The arrest of Spanish rapper Pablo Hasél for allegedly glorifying terrorism and insulting the monarchy sparked protests attended by thousands of persons across Spain on Tuesday. Hasél’s charges are in relation to a series of his tweets and song lyrics. Hasél barricaded himself alongside supporters on Tuesday inside the University of Lleida to avoid his [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment on Wednesday charging three North Korean computer programmers with conspiracy to commit a wide range of cybercrimes, including attempts to steal or extort up to $1.3 billion from companies and financial institutions. The indictment alleges that the three men, Jon Chang Hyok, Kim Il and Park [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday issued an interim measure asking the government of Russia to release political activist and opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was recently sentenced to three-and-a-half years for violating his parole. The ECHR’s ruling was rejected by Russian authorities, including the Minister of Justice and the Press Secretary [...]

The Sudanese government Sunday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for cooperating on the trial of former militant leader Ali Kushayb who is accused of committing war crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan. According to the Prosecutor, Kushyab was a top commander of [...]

Poly or perfluoroalkyl compounds (PFAS) are a class of over 5,000 man-made chemicals that have seen heavy use since the 60s in applications as varied as non-adhesive cookware, water-repellent clothing, and firefighting foam for combating oil blazes. PFAS are almost unreactive and incredibly resistant to extreme heat and other environmental actions. However, the same properties [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that Kentucky’s Billboard Act is unconstitutional. The Billboard Act prohibits off-site advertisements that are not securely affixed to the ground, attached to a mobile structure, and for which no permit has been obtained. Lion’s Den Adult Bookstore, which is [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – The Myanmar military government blacked out the country’s internet again Thursday morning for eight hours from 1 AM Myanmar time for the fourth night in a row. Connections were restored just after 9 AM. One of our law student correspondents in Myanmar says that according to local news reports, these forced blackouts [...]

The Third Cassation Court in St. Petersburg on Tuesday rejected the appeal of historian and human rights activist Yuri Dmitriev following a September proceeding that overturned his sentence and “canceled” a prior acquittal. The September ruling by the high court of the Republic of Karelia held that Dmitriev was guilty of “committing acts of a [...]

Constitutions don’t always matter much in a coup. But the 2008 Constitution matters to Myanmar’s coup of 1 February. The military has created a constitutional fiction about the coup in a thin attempt to claim legality for its actions. I explain the legal disputes that the military claims are the pretext for exercising constitutional emergency [...]

JURIST’s new Explainer section aims to provide easily digestible explanations of some of the more complex legal issues underpinning our global news coverage. The crime of genocide has reemerged in global headlines since the United States accused Beijing in January of committing genocide against the Uyghurs and members of other Muslim minority groups in western [...]