Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison after being found guilty of blasphemy by an Indonesian court . Ahok is Christian and the charges came as a result of his reference to a Qur’an verse used by conservative leaders to justify the claim that Muslims should not be [...]

Former acting US Attorney General Sally Yates testified before a Senate judiciary subcommittee on Monday stating that she had warned about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s vulnerabilities to blackmail by Russia less than a week after President Donald Trump assumed office. Flynn’s conversations with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to US was a primary [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit heard oral arguments on Monday regarding President Donald Trump’s immigration executive order. The Trump Administration is appealing a Maryland court ruling in March which placed a temporary ban on Trump’s Executive Order 13780 , also known as the “revised travel ban.” The plaintiffs in the case [...]

A Chinese human rights lawyer detained in the city of Changsha since 2015 pleaded guilty Monday to incitement to subversion and disturbing legal proceedings. Prosecutors accused Xie Yang of conspiring with people in and out of China to distort reports of police brutality, with the ultimate goals of undermining state power and threatening national security. [...]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Sunday signed into law a bill banning so-called “sanctuary cities” in the state. Under the law, municipal officials who fail to assist with federal immigration enforcement could face civil penalties, removal from office and criminal charges. Abbot said the law was needed to maintain public safety in the state: As [...]

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam on Friday signed SB 1085 into law which mandates that undefined laws be given their natural and ordinary meaning. Dubbed the “natural and ordinary meaning” law, it requires that “undefined words be given their natural and ordinary meaning, without forced or subtle construction that would limit or extend the meaning of [...]

The National Control Commission for the Election Campaign for the Presidential Election (CNCCEP) on Saturday cautioned media outlets against sharing information leaked from an alleged hack of a presidential candidate. The hackers have claimed to have stolen an estimated 9 gigabytes of data from the Emmanuel Macron campaign and the Macron-backed En Marche Party , [...]

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 [...]