US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who was previously removed to El Salvador in March in defiance of a federal court order, has been returned to the US and is now facing criminal charges. A federal grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee indicted Abrego Garcia [...]
A UN official raised concerns on Wednesday over North Korea’s “troubling pattern” of weapons testing, including intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and intermediate-range hypersonic missiles. UN Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari warned that the persistent pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs defies international law and “continue to undermine the global nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime.” [...]
UN humanitarian personnel called for an end to the “brutal” conflict in Sudan on Wednesday as drone strikes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) increased. The UN urged an immediate cessation of hostilities and all measures to protect civilians and infrastructure in accordance with international humanitarian law. Echoing [...]
In August 2021, the world watched as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, sweeping away two decades of progress toward democracy, human rights and gender equality. While international headlines have since moved on to other crises, millions of Afghan women and girls continue to live under increasingly restrictive policies that have systematically stripped away their [...]
Ernesa Shala is a JURIST staff correspondent from Kosovo and a recent graduate of the University of Pristina Faculty of Law. In a deeply concerning turn of events, Kosovo has fallen to 99th place in the 2025 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom Index, the lowest ranking in over 15 years. This decline is a [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) alerted the public on Tuesday of a second case of spyware attack on a journalist and urged Italian authorities to investigate. CPJ’s Europe representative, Attila Mong, criticized the targeting of journalists and categorized it as “a pattern of surveillance aimed at intimidating and silencing investigative reporting.” Mong recognized these [...]
The EU Parliament on Wednesday urged a halt to plans for Türkiye’s accession into the EU, stating that the country has failed to address major democratic shortcomings and silenced dissident voices. Members of the EU Parliament (MEPs) have cited fears that Türkiye is well on its way to becoming an authoritarian state after politically motivated [...]
Reporters without Borders (RSF) on Wednesday condemned the assault on seven journalists who were violently attacked this week in the southwestern Syrian city of Sweida. The assaults—ranging from detention and physical violence to death threats—come amid rising concerns about the safety of journalists during Syria’s fragile political transition. The journalists had traveled to Sweida to [...]
A US federal court in Rhode Island on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction against a presidential executive order issued in March that cuts funding for several federal agencies, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). This comes in response to an injunction filed by 21 state attorneys general last month. Executive Order 14238, [...]
A California jury ordered NSO Group Technologies to pay WhatsApp $444,719 in compensatory damages and $167,254,000 in punitive damages on Tuesday. The jury found that “NSO engaged in malice, oppression, or fraud in violating the California Comprehensive Data Access and Fraud Act.” WhatsApp brought its complaint against NSO, an Israeli cybersecurity company, on October 29, [...]
