Ukrainian officials imposed sanctions against Andriy Derkach, a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament who was accused by the US of being a Russian agent and interfering in the 2020 US presidential election, on Friday. During a briefing, secretary of the security and defense council, Oleksy Danilov, stated that Ukraine was sanctioning Derkach along with [...]

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled unanimously Saturday that a temporary injunction blocking new laws limiting Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear’s emergency powers was improper, and it remanded the case with instructions to dissolve the injunction. Beshear declared a state of emergency on March 6, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Following legal challenges brought by [...]

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has delayed a district court injunction requiring the Biden administration to reinstate the Trump-era migrant protections protocols (MPP). In the Friday order, Alito wrote: “the injunction issued by the District Court is stayed until 11:59 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, August 24 so that the full Court can consider the [...]

The Malawi Supreme Court of Appeals on Friday issued a ruling reversing its prior judgement that had declared the death penalty unconstitutional. In a corrected ruling, seven of the nine judges that were part of the initial bench hearing the case distanced themselves from the original judgment, claiming that the judge who expressed the opinion [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a law student in Kabul offers his latest observations and perspective. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding his name and institutional affiliation. The text has been only lightly [...]

The Dubai government’s media office announced on Sunday that the Dubai Courts have established a specialized money laundering court to thwart financial crimes. The new court was set up within the Court of First Instance and the Court of Appeal. Through this specialized court, the Dubai Courts hope to increase “the UAE’s and Dubai’s global [...]

China’s National People’s Congress, passed a new law Friday that aims to protect individuals’ privacy on Friday. Under the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), when personal information processors use automated decision-making to advertise to individuals, they must allow individuals to reject the marketing. Alternatively, when showing the information, personal information processors must include options that [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a female law student in northeast Afghanistan offers her observations and perspective about the position of women and female members of Afghanistan’s legal community under the Taliban. For privacy and security [...]

The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law. – Peter Maurer As the United States moves out of Afghanistan, the Taliban are taking advantage of that move and have taken control of that war-torn land. The rule of law is fading with every step the [...]

Ghana, one of the most successful democracies in Africa, is now being criticized widely at the hands of human rights defenders all over the world. After Russia, Nigeria, Uganda, and Hungary, this African country is all set to criminalize homosexuality. Eight members of Parliament have proposed a bill that criminalizes the LGBTQ+ community in the [...]