A federal judge in the US District Court for the Central District of California Monday ruled against former Los Angeles City Councilman José Huizar, allowing evidence collected from a 2016 FBI search warrant at Huizar’s trial. Huizar argued that there were issues with the FBI search warrant. Huizar served on the Los Angeles City Council [...]

US ambassadors and lawmakers have vowed to take action against Russia should the situation in Ukraine progress any further. The UN Security Council gathered on Monday to discuss Russia’s recent massing of troops along the Ukraine border and fears of invasion. In her remarks before the UN Security Council, US Ambassador to the UN Linda [...]

The African Union (AU) Monday suspended Burkina Faso in response to the January 24 military coup ousting President Roch Marc Christian Kabore. The Peace and Security Council, the AU’s standing decision-making organ for the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts, announced its decision “to suspend the participation of Burkina Faso in all AU activities until [...]

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. In this dispatch, one of our law students reflects on the one-year anniversary of the military coup on February 1. The [...]

US Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal on Monday reintroduced the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies, or EARN IT Act. The Act, heavily opposed in its initial 2020 run, is aimed at stripping big tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube’s of legal protection against online child sexual abuse material. Lawmakers including Senator [...]

Two of the three men convicted in the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery reached plea deals on Sunday, but District Judge Lisa Wood of the US District Court for the Southern District of Georgia rejected the plea deals on Monday.  Father and son duo Gregor and Travis McMichael, along with their neighbor William Bryan, were convicted [...]

An accountability court based in Lahore acquitted Mir Shakilur Rehman, the editor-in-chief of the Jang Media Group, of corruption charges on Monday. Jang Media Group is Pakistan’s largest independent news conglomerate. The company owns popular news stations, such as Geo News, and numerous newspapers, including Jang and The News. Rehman was arrested in 2020 by [...]

The Supreme Court of Cyprus overturned Monday the conviction of a British woman found guilty of allegedly faking a claim that she was gang-raped in the island-nation. The then 19-year-old British woman was found guilty in January 2020 of public mischief on grounds that she made a false claim of being gang-raped by 12 Israeli [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement Monday on the forced disappearance of Hossam Menoufy Mahmoud Sallam by Egyptian security authorities earlier this month. HRW called for authorities to immediately release Menoufy’s location and reveal the legal basis for his arrest. Menoufy was a passenger on a direct flight from Khartoum, Sudan to Istanbul, Turkey [...]

Amnesty International Monday released a statement condemning the European Union’s cooperation with Libyan authorities to intercept refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. According to Amnesty, “migrants and refugees both in and outside of detention in Libya are systematically subjected to a litany of abuses by militias, armed groups and security forces with [...]