Former US president Donald Trump filed to dismiss state-level criminal charges by asserting immunity claims in an election interference case on Monday. In seeking to have the Georgia judge dismiss the case, Trump asserts that his indictment is unconstitutional because he was acting in his official presidential capacity, which exempts him from being prosecuted. In [...]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan lifted a lifetime ban on politicians with convictions from contesting elections on Monday. A 2018 ruling by the Lahore High Court barred politicians convicted of an offense from running for elected or chosen office for life. The Lahore High Court made its ruling following a strict interpretation of Article 62(1)(f) [...]

Farzona Kayumova is a staff correspondent for JURIST in Uzbekistan and a law student at Tashkent State University of Law.  2023 was a year of great legal and political change in the history of the Republic of Uzbekistan. More change is coming in 2024. The following laws will enter into force in Uzbekistan from January [...]

Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud signed a law on Saturday nullifying a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the government of Ethiopia and Somaliland. The MoU is said to give Ethiopia access to the Gulf of Aden in exchange for Ethiopia’s recognition of Somaliland’s independence from Somalia as well as Somaliland’s shares of equivalent value in [...]

US District Judge John F. Walter denied a motion by Raymond Chan, former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor of Economic Development, on Friday to dismiss a series of charges in a sprawling public corruption indictment. Chan faces a 12-count federal indictment on RICO, bribery, honest services and false statements. The indictment includes charges that, while in [...]

The Hong Kong trial of prominent pro-democracy activist and media mogul Jimmy Lai has garnered widespread attention globally. Lai, a 76-year-old British citizen and high-profile critic of Beijing, faces national security charges, and his trial is expected to take months. Lai is a prominent figure in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. His detention and subsequent trial [...]

Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador urged for more support from the United States and Canada in dealing with North America’s migration challenges in a press conference held on Friday to address the safe release of recent kidnapped migrants. On December 30, 32 migrants on a bus from the Mexican city of Monterrey to Matamoros [...]

An Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle transporting journalists in southern Gaza on Saturday, resulting in two casualties and one injury. A source from Reporters Without Borders tells Al-Jazeera that they believe the vehicle was directly targeted. Al Jazeera journalist Hamza Al Dahdouh and Agence France-Presse journalist Mustafa Thuraya were killed. Hamza Dahdouh was the son [...]

The Pakistani Government raised concerns in a letter to The Economist on Friday regarding an article purportedly written by former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is currently in jail after a conviction in a corruption case. Khan questions the fairness of the upcoming general election in the piece. Murtaza Solangi, Pakistan’s Federal Caretaker Minister [...]

Numerous organizations intensified their protests Sunday at Hariharpur village in the state of Chhattisgarh in India, raising demands to cancel the Parsa coal mine as it threatens large-scale deforestation of the Hasdeo forests of Chhattisgarh, also known as the lungs of Chhattisgarh. The Parsa (East) and Kanta Basan (PEKB) coal mine was allotted to Rajasthan Rajya [...]