Chinese officials on Monday condemned the US seizure of oil tankers headed from Venezuelan ports, calling the acts a “serious violation of international law.” “Venezuela has the right to independently develop mutually beneficial cooperation with other countries,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a press conference. Jian stated that China opposes unilateral enforcement of [...]

This dispatch was co-authored by Divyabharthi Baradhan (JURIST Staff, Malaysia) and Sarisha Harikrishna (Queen’s University Belfast School of Law, United Kingdom). In a landmark ruling, the Permanent People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan (the Tribunal) on December 11 in the Hague, Netherlands, found that the Taliban de facto authorities have committed crimes against humanity under [...]

UN officials warned on Monday that the war in Sudan is reaching a deadlier phase as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) gain territories in the Kordofan region. During several briefings at the 10,077th meeting of the UN Security Council, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Khaled Khiari confirmed the alarming humanitarian situation in Sudan as the [...]

The state of judicial independence in Romania has come into the spotlight following one of the biggest corruption scandals in the country’s history and two weeks of mass protests in Bucharest calling for judicial reform, with tens of thousands taking to the streets. Why are Romanians taking to the streets? The demonstrations were sparked by [...]

Editor’s note: This is Day 8 of JURIST’s coverage of Mangione’s suppression hearings. Read Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4. Luigi Mangione is accused of fatally shooting Brian Thompson, CEO of medical insurance company UnitedHealthcare, on December 4, 2024, outside a Manhattan hotel. He faces a nine-count indictment including second-degree murder, where [...]

US President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he will appoint a special envoy for Greenland, prompting responses from Denmark and Greenland leaders, expressing worry over potential US expansionist aims and threats to territorial integrity. The move is unusual, as Greenland is not an independent country but an autonomous territory of Denmark. Trump made the unexpected [...]

Italy’s Competition Authority (AGCM) announced on Monday that it has fined the Apple corporation €98.6 million ($116 million) for imposing unfair conditions on third-party app developers through the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy. This decision centers on Apple’s requirement, beginning in April 2021, that developers display an ATT consent prompt before tracking user data across [...]

UN experts warned that a recently approved bill in Peru that eliminates the concept of gender from legislation and public policy frameworks could significantly undermine the country’s human rights protections and violate its international legal obligations. According to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the bill removes references to gender from Peru’s [...]

The Supreme Court, in its shadow docket order in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, stayed a district court ruling that had temporarily barred federal immigration agents in the Los Angeles area from conducting roving patrol stops based upon a handful of proxy factors—including “peaking Spanish or English with an accent.” A separate concurrence by Justice Brett [...]

The People’s National Assembly, the lower house of Algeria’ parliament, began debating a draft law on Saturday seeking to criminalize French colonization. This legislative move is a step in advancing the Algiers Declaration, which was adopted following a conference on colonialism held on November 30 and December 1. This law focuses on French colonial rule [...]