The Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a civil writ petition against Dr Farooq Abdullah, a Member of the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) from the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference party and a former Chief Minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir. The petition had made a plea for terminating the [...]

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice found a man guilty of murder on Wednesday for driving a van into a crowd in Toronto, killing 10 and injuring 16 people. The court refused to name the man, calling him John Doe instead, because he committed the act of violence in order to achieve fame. Thus the [...]

Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Marc Garneau requested formal negotiations Thursday with the UN General Assembly to hold the Assad regime accountable for its atrocities in the 2011 Syrian civil war. The negotiations would be held on the grounds of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT). [...]

International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced Wednesday that her office has launched an investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes committed in Palestinian territories since June 2014. Bensouda’s announcement follows the December 2019 conclusion of the preliminary examination into the situation in Palestine, following Palestine’s referral of the situation to the ICC, which confirmed [...]

A group of nearly 80 democratic members of congress sent a letter to President Joe Biden Tuesday urging him to reverse the Trump administration’s policies toward Cuba. The letter set forth the specific restrictions that the Biden administration should reverse, including both donative remittances and remittances sent by Cuban-Americans to their families. The Trump administration [...]

The Cuban government has passed a long-awaited animal welfare law after decades of ignoring citizens’ demands for animal rights legislation. The Animal Welfare Bill requires state agencies and animal welfare organizations to uphold duties concerning animal physical and mental health while prohibiting all forms of animal abuse, which carries fines up to 7,000 pesos. These [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Monday that they have filed a criminal complaint in Germany accusing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other top officials of committing crimes against humanity. The allegations arise from the killing of columnist Jamal Khashoggi and the detention of 34 other journalists in Saudi Arabia. The Paris-based media advocacy [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Estimates of the number of protesters killed by police Wednesday in Myanmar surged through the day as protesters and their supporters assessed casualties to opponents of the Myanmar military coup after police and soldiers opened fire and violently broke up multiple marches and strikes across the country. Initial estimates early afternoon local [...]

More than 300 demonstrators took to the streets of Dhaka on Monday to protest the death of a writer and commentator in prison, who had been charged under Bangladesh’s controversial Digital Security Act (DSA). The deceased, Mushtaq Ahmed, had been arrested last May after posting comments on social media in which he criticized the government’s [...]

Le Tribunal correctionnel de Paris a déclaré ce lundi l’ancien président français Nicolas Sarkozy coupable d’avoir tenté de corrompre un juge et trafic d’influence lorsqu’il était en fonction dans l’affaire dite « des écoutes ». Sarkozy a été condamné à trois ans de prison, dont deux avec sursis. Le parquet national financier (« PNF ») avait accusé [...]