A New York federal judge rejected former President Trump’s motion to stay his defamation case with author E. Jean Carroll on Friday pending his appeal of the court’s decision to deny his defense of presidential immunity. The case is being overseen by Judge Lewis Kaplan in the US District Court for the Southern District of New [...]

India’s Jharkhand High Court on Thursday released its judgment ordering a new investigation into the killing of a man which took place in the district of Latehar in 2021. The court in its judgment held that the initial police investigation was “hasty” and that it must order a new investigation to stress that “the Rule [...]

Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly Friday declared new sanctions against 15 Russian individuals and three entities following human rights violations and state-sponsored violence faced by political opponents and critics in Russia. The new sanctions aim to supplement the previous sanctions by expanding the list of restricted individuals and entities. Canada has previously imposed [...]

A Pakistan spokesperson announced the arrest of two Christian brothers for blasphemy Friday, according to Reuters. The two were accused of ripping pages from the Quran. Chapter XV of Pakistan’s Penal Code outlines several different forms of blasphemy against Islam. These criminalize conduct such as making derogatory remarks about Muhammad or the desecration of the [...]

An attorney representing political activist Ahmed Douma took to social media Saturday to announce the activist’s release, made possible by a presidential pardon. Douma had endured a decade of incarceration within the confines of Egyptian state penitentiaries. Douma was resentenced to 15 years in prison by the Cairo Criminal Court in 2019 after initially being [...]

In a press briefing published Friday, a UN spokesperson highlighted the human rights issues associated with Haiti’s recent rise in violence. The briefing called for an end to the lynching of local gang members and the vigilante group members who have attempted to reduce gang violence through “self-defence” groups. In the press briefing titled “Haiti: [...]

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. All of them are from CIED (Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho), a student research centre in UNSAAC’s faculty of law dedicated to [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk raised concerns on Friday about the Nigerien military junta’s decision to prosecute President Mohamed Bazoum and others working with him for high treason. Türk expressed worries for people in Niger, calling on the generals who seized power in July to immediately restore constitutional order and democracy. According to [...]

In the summer of 1983, ethnic violence swept the island nation of Sri Lanka. Known as Black July, the outbreak of communal violence between the Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority communities left thousands dead and hundreds missing. Four decades later, the legacy of the violence lives on, searing Sri Lanka‘s social and political landscape. This [...]

In the latest iteration of Russia’s ongoing crackdown on dissent, a Moscow court on Friday ordered the detention of Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of independent election monitoring organization Golos. The organization announced in a statement that the initial detention period was set at two months pending an investigation into charges that Melkonyants organized the activities of [...]