JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Thousands attended a peaceful sit-in rally near Zay Cho Market in downtown Mandalay Sunday, loudly voicing their denunciation of Myanmar’s military junta a day after protesters were killed by police and soldiers in the port area of the city Saturday afternoon. According to a law student at the rally for JURIST, the [...]

Turkey’s Court of Cassation on Friday upheld the two-and-a-half-year prison sentence given to Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a human rights activist and MP belonging to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on charges of “making propaganda for a terrorist organisation.” In 2016, Gergerlioğlu raised alarm in parliament and on social media platforms about women being subjected to [...]

Online news portal Malaysiakini was found guilty of contempt on Friday by the Federal Court of Malaysia on charges related to incendiary comments posted by readers which criticized several cordon sanitaire decisions by Malaysian judges. The charges were initiated by Attorney General Idrus Harun. His rationale behind the application was that the comments implied that the [...]

The Virginia State Senate approved a constitutional amendment on Friday that removes the prohibition on same-sex marriage with a vote of 22-12. The amendment is to Section 15-A of Article I of the Virginia Constitution, which recognized as a valid marriage only a union between a man and a woman. It failed to recognize any [...]

Long-time critic of the Russian government Alexei Navalny on Saturday lost the appeal of his conviction on parole violations. Navalny was jailed for the violations earlier this month after he was found guilty of failing to report from August 2020 to January 2021. During that time period, Navalny was in Germany recovering from an attempt [...]

The Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Liz Throssell in a statement made on Friday expressed the threat to judicial independence in Haiti. The statement was made in response to the arbitrary arrest of a Supreme Court judge and 22 other people on February 7, 2021. Moreover, the ordinary procedure was not [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – The death toll from protests in Mandalay on Saturday when police and soldiers opened fire on protesters has now increased to seven, with many more reported injured. One of JURIST’s law student correspondents in Mandalay – who was actually in the vicinity of the shooting – files this report: Today at Gaw [...]

The Malaysian Kuala Lumpur high court on Thursday ordered Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, to enter a defense on three counts of corruption. The corruption trial is linked to a multi-million-dollar project that was approved while Najib was prime minister. The corruption charges were filed in 2018 after Najib lost [...]

The Lebanese Criminal Court of Cassation decided on Thursday to remove Judge Fadi Sawan from the high-profile case of Beirut’s August 4 explosion. Sawan was appointed by the Higher Judicial Council (HJC), a 10-judge panel appointed by the country’s ruling class, as a judicial investigator, on the recommendation of the Caretaker Justice Minister Marie-Claude Najem. [...]

A federal grand jury on Friday indicted six new members of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing extremist group, for conspiring to prevent Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. The six members were arrested earlier this week and were included as co-defendants in a superseding indictment alleging that the individuals joined in a [...]