An Australian jury found a police officer not guilty Friday of all charges related to the death of a young indigenous man in the remote community of Yuendumu, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Constable Zachary Rolfe shot and killed 19-year-old Walpiri man Kumanjayi Walker during an attempted arrest on the night of November 9, [...]

Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed 81 men in one day for charges ranging from terrorism to holding “deviant beliefs,” according to Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior. According to a statement issued by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), these individuals were convicted of several crimes. This included murdering innocent men, women and children. Some of the [...]

Travis County Judge Amy Clark Meachum granted an injunction Friday in Doe v. Abbott, preventing Texas from investigating the parents of a transgender teenager. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit on March 1, 2022 to challenge a directive from Governor Greg Abbott ordering the Texas Department of Family and [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) through spokesperson Liz Throssell Friday said that it had received credible reports of Russian forces using cluster munitions in populated regions in Ukraine. The office has also learned of arbitrary arrests of Ukrainians who voiced their opposition through peaceful protest.  OHCHR received a report [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a statement Friday raising alarm about Russia’s recent adoption of a punitive “fake news” law. According to the experts, the law places Russia under a “total information blackout” on the war. The Russian parliament had unanimously voted for certain amendments to the Criminal [...]

A Nicaraguan court Friday convicted former presidential candidate Cristiana Chamorro and her brother, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, for money laundering-related offences. They are the children of Nicaragua’s former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro. On May 19, 2021, the Interior Ministry notified Chamorro of a criminal investigation against her for laundering money through the Violeta Barrios de [...]

The Russian-Ukrainian crisis started to deteriorate in early 2021 when Ukraine arrested pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk on allegations of conspiring a coup d’etat, and Russia initiated military exercises near the Ukrainian border. Russia is the second-largest oil producer, trailing only the United States, and the third-leading oil exporter, behind Saudi Arabia and the United Arab [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul reports on recent actions by Taliban authorities. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our Correspondent’s name. The text has only been lightly edited to respect the [...]

The Saudi Arabian government has released blogger and human rights activist Raif Badawi on Friday after a ten-year prison sentence, his wife Ensaf Haider confirmed. Badawi founded an online forum, “Free Saudi Liberals,” that encouraged discussions about secularism and liberal religious practices. His writings were also critical of the Islamic clergy. He was arrested in [...]

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced Friday the fourth round of sanctions against Russia and Belarus. These sanctions seek to suspend Moscow’s “most-favored-nation” trade status under the World Trade Organization and ban exports of EU luxury goods to Russia. The sanctions also seek to ban certain Russian and Belarusian companies and [...]