India’s National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) recommended Friday the imposition of President’s rule in West Bengal state in its report to India’s President Droupadi Murmu after allegations surfaced of multiple sexual assaults in the state perpetrated by a member of the ruling state party Trinamool Congress (TMC). President’s rule is when a state government [...]
Zimbabwean Vice President Constantino Chiwenga warned young people in the country on Thursday that the government will block all higher education scholarships from LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations. In his statement, Chimwenga denounced LGBTQ+ organizations’ scholarships as “unlawful” and a move by “foreign interests” to recruit less privileged students into “lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual activities.” He went [...]
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear an appeal from Derek Lee, a man convicted of second-degree murder who is challenging the state’s law requiring mandatory life prison sentences for those found guilty of the offense who did not intend to kill. The court granted Lee’s petition for an appeal on the [...]
The UK Central Criminal Court handed down its sentence Friday in the landmark female genital mutilation (FGM) case against defendant Amina Noor for carrying out an FGM procedure on a UK citizen oversees, sentencing Noor to 7 years imprisonment. The victim of the crime, under the alias of Jade for her protection, was three years [...]
Leading technology corporations such as Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok convened at the Munich Security Conference on Friday to announce a voluntary commitment aimed at safeguarding democratic elections from the disruptive potential of artificial intelligence tools. The initiative, which was joined by 12 additional companies such as Elon Musk’s X, introduces [...]
Judge Arthur Engoron of the New York Supreme Court found former president Donald Trump liable for falsifying business records, issuing false financial statements and conspiracy to commit fraud and insurance fraud on Friday, fining Trump and his business nearly $355 million, subject to interest. Trump was also banned from serving as an officer in any New York [...]
Saint Vincent and the Grenadine’s High Court upheld laws criminalizing gay sex on Friday, met with sadness and criticism from LGBTQ+ activists. The ruling was delivered by Justice Esco Henry, who found that the laws are “reasonably required” to protect public health and morality, particularly the country’s HIV rates. In light of the southern Caribbean [...]
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan appealed his conviction in three controversial cases on Friday. Two of the three appeals were reportedly filed in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad’s High Court, while the other was filed in Sessions Court, a criminal court subordinate to the High Courts. Khan’s defense lawyer Latif Khosa talked to the press and [...]
JURIST Editorial Director Ingrid Burke Friedman and JURIST Assistant Editor Samara Baboolal contributed to this report. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday ordered Israel to implement a set of provisional measures aimed at preventing the genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as Israel appears to be preparing a ground invasion of Rafah. [...]
US President Joe Biden said Friday that he was unsurprised but outraged to learn of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, adding the US was considering a “whole number of options” in response. During a press conference called to address Navalny’s death in a remote prison colony, Biden lauded the opposition figure, who [...]
