Marine Le Pen, the former leader of France’s far-right party, the National Rally, appeared in court on Tuesday to appeal the penalty for her March 2025 embezzlement conviction. The central issue in the appeal centers on whether Le Pen’s penalty is legal and reasonable. Following the conviction, Le Pen was “barred from running for office [...]
President Donald Trump on Thursday warned that he may invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy troops in Minnesota to quell protests over the massive deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to the Twin Cities. The protests escalated following the January 7 fatal shooting of Minneapolis resident Renee Good, 37, by an ICE agent [...]
Hundreds of thousands of older Hungarians are being forced to choose between food, medicine, and heat as inadequate pensions fail to keep pace with rising costs, Human Rights Watch said in a new report. Hungary has been facing difficulties concerning the increase in poverty among older people, which has coincided with rising inflation since 2018. [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday released a previously classified memorandum assessing the legality of the Pentagon’s Operation Absolute Resolve, which led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Heavily redacted, it concludes that the president possesses the constitutional authority to order the military operation, which ultimately moved forward on January 3. [...]
The Hong Kong Court of First Instance rejected a sex discrimination challenge to the special administrative region’s prison dress code on Tuesday. Judge Russell Coleman held that male and female prisoners face incomparable circumstances that justify the difference in dress code. In summer, the Hong Kong Prisoner Personal Provisions required male prisoners to wear shorts [...]
Since November 1, 2024, international graduates in Canada seeking to apply for a Post-Graduate Work Permit (PGWP)—a work permit that allows recent graduates to gain Canadian work experience—are required to submit proof of language test results within 180 days of graduating. Despite these requirements, many students could not upload language proficiency documents because there is [...]
UN human rights experts have called on Egypt to lift ongoing restrictions on human rights defenders who have been released from detention, in line with international human rights standards. The special rapporteurs warned that many face travel bans, frozen assets, and continued inclusion on the country’s terrorism watchlist, preventing them from resuming normal life despite [...]
Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School. Two groups, two slogans, and one Court. On one side of the plaza, opponents of Idaho’s and West Virginia’s transgender bans rallied behind a speaker who shouted into a [...]
The Sri Lankan government must take action and accountability for conflict-related sexual violence, Amnesty International said Tuesday following the release of a report from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). In a statement, Amnesty International urged the government to “to end impunity and publicly commit to a timeline” for [...]
Friction is the difference between war on paper and war as it actually is. —Carl von Clausewitz, On War North Korea is not Venezuela. While US President Donald J. Trump characterized his recent military actions against Venezuela as “an assault like people have not seen since World War II,” that description was exaggeration prima facie. [...]
