Indian authorities registered a formal complaint—known as a first information report (FIR)—against an election engagement movement led by India’s main opposition party and its organizer, according to the Press Trust of India’s police sources. The Thursday FIR alleged that the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra movement and its organizer, K B Byju, deviated from the march’s [...]

Unknown assailants abducted Khayal Ahmad Kastro, former Punjab provincial minister and election candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), outside a local court in Pakistan Friday where he sought bail for a May 9 case according to video released by PTI. The video appears to show several men, including one man with a rifle, put Khayal in [...]

The Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s office confirmed Friday to Swiss media outlet Keystone-SDA that a criminal complaint against Israeli President Isaac Herzog has been filed. The announcement came during the week long annual World Economic Forum 2024 (WEF) held in Davos, Switzerland, which President Herzog attended. Swiss authorities are not providing further information on the group who [...]

JURIST Assistant Editor Fiona Tsamny | U. Ottawa Faculty of Law, CA also contributed to this report. Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, voted 382 to 234 to approve legislation Friday aimed at streamlining the path to citizenship for immigrants by abolishing long standing restrictions on holding dual nationalities. The law, championed by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s [...]

In a press conference Sri Lanka’s Public Security Minister Tiran Alles, one of twelve members of Parliament’s Select Committee to deal with the “drug menace,” vowed to continue the controversial anti drug campaign Yukthiya amid human rights concerns. The campaign was announced in early December 2023 via press conference. In a message directed to the [...]

Three opposition candidates in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) December presidential election, Martin Fayulu, Moise Katumbi and Floribert Anzuluni, called for a protest Saturday, when President Felix Tshisekedi is to be sworn in for a second term, in a joint video press conference. The December election was marred by allegations of fraud, logistical shortcomings and disruptions. [...]

A group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advocates and NGOS expressed deep concerns Friday about the mistreatment of children in youth prisons in an open letter to the Victorian government. The advocates called out the Victorian Government’s failure to meet Australia’s obligations to implement safeguards expressed in the UN’s the Optional Protocol to the [...]

A Czech appeals court has ruled that Prague can extradite to the United States an Indian man accused by the US of involvement in an unsuccessful plot to kill a Sikh separatist on American soil, according to the Czech news website Seznam Zprávy. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced their indictment of Nikhil Gupta, [...]

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of India filed a First Information Report (FIR) against the NGO Environics Trust (ET) and its top officials for allegedly violating the provisions of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), 2010. As per the FIR , ET allegedly transferred money for disaster relief to address the aftermath of Super Cyclonic [...]

The EU Delegation to Kyrgyzstan expressed concern Thursday over Kyrgyz authorities’ recent clampdown on journalists and media offices operating in the country. The delegation specifically mentioned the recent spike in detentions of journalists and the searching and confiscation of property belonging to independent media offices. The statement by the EU delegation, along with the embassies [...]