-nephew, whom Thomas was raising “as a son.” The nonprofit news organization obtained a bank statement showing that Crowe made a $6,200 payment, or one month’s tuition, to [...]

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released their 2023 Press Freedom Index and accompanying report Wednesday, noting that the rise of artificial intelligence, “fake content” and authoritarianism endanger journalistic integrity and expression around the world. As in past years, the organization says that most countries have “problematic,” “difficult” or “very serious” press freedom situations. RSF has also [...]

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The Government of Canada’s Treasury Board and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) Monday announced that they have reached a tentative agreement for more than 120,000 public service workers to end their strike and return to work. However, around 35,000 employees of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) are to remain on strike as Canadian [...]

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The Iranian Supreme Court Wednesday upheld the death sentence of German-Iranian dissident Jamshid Sharmahd. Supreme Court spokesman Masoud Satayshi announced the decision at a press conference, adding that “enforcement actions will be taken subsequently.” Sharmahd was sentenced to death in February for afsad-i fil arz, or “corruption on earth,” which is a broad category of [...]

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A top International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegate Friday said that inmates held by the US at Guantanamo Bay Detention Center are experiencing “symptoms of accelerated .” Patrick Hamilton, the head of the ICRC’s US and Canada delegation, visited Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in March and says that the inmates’ symptoms are consistent with [...]

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William Hibbitts is JURIST’s Deputy Editorial Director. He files this report from Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Yesterday, March 30, the Mass Casualty Commission investigating the 2020 Nova Scotia spree shooting released its final report, marking the culmination of a prolonged investigation into Canada’s worst mass shooting and the RCMP’s ignominious response to it. In a country where [...]

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Moldovan police Sunday arrested 54 people during an anti-government protest in the capital city of Chișinău hours after police announced the arrests of seven people linked to a Russian-backed plot to destabilize the country. According to Viorel Cernăuțeanu, the head of Moldova’s General Police Inspectorate (IGP), the plot included incidents of “destabilization and mass disorder” [...]

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Canadian Supreme Court Puisne Justice Russell Brown Friday released a statement denying wrongdoing after the Canadian Judicial Council announced that it was reviewing a complaint against the Justice. Chief Justice Richard Wagner, after a conversation with Brown, placed him on leave from the court on February 1 as a result of the investigation. The US [...]

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