The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department issued an arrest warrant Friday for former Police Officer Roy Oliver over the murder of Jordan Edwards, a young black man. Oliver turned himself in that night. Roy Oliver was a Police Officer with the Balch Springs Police Department in Texas when he fatally shot the high school freshman on [...]

The US Department of State issued a press release Friday expressing concern over the prolonged pretrial detention of five Cambodian activists. Four members of the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) , along with one former member, have been held by Cambodian authorities for over a year, without receiving a trial. The defenders were [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Ricardo Arredondo, a professor at University of Buenos Aires, responds to David Crane’s commentary article in respect to the international law on the use of force… A few days ago Prof. Crane wrote a very interesting article about the international law on the use of force, particularly regarding in situations where mass [...]

The Supreme Court of India upheld death sentences on Friday for four men who fatally gang raped a woman in 2012. The group, five men and a juvenile, lured the young woman, a para-medical student, and her friend onto a bus in New Dehli whereupon they repeatedly raped the woman before beating both her and [...]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a criminal investigation into Uber Technologies Inc. for the use of a software tool that helped drivers evade local transport regulators, according to a Thursday report by Reuters. The software, known as “Greyball”, was part of a larger system named Violation of Terms of Service that analyzed credit [...]

The US House of Representatives voted 217-213 Thursday to repeal portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and replace them using the proposed American Health Care Act (AHCA) . The AHCA would no longer impose a tax penalty for those who don’t have insurance, but would allow insurance companies to charge a penalty when someone [...]

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday relaxing enforcement of rules prohibiting tax-exempt religious groups from engaging in certain kinds of political speech. An existing federal law called the Johnson Amendment prohibits tax-exempt religious organizations from campaigning for particular candidates. But interpreting what crosses the line between advocating for certain policies, which is [...]

Prominent Thai human right lawyer Prawet Prapanukul was charged Wednesday with 10 counts of breaking Article 112 and 3 counts of breaking Article 116 of Thailand’s criminal code for allegedly insulting members of the royal family. If found guilty of all the charges, Prapanukul faces up to 171 years in prison. Article 112 prohibits defaming, [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist David M. Crane and Catherine Read discuss the Supreme Court’s decision on denying cert in the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit… Last Monday, 24 April, it was easy to miss the important news that the Supreme Court denied cert in the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to make public the [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism Ben Emmerson said Thursday that Saudi Arabia’s anti-terrorism laws are too broad and post a threat to individual rights. He said that Saudi Arabia’s definition of terrorism, which includes “endangering ‘national unity’ or undermining ‘the reputation or position [...]