Ernesa Shala is a JURIST staff correspondent in Kosovo and a recent graduate of the University of Pristina Faculty of Law. She files this dispatch from Pristina.   In the early morning of September 24, 2023, the peaceful village of Banjska near Kosovo’s Serbian border was a target of terrorist attacks which left one Kosovo [...]

Norwegian police arrested former commander of the Wagner Group, Andrey Medvedev, on Friday under suspicion of attempting to illegally cross the border into Russia, according to local Norwegian news site the Barents Observer. Earlier this year, Medvedev sought asylum in Norway. Norwegian police in Finnmark confirmed they had arrested a man attempting to cross the [...]

A US district judge struck down on Friday a California ban limiting gun magazines to ten rounds. In the decision, US District Judge Roger Benitez stated that the state’s prohibition of high-capacity magazines was a violation of the US Constitution’s Second Amendment and “clearly unconstitutional.” In defense of the ban, California offered two main positions. [...]

The Paris prosecutor’s office said in a statement Friday that they have requested a trial for over 20 National Rally (RN) members on suspicion of embezzling European public funds over 12 years, according to AFP. RN Leader Marine Le Pen and her father Jean-Marie Le Pen as well as other parliamentary assistants stand accused in [...]

Human rights advocate groups Article 19 and CIVICUS on Thursday released a joint statement expressing concern that peaceful protestors across Malaysia are being met with harassment from police. The statement has come in the wake of a series of protests in the region, which has included farmers protesting against land eviction policies, a ‘Save Malaysia’ [...]

A US military judge ruled on Thursday that Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a 9/11 defendant detained in US custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is unfit to stand trial. Military Judge Colonel Matthew N. McCall’s ruling comes after a medical panel found that al-Shibh has PTSD with “Secondary Psychotic Features” resulting from his abuse in Central Intelligence [...]

The Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi released a decree on Friday stating that asylum seekers will need to pay $5,259 (€4,938) to avoid being held at a detention center while their applications are reviewed. The decree called this plan a method of providing a financial guarantee to have the right to enter into Italy as [...]

Thousands of public sector workers in Greece took part in a strike on Thursday in opposition to new labor law put forth in the Hellenic Parliament. Workers including doctors, transport staff and firefighters protested in Athens, Greece to voice their objection. The new labor law, yet to be passed by Parliament, reportedly allow employers to [...]

On Thursday, the Federal Supreme Court of Brazil invalidated a legislative proposal 9-2 regarding the temporal boundaries for demarcating indigenous lands.  The judges ruled against the argument that the territory of indigenous peoples can only be demarcated if there is evidence of the requesting community’s existence as of the promulgation date of the Federal Constitution, i.e., [...]

The German interior ministry said that 90 Russian men of military age have been granted asylum in the country since Russia’s 2023 invasion of Ukraine, according to a Friday report from the German news outlet RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND). The news outlet obtained this information from the ministry’s answer to a question from lawyer and Bundesdag [...]