The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) condemned Thailand’s deportation of 40 Uyghur asylum seekers to China on Thursday. The group stated that repeated requests to access the detained Uyghurs and secure assurances against forced returns were ignored, violating domestic and international human rights laws. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk described the [...]

Kenya’s High Court of Garissa ruled on Wednesday that the Kenyan government’s refusal to issue identification documents to ethnic Somali Kenyan nationals was unconstitutional and infringed on their rights. Kenyan NGO Haki-na-Sheria issued a statement on Wednesday welcoming the judgment on its official X account. The NGO stated that the High Court ordered the Kenyan [...]

Conservative advocacy group Right on Crime urged lawmakers to reform the “criminal mental state” requirement in federal criminal codes in a report published on Thursday. The report also criticized the proliferation of laws that require no specific mental state as contributing to over-criminalization in the country. Right on Crime contends that “there has been an [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday welcomed the acquittal of prominent refugee rights lawyer and former chair of the organization’s Türkiye branch, Taner Kılıç, following an eight-year judicial process but expressed concern over continued repression of human rights activists. In its statement, the human rights organization said that Kılıç’s case exemplifies the Turkish authorities’ attempts to criminalize [...]

Positioned at the intersection of legal education and journalistic purpose, JURIST has a unique insight into how essential student voices are to advocating for the rule of law worldwide. The theme of this year’s Student Press Freedom Day, “Powerfully Persistent,” resonates deeply with our mission. Since our founding in 1996, JURIST has witnessed how student [...]

US Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday blocked a district court’s temporary restraining order (TRO) that implemented a midnight deadline to release over a billion US dollars in funding for the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The TRO had originally been granted by Judge Amir Ali from the US District Court for the District [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled Thursday that France had violated the right to life substantively, but not procedurally, for the death of a protester in the case of Fraisse and Others v. France. Lawyers for Fraisse’s family brought the case before the ECtHR. In the ruling, the court unanimously found that the [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday welcomed the discontinuation of digital forensic equipment for some customers in Serbia. The move followed Amnesty International’s allegations that the technology was being misused against journalists and activists. Amnesty International says that the announcement reinforces its findings that “Serbian police and intelligence routinely misused Cellebrite’s digital forensic equipment outside legally sanctioned [...]

In a significant shake-up at the Pentagon last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the top military lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force. This decision comes amid a broader series of dismissals across the Department of Defense (DOD), including that of Charles “CQ” Brown, Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — [...]

The European Commission (EC) proposed to simplify sustainability rules for businesses, on Wednesday, arguing that complex regulations and “red tape” are preventing EU businesses from maintaining competitiveness and hindering economic investment. The primary proposal is to delay the application of the new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) law for applicable companies, as well as other [...]