These days, the Sri Lankan rupee has fallen by almost 45 percent compared to the US dollar. Its foreign exchange reserves are nearly dry, having dropped below $1 billion. Meanwhile, the island nation has to repay debts of about $4 billion in the rest of this year, including a $1 billion international sovereign bond that [...]

US District Judge James Donato dismissed former President Trump’s lawsuit against Twitter that challenged his permanent account suspension. The suit was in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Twitter permanently banned Trump’s account after the Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021.  After his account was banned, Trump sued Twitter for First [...]

The Singapore High Court Thursday convicted Malaysian businessman and woman, John Soh Chee wen and Quah Su-Ling for market manipulation and cheating offences that led to the 2013 penny-stock crash. Local media outlets have said that the 2013 crash was the outcome of Singapore’s most serious case of market manipulation, as it wiped out more than [...]

US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Thursday called the leak of the Supreme Court’s highly anticipated abortion opinion “absolutely appalling.” A leaked draft US Supreme Court opinion published Monday by POLITICO shows that the justices have voted to overturn the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade. The leak prompted large scale protests by abortion-rights activists outside [...]

Amnesty International Friday published a report documenting war crimes committed by Russian forces in the northwest portion of Kyiv Oblast. In April Amnesty International investigators spent 12 days in Bucha, Borodyanka, Novyi Korohod, Andrivka, Zdvyzhivka, Vorzel, Makariv and Dmytrivka investigating war crimes. The investigators interviewed around 45 people who witnessed or had first-hand knowledge of [...]

The Supreme Court of Belarus Friday announced that Russian law student Sofia Sapega was sentenced in Grodno Regional Court to six years imprisonment for involvement with opposition activities in the country. Sapega was convicted of inciting social hatred and disseminating personal information without consent, charges which together carry a maximum of 15 years in prison. [...]

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Friday announced settled charges against NVIDIA Corporation (NVIDIA) for “inadequate disclosures concerning the impact of crypto mining on the company’s gaming business.” As a result of the SEC’s findings, “NVIDIA agreed to a cease-and-desist order and to pay a $5.5 million penalty.” Chief of the SEC Enforcement Divisions [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a young lawyer reports on a new Taliban decree issued Saturday on the wearing of hijabs by Afghan women. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our correspondent’s name. The text has only been [...]

A Spanish judge Thursday ordered the release of pro-Russian Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Shary but forbade him from leaving the country pending an extradition hearing. Shary was arrested in Tarragona, where he has resided since 2019, by Spain’s National Police Corps at the request of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU). Judge Jose Luis Calama of Spain’s Audencia [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Indiana Wednesday challenged a new Indiana bail law in US district court. The ACLU claims that the new law places unconstitutional limitations on charitable bail organizations’ ability to pay bail in violation of organizations’ First Amendment and equal protection rights. The lawsuit references organizations like The Bail Project, [...]