The Dutch government said Saturday that around 10 Russian diplomats will have to leave the Netherlands due to their repeated attempts to employ intelligence officers in diplomatic missions. The Netherlands is accusing Moscow of using diplomatic cover for espionage. Additionally, the Dutch cabinet will also close its consulate general in St. Petersburg, foreign minister Wopke Hoekstra [...]

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, US Vice President Kamala Harris Saturday said that the US has formally determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine. Joining annual forum for academics, governments, and diplomats to debate pressing challenges to international security, Harris reaffirmed US support for Ukraine. She stated: In the case of [...]

Commissioner Paul Rouleau of the Public Order Emergency Commission Friday released a report determining that the Canadian federal government’s usage of unprecedented emergency powers under the Emergency Powers Act to end the “Freedom Convoy” trucker protest that effectively occupied Canada’s capital for two weeks in February 2022 was justified. The report, however, states that the emergency powers [...]

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. Here Apoorv Vats, a second-year student at NALSAR University of Law, files from Hyderabad. India’s Supreme Court Friday turned down the names proposed by the Union government in a sealed cover for the constitution of a panel to strengthen regulatory measures and [...]

The Indian Income Tax Department Friday said that they uncovered irregularities in the BBC’s accounting books following a search of the broadcaster’s offices. In a statement, the tax authority said that a survey action was carried out across the broadcaster’s Delhi and Mumbai offices which found “several discrepancies and inconsistencies” regarding the company’s tax declarations. [...]

Oksana Bidnenko is a staff correspondent for JURIST in Norway. She is a law student at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Riga, Latvia, and is currently an exchange student at the University of Oslo.  On Monday the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) published its 2023 threat assessment. The PST describes several threats to [...]

Canadian law students are reporting for JURIST on national and international developments in and affecting Canada. Mélanie Cantin is JURIST’s Chief Correspondent for Canada and a 2L at the University of Ottawa. Last weekend two flying objects entered Canadian airspace, with one being shot down Saturday while flying over the Yukon territory, and the other [...]

The five former Memphis police officers implicated in the death of Tyre Nichols Friday pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and various other crimes. The pleas came during the officers’ first court appearance on charges of second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official suppression and official misconduct in relation to Nichols’ beating and death. During [...]

In November 2022, a petition was filed before the Supreme Court of India to allow legal recognition of marriages between same-sex couples under the Special Marriage Act, 1954 (“SMA”). The petitioner in Supriyo @ Supriya Chakraborty v. Union of India (“Supriyo”) has been in a committed relationship for ten years and is living with his [...]

Amnesty International Friday reported that members of the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group killed at least 20 men and raped “scores of women” in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The report states the M23 rebel group, which the DRC and UN allege is backed by Rwanda, is responsible for “indiscriminate attacks [...]