Sri Lankan law students are reporting for JURIST on the situation in that country since mass protests and the physical invasion of the President’s House in Colombo by demonstrators forced the departure and resignation of Sri Lanka’s president and precipitated the imposition of emergency rule. Here, Naveera Perera of CfPS Law School reports from Colombo. [...]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Sunday that he had dismissed the Ukrainian Prosecutor General and the head of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) from their posts amid an investigation that revealed that more than 60 SBU and Prosecutor General’s Office employees are currently engaged in treason against Ukraine. Zelensky said that he made the decision to [...]
The US House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack has subpoenaed the US Secret Service (USSS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in order to obtain erased text messages from January 5-6, 2021. The subpoena, signed by committee chair Representative Bennie G. Thompson on Friday, seeks text messages from the USSS concerning the January 6 [...]
The Delhi Sessions Court has granted bail to journalist Mohammed Zubair who was arrested on June 27 for a 2018 tweet that allegedly hurt religious sentiments and promoted enmity. The Delhi Police arrested Zubair under Sections 153A and 295 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for tweeting a “questionable image with a purpose to deliberately insult [...]
The US House of Representatives has passed HR 8296, the Women’s Health Protection Act, which seeks to preserve the right to give and receive abortions without state-imposed restrictions. Under the bill, passed on Friday, states cannot prohibit any particular abortion procedure before fetal viability. Patients cannot be required to give their health care provider a reason [...]
Illinois judges Friday found that the police evidence used to convict four men in two cases was not reliable and ruled that the men be released from prison. Brothers Juan and Rosendo Hernandez, along with Arthur Almendarez and John Galvan, were released from prison after the judges found that the police detectives involved had possibly [...]
The US Department of Justice Friday opened an investigation of the Maryland Department of State Police’s (MDSP) hiring and promotion practices. The investigation was opened under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in employment practices. According to a press release from the district attorney’s office, “Under Title VII, the Justice [...]
The UK government formally backed the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Bill at its second reading in parliament on Friday, where it was passed by MPs. By making it unlawful for businesses to withhold well-earned service charges from their employees, the new bill, once in law, will ensure that all tips, gratuities and service charges paid by [...]
NGO Environmental Action Germany (DUH), Dutch cooperative Mobilisation for the Environment, and citizens’ initiative Clean Air East Frisia Friday filed a lawsuit in the Court of Justice in The Hague challenging planned gas drilling in the Dutch North Sea. The Dutch government has approved plans by Dutch exploration and production company ONE-Dyas to develop a gas field 1.5 [...]
Georgia’s Cobb County School District has voted to approve a policy allowing some non-police personnel to carry guns in the school district. This action follows the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting where the police have been criticized for delayed response to the active shooter. The US Department of Justice recently opened an investigation into the police response [...]
