The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales convicted Sahayb Abu on Friday for attempting to carry out a terrorist attack after he created pro-Islamic state music videos and purchased weaponry online. The police first began investigating Abu last March when his “extremist mindset” drew their attention. Throughout the next few months, Abu “purchased a [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students filing for JURIST in Myanmar reported a record number of civilian fatalities from police and military action against unarmed civilians Sunday as the UN and various Western embassies and diplomats were reduced to issuing yet more toothless condemnations. The civilian death toll in Myanmar’s largest city was especially severe, with [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students reporting for JURIST in Myanmar said at least 10 more people were killed across the country Saturday as police and soldiers fired on protesters in multiple locations. In Mandalay, at least six people were killed when a peaceful protest there was broken up. A female householder was killed for protecting [...]

The European Parliament Wednesday adopted a legislative initiative report calling on the European Commission to create a “binding EU law that ensures companies are held accountable and liable when they harm—or contribute to harming—human rights, the environment, and good governance.” Despite the global nature of many European companies’ operations, there are currently no EU-wide laws [...]

The Department of Justice (DoJ) and Audrey Strauss, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced Thursday that Zurich’s oldest private bank, Rahn+Bodmer (R+B), admitted to aiding US taxpayers evade their US tax obligations and defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), by hiding hundreds of millions of dollars in offshore bank accounts. US [...]

UN human rights experts condemned Wednesday several “large-scale” human rights violations in Venezuela that “amount to crimes against humanity.” The United Nations Human Rights Council initiated a fact-finding mission in Venezuela on September 27, 2019, to investigate “patterns of violations, directly and indirectly, affecting all human rights.” Marta Valiñas, the chairperson of the fact-finding mission, presented [...]

The Malaysian government enacted Thursday an anti-fake-news law that aims to counter Covid-19 misinformation. The Malaysian King (Yang di-Pertuan Agong) has declared a state of emergency for the country, lasting until August. The law was enacted through an executive authority by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, which does not require any Parliamentary procedures. The law is [...]

Russia is slowing down the speed of Twitter in retaliation for what it described as a failure to remove banned content, according to a press release on Wednesday. Russia’s Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media) referred to what it said was illegal content on Twitter containing child pornography, information [...]

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority announced Thursday that it would comply with a Peshawar High Court order to ban the social media video-sharing app TikTok by directing internet service providers to block access. Chief Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan banned the platform because it violated Pakistan’s constitutional provision ensuring the upkeep of citizens’ social and moral welfare, according to [...]

Scottish lawmakers proposed a bill Friday that would incorporate four UN human rights treaties into Scottish law, offering children greater human rights protections in domestic courts. The bill is set to undergo parliamentary elections and would include the following UN conventions: the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESC), the Convention on the Elimination [...]