UN experts warned on Wednesday that El Salvador is misusing Interpol law enforcement mechanisms to further its political agenda by issuing red notices against two Salvadoran human rights defenders in exile. The experts say that the charges and red notices against Ivania Cruz and Rudy Joya, who are in exile in Spain, “appear to be [...]
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday issued a proclamation on Tuesday designating both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as “foreign terrorist organizations” and “transnational criminal organizations” under Texas law. The executive action invokes authority under the Texas Penal Code and Texas Property Code, subjecting both organizations to heightened criminal penalties [...]
President Donald Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law Wednesday, one day after the Senate passed the legislation by unanimous consent, requiring the Department of Justice to publicly release all unclassified records related to Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days. The House on Tuesday had voted 427 to 1 to pass the bill. Hours [...]
Abu Bakar Khan is a JURIST staff correspondent and a lawyer based in Pakistan. On November 13, the 27th Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan completed a legislative journey that lasted less than a week. Introduced in the Senate on November 10 and approved the same day, the amendment passed through the National Assembly with [...]
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the social technology company Meta does not hold a monopoly in the “personal social networking” (PSN) market, in the antitrust case Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms, Inc. Meta will therefore not have to divest its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. Chief Judge James E. Boasberg of the US [...]
Amnesty International called on Tuesday for the immediate and unconditional release of two former members of parliament in the southern African nation of Eswatini, Mthandeni Dube and Bacede Mabuza. The statement comes in response to news of a conditional royal pardon granted earlier this month to MP Dube, resulting in his supervised release. “Mthandeni Dube’s [...]
UNICEF condemned on Tuesday the armed attack on a Government Girls School in the Maga community of Kebbi State in Nigeria, which led to the death of the vice principal and the abduction of 25 students. In a statement, UNICEF urged: “Students, education facilities, and their personnel should be protected under international law from any [...]
A tribunal in Dhaka on Monday sentenced former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her interior minister to death for their role in suppressing student uprisings in July and August 2024. She resigned and fled to India shortly after the protests, and the trial took place in absentia. The former interior minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal [...]
A federal court ruled Tuesday that Texas’s new congressional map, which created five additional seats for Republicans, is illegal on the basis of racial gerrymandering. The US District Court for the Western District of Texas found that the Texas legislature’s intent in redrawing the congressional map was predominantly based on race. According to the court, [...]
A South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs subcommittee on Tuesday held an hours-long public hearing on legislation that would significantly expand abortion restrictions in the state. The bill remains stalled in committee following the hearing, with no vote to advance it to the full Senate. Senate Bill 323, titled the “Unborn Child Protection Act”, would make [...]
