In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court of India (SC), on Friday, reinforced the constitutional mandate that the grounds of arrest must be communicated to an accused, calling it a “mandatory constitutional requirement” rather than a mere formality. The judgment, delivered by a bench led by Justice Abhay S. Oka in Vihaan Kumar vs. The [...]

Amnesty International denounced Tunisian authorities’ increased arrests of LGBTI individuals on Thursday. The organization reported that at least 84 individuals, mostly gay men and transgender women, have been arrested since September 2024. The wave of arrests began after a homophobic and transphobic online campaign gained traction. Many individuals involved in the campaign were supporters of [...]

Trump administration issued an executive order on Thursday aimed at addressing government actions perceived as hostile to Christianity. The order asserts that previous government policies unfairly targeted Christian individuals and organizations. The order establishes a task force for two years, chaired by the Attorney General, to review the activities of Biden’s administration and issue recommendations [...]

The Australian government on Thursday enacted a new law banning the display of hate symbols and mandating minimum sentences for certain terror offenses, as part of a broader effort to curb a surge in antisemitism across the country. The Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2024 targets the most extreme types of damaging hate speech, [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned Sri Lankan authorities on Thursday for what it called their failure to uphold accountability and due process in the 2009 extrajudicial killing of investigative journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge, urging decisive action to end the country’s “alarming record of impunity” in journalist killings. CPJ Asia Program Coordinator Beh Lih Yi denounced [...]

In this piece for JURIST News, Tejaswini Kaushal, an undergraduate student at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, India, dives into recent legal developments regarding transgender rights in India, and a recent ruling in the ‘Mrs X v the State of Karnataka’ case from 2024.  Imagine a transgender woman in India fighting for [...]

Judge John Coughenour of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington granted a nationwide preliminary injunction Thursday blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship and accused the president of ignoring the rule of law for his own gain. In remarks in the courtroom, Coughenour said, “It has become [...]

The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Judge Tomoko Akane, on Friday condemned US President Donald Trump’s executive order of the previous day that imposed sanctions on the court’s staff. The order follows the ICC’s issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant, which the US [...]

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 [...]

Two bereaved families filed a case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Wednesday, claiming that the UK government’s bereavement support policy is discriminatory. Leigh Day, the law firm representing the families, said the government’s cut-off date for Bereavement Support Payment (BSP) eligibility is “arbitrary” and discriminates against unmarried, cohabitating partners and their [...]