Russia’s Moscow City Court Monday upheld a lower court ruling that Meta was guilty of “extremist activity” and kept the Kremlin’s ban on the social media company in place. State news agency TASS reported that the court called the ban “lawful and justified” after Russia’s media regulator, Roskomnadzor, and Federal Security Service (FSB) intervened in [...]
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada Monday ratified the Council of Europe’s Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (“Istanbul Convention“). In a 259-8 Vote, the Parliament ratified the Convention after previously signing it on 7 November, 2011. The Director of Amnesty International Ukraine, Oksana Pokalchuk, welcomed the historic moment and said the “decision could [...]
The US State Department Sunday shared its “deep concern” over the two-year prison sentence of Vietnamese activist Nguyễn Thúy Hạnh. Nguyễn, the founder of the Green Innovation and Development Centre and Vietnam’s first recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize, was detained and arrested on two occasions in 2021 for violating Article 117 of Vietnam’s Criminal Code [...]
Ukrainian law students and young lawyers are reporting for JURIST on national and international developments in and affecting Ukraine. This dispatch is from Anastasiia Rozvadovska, a recent graduate of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Nearly eight years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, the trial of suspects at the District [...]
More than two years after gunman Gabriel Wortman went on a shooting spree that killed 22 people in rural Nova Scotia, questions of why and how this atrocity happened still weigh heavily on Nova Scotian hearts. Families of the victims and the citizens of Nova Scotia have demanded accountability from the authorities under whose watch [...]
Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada Sunday adopted two laws restricting the flow of Russian media into the country. The first law (N 7459) prohibits the importation of books from Russia, Belarus, and Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory, and the second bill (N7273-d) bans Russian music from being played in public. The first law intends to protect Ukrainian culture and [...]
Japan’s Osaka District Court ruled Monday that the country’s ban on same-sex marriages is not unconstitutional. The court rejected claims brought by three same-sex couples who sought marriage licenses. Because the court found the ban to be constitutional, it also dismissed the plaintiffs’ demands for 1 million yen in damages per couple who argued that [...]
Protests in Ecuador continued Sunday as hundreds of indigenous people went to the capital Quito to demand economic reforms. The protesters want President Guillermo Lasso to lower price gas prices, stop additional oil and mining development, and extend deadlines for small farmers to pay off debts, among other things. The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of [...]
Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a law student in Kabul reports on Taliban pressures on minority Hindu and Sikh populations. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our correspondent’s name. The text has only been lightly edited to respect [...]
Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin Sunday told the BBC that the UK’s revised Northern Ireland post-Brexit trade protocol would “effectively be very damaging to the NI economy.” As Martin noted, “it represents a form of economic vandalism on Northern Ireland.” The UK government’s Reformed Northern Ireland Protocol is intended to ease the flow of goods between [...]
