The organization Equal Rights Center (ERC) filed a lawsuit against Meta on Tuesday alleging that it unlawfully discriminated against Black Facebook and Instagram users by disproportionately advertising for-profit colleges and universities to Black users, while marketing public colleges and universities to white users. ERC argued in its complaint that Meta’s discriminatory marketing practices were unlawful [...]

Amnesty International and the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights both released statements Tuesday condemning the Egyptian military’s trial of a group of civilian fishermen caught fishing during a “prohibited period” within a military area, highlighting unfair procedures and a lack of judicial independence in military trials. The actual trial of the fisherman was subject to [...]

Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday urged Kazakhstan to drop allegedly politically motivated charges against satirical blogger Temirlan Ensebek, and encouraged the government to respect Ensebek’s freedom of expression. Temirlan Ensebek was charged with “inciting interethnic discord” under Article 174 of Kazakhstan’s Criminal Code and now faces up to seven years in prison. This is primarily [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other immigrant advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration Wednesday to gain access to detained migrants flown to Guantánamo Bay. The ACLU claims that holding migrants without access to lawyers or a means to communicate with relatives violates their habeas corpus rights, First Amendment rights, due [...]

Belarus released on Wednesday three individuals who had been imprisoned for over three years, including an American citizen and a journalist, according to US officials. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed the release of the American citizen, emphasizing the Trump administration’s commitment to securing the freedom of unlawfully detained Americans. Rubio expressed gratitude to Lithuania for [...]

Amnesty International called on Wednesday for Houthi de-facto authorities to investigate the death of a UN World Food Program (WFP) worker who was arbitrarily detained in a Houthi detention centre on January 23, 2025. Amnesty International’s Yemen Researcher Diala Haidar said, “This death in custody also heightens fears for the safety and well-being of all [...]

The Center for Reproductive Rights criticized on Wednesday the German Legal Affairs Committee’s decision to decline to advance a proposal to improve and modernize abortion laws and reproductive care. The Center for Reproductive Rights expressed “deep disappointment over the failure” to progress the bill, and criticized the law as it currently stands for falling “short [...]

In 1996, when Professor Bernard Hibbitts first established JURIST, few could have foreseen the impact the project would have. Whether measured in terms of the individual lives it has touched, its global reach, or the impressions it has left on the landscape of online legal news coverage, JURIST’s role cannot be overstated. What began as [...]

Dear President Trump, As an ordinary citizen, I write to protest and dissent from your effort in plain sight to dismantle the United States Constitution and the Federal Government. You took the oath to take care and faithfully execute the laws of the United States. Instead, you try to dismantle sections of the government established [...]

“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”* — JD Vance, US Vice President, via [...]