People who lack the capacity to consent are being detained without appropriate checks and balances, according to a report released by the UK Law Commission Monday. According to the report, people with dementia and learning disabilities are not being given Article 5 safeguards before being deprived of their rights to liberty and security. Article 5 [...]

Gustavo Gallon , the independent expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti, called Monday for increased aid to victims of Hurricane Matthew. In his initial report , Gallon recounted visiting High School Nord Alexis, a school where 525 affected families have sought refuge. Gallon said that these families and others similarly situated required [...]

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Monday that his state would be joining Washington and Minnesota in their lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s revised executive order banning citizens from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the US. In an announcement Monday, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said California is the latest state to join in opposition [...]

An Egyptian public prosecutor announced on Monday that former president Hosni Mubarak will be released from detention in a military hospital. During a retrial this month, Mubarak, who was overthrown in 2011, was cleared of conspiracy to murder protesters during the 2011 uprising, for which he had been sentenced to life in prison. Mubarak had [...]

A three-judge panel of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled Friday that the boundaries of three voting districts violated the Voting Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution . The court held that the districts were intentionally drawn to either splitting Latino communities into different districts [...]

Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of Scotland , said Monday that she will seek a referendum to allow Scottish citizen to vote on independence from the UK ahead of the British exit from the EU , also referred to as Brexit. This would be the first referendum on independence for Scotland since September 2014, when [...]

The EU said Monday that Moldova needs to do more to encourage an independent judiciary and investigate bank fraud in a released Monday. The report follows the EU-Moldova Association Agreement , which fully entered force in July and aims to strengthen the political and economic integration of Moldova and the EU. According to the joint [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin G. Davis of University of Toledo College of Law discusses the International Criminal Court’s looking into investigating Americans for criminal prosecution for torture of prisoners in Afghanistan… As has been recently reported in the news, the International Criminal Court is looking into investigating Americans for criminal prosecution for torture in Afghanistan. [...]

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere confirmed on Sunday that a Tunisian man responsible for a deadly museum attack in Tunisia in 2015 will be deported. Maiziere said, “I can confirm that the talks between us and the Tunisian side have been successful…and I expect that he will soon be deported.” In addition to the [...]

A federal judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin granted a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump’s revised immigration ban on Friday to a Syrian asylum seeker and his family. The order is limited to the one man and his family, and will remain in effect only until the [...]