UN experts warned the Australian government to take action to rescue 46 Australian citizens, including 30 children, from camps in north-eastern Syria. In a letter released Sunday, UN experts described how the conditions in the camps constitute violations of human rights and meet the standard for torture. The 46 Australian citizens are in the Al-Hol [...]
Boris Johnson is the first UK Prime Minister to be fined for breaking the law and has thrust the country toward a constitutional crisis, according to a leading constitutional expert. Johnson was fined on April 12 for violating UK COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. In March 2020 the UK imposed a national lockdown in response to the COVID-19 [...]
A shooting at an Airbnb party on Pittsburgh’s North Side early Sunday resulted in 10 gunshot victims. Local hospitals pronounced two juvenile victims dead as a result of the shooting. Shots were first fired around 2:30 AM during a large party with up to 200 people in attendance, including many individuals under 18. ShotSpotter, a [...]
A Russian court has registered administrative cases against Google and Wikipedia and threatened to impose hefty fines, according to Interfax News Agency. Wikimedia Foundation Inc. and Google could be fined for refusing to remove inaccurate information about the special military operation in Ukraine, as well as for encouraging extremism against Russian citizens. Roskomnadzor, Russia’s internet [...]
A Taiwanese activist returned home Friday after serving a five-year jail sentence in China for “subversion of state power.” Lee Ming-che disappeared in March 2017. A week after his disappearance, he was found in the custody of the Chinese government. He had been arrested and charged for subversion of state power. During trial, Lee admitted [...]
Tesla shareholders Friday requested that a US district court block Elon Musk from his “public campaign to present a contradictory and false narrative” regarding Musk’s 2018 tweets about taking the company private. This request comes as part of an ongoing lawsuit the shareholders filed against Tesla and Musk. On April 1, US District Court Judge [...]
Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a female Afghan law student reports on the growing number and severity of Taliban restrictions on women since August 2021. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our correspondent’s name. The text has only [...]
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Friday said that the UK’s plan to export its asylum obligations by transferring asylum seekers and refugees to Rwanda for asylum processing is a violation of international law. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Thursday announced that under the UK and Rwanda’s new migration and economic development partnership, “nyone [...]
What the bill is all about The brave and ever-evolving “digital world” is transforming our lives today. As a corollary, biometric technology is regarded as an effective, accurate, and dependable way for flawless identification, verification, and authentication of a person. In the same parlance, the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 (“the Bill”), has received a nod [...]
The Moscow Times (MT) and Radio France Internationale (RFI) Friday reported that the Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has blocked access to their websites. MT said that its Russian-language service has been blocked by the communications regulator based on a request by the Prosecutor General’s office. Roskomnadzor’s universal restriction check service confirms that the MT site’s [...]
