The Syrian government has conducted “coordinated chemical attacks” on the rebel controlled portions of Aleppo, Human Rights Watch (HRW) alleged Monday. On the basis of interviews, video footage and social media posts, HRW concluded that the Assad regime dropped chlorine in residential areas at least eight times in November and December. HRW reported nine total [...]

Lee Jae-yong (Jay Y Lee) , unofficial head of South Korean giant Samsung, faced questioning from Seoul prosecutors Monday. Though a court in January refused to issue a warrant for his arrest, prosecutors have continued to investigate Lee’s connection to impeached South Korean president Park Guen-hye. Lee, who governs Korean business giant Samsung in his [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile of the University of Arkansas School of Law discusses the implications of massive agribusiness mergers in relation to eradicating world hunger … Cross-border and multijurisdictional mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, and strategic alliances are all the rage today. For instance, on April 12, 2017, European Union regulators will [...]

Australia’s offshore detention of asylum seekers constitutes a human rights violation, according to a petition filed Monday in the International Criminal Court (ICC) by a coalition of legal experts. The 108-page document, submitted to the ICC by the Global Legal Action Network (Glan) and the Stanford International Human Rights Clinic , urges the ICC prosecutor [...]

The US Department of Justice on Friday withdrew its appeal of an injunction preventing the Obama administration’s guidance that schools should allow transgender students to use the restroom of their choosing. The guidance stated that transgender students were protected under Title IX. A hearing was set for next Tuesday in the US Court of Appeals [...]

Six journalists were arrested in Ivory Coast on Sunday and charged with “spreading false information,” according to media outlets and public prosecutors. The journalists, including three media owners, allegedly published stories designed to incite further mutiny by security forces in the country who are protesting over compensation. The alleged “false news” appeared in Le Temps, [...]

Fifty-nine percent of Swiss voters opposed a proposal on Sunday that would prevent tax increases for corporations. Switzerland gives foreign firms lower taxes than domestic firms, which was criticized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development . In response, the Swiss government planned to change the special status of foreign multinational corporations but offer [...]

Pakistani authorities have driven nearly 600,000 Afghan refugees back into Afghanistan since July 2016, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report Monday. HRW claims that among those being forced out of the country are 365,000 lawfully registered refugees. HRW also alleges that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is complicit in what it [...]

The Islamabad High Court ruled Monday that all public celebrations of Valentine’s day are prohibited with “immediate effect.” The prohibition will affect government offices, private businesses and media sources. Print and electronic media have been ordered to cease all “Valentine’s Day promotions immediately” lest they are reported to the police by the Pakistan Electronic Media [...]

The Swedish Court of Patent Appeals and the Market Court , an appellate court with exclusive jurisdiction over intellectual property cases, ordered an Internet service provider (ISP) to block access to the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay and the streaming site Swefilmer . The decision overturns a district court’s 2015 ruling and orders Swedish ISP [...]