Thousands marched in Mexico City on Monday to protest the death of Jesús Ociel Baena, a prominent LGBTQ+ activist and also Mexico’s first non-binary magistrate. Baena was found dead, along with their partner, on Monday morning. According to state prosecutor Jesús Figueroa Ortega, there was no evidence of a third party entering their house, and [...]

A Kyiv court ordered a 60-day detention for Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksandr Dubinsky on Tuesday. Dubinsky will be held on suspicion of treason. The politician is known for being on the US sanctions list, his connections to former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his vocal criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to the SBU, Ukraine’s [...]

Hong Kong lawyer Jimmy Siu on Friday filed a writ to Hong Kong’s High Court in a petition for the court to order the arrest of five US lawmakers that introduced the Hong Kong Sanctions Act, according to Hong Kong Free Press on Monday. In his writ, Siu requested that the court permit all individuals [...]

A comprehensive US government climate report released Tuesday confirmed that extreme weather linked to climate change is worsening despite drops in US greenhouse gas emissions. The report urged further action to mitigate potentially catastrophic consequences across the country. The Fifth National Climate Assessment report comes amid a rash of extreme weather events that have affected [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) raised concerns on Tuesday about a new vehicle tracking system in Uganda. In a statement, the organization said that the system “which allows the government to track the real time location of all vehicles in the country, undermines privacy rights, and creates serious risks to the rights to freedom of association [...]

James Joseph is JURIST’s UK Senior Editor and a Ph.D. student at King’s College London. In a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Tuesday, former Home Secretary Suella Braverman launched a withering attack on the PM’s ability to uphold law and order, presenting the most pressing challenge to his premiership to date. This comes off [...]

While the development of regions requires stability, peace, and security, the presence of numerous non-state armed groups in the West Asia region, each supported by one or more regional countries from east to west, has added complexity to the political landscape. Essentially, one of the dilemmas in this region is the disorder and Dionysian spirit [...]

The UK Ministry of Justice released a report on Monday detailing its responses to human rights issues flagged by judgments in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and its domestic courts. The report also addressed outstanding issues such as concerns with the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023, human rights issues in [...]

A British man suspected of being a member of an ISIS death squad known as “the Beatles” was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday for possession of a firearm and two charges of funding terrorism. The man, Aine Davis, was sentenced at the Old Bailey for the three offences, which date back to 2013 [...]

India’s Home Ministry on Monday extended a ban against seven Meitei extremist groups that advocate the secession of Manipur, a small state in northeastern India. The ministry, through a notification, listed the seven organizations: the Peoples’ Liberation Army (PLA) and its political wing, the Revolutionary Peoples’ Front (RPF); the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) and [...]