Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Rishabh Yadav, a postgraduate law student at the University of Delhi, and Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. Last Monday, the 10th of October, the Indian Supreme Court Collegium published a Resolution [...]
Jihene Ferchichi is JURIST’s staff correspondent in Tunisia. She reports from Tunis. It is not unusual for a country like Tunisia to witness increased propagation of fake news and rumors, considering the deteriorating socio-economic situation the country has been experiencing the past few years. In this context, the State has deemed it necessary to intervene [...]
French building materials manufacturer Lafarge and its Syrian subsidiary Tuesday pleaded guilty in a New York federal court to conspiring to provide material in support of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and the al-Nusrah Front (ANF). Both ISIS and ANF are designated foreign terrorist organizations in the US. Lafarge must pay a [...]
In late August, Pakistani publisher and human rights activist Faheem Baloch was detained by unidentified plain-clothes law enforcement officers in his Karachi bookshop and ushered away. A native of the Balochistan region of Pakistan, the publisher is known to be a dedicated cultural advocate, heading up a publishing house specializing in Balochi literature, and serving [...]
Yael Iosilevich is a law student in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and JURIST’s Staff Correspondent in Israel. Last Wednesday, the final version of an Israel-Lebanon maritime border agreement was published. This deal comes at the end of a decade-long US-brokered effort to finally bring to an end the maritime dispute [...]
The High Court (HCt) of Delhi Tuesday denied bail to student-activist Umar Khalid. Justice Siddharth Mridul and Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar dismissed the application and held that it has no merit. The court questioned Khalid’s “obnoxious, hateful, offensive” speech and his use of the terms Inquilabli Salam (revolutionary salute) and Krantikari Istiqbal (revolutionary welcome). Justice Bhatnagar [...]
North Carolina reproductive rights groups Monday filed a motion seeking to temporarily enjoin a ban on advanced healthcare professionals providing medication abortions. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective requested the temporary injunction amid increased appointment volume from patients traveling to North Carolina from states with full or partial abortion [...]
Two US congressional committees Monday launched investigations into Mississippi’s handling of the Jackson water crisis. In August, torrential rain and flooding in the Jackson, Mississippi area left approximately 180,000 people without water for days. The Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Committee on Homeland Security are requesting information from Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves on [...]
Australia Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler Tuesday announced an investigation into the nation’s Medicare system after a joint investigation by expert Margaret Faux, the Australia Broadcasting Corporation, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age alleged that an estimated $8 billion AUD ($5.031 billion USD) is misspent each year. Butler suggested that Faux’s [...]
The US Supreme Court Monday declined to consider whether people born in American Samoa are entitled to birthright citizenship under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Currently, people born in American Samoa can apply for US citizenship but do not receive it automatically at birth. “The Justices continue to avoid answering basic questions about [...]
