The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released a special report on Sunday detailing the human rights violations committed during attacks on the Mirza Olang village earlier this month. During the three-day event, Taliban and local Islamic State (IS) fighters reportedly killed at least 36 people in the predominantly Shi’ite Muslim village. Those killed included [...]
A Dhaka court on Sunday sentenced 10 individuals to death for plotting to bomb a rally held by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2000. According to prosecutors, members of the Harkatul Jihad-al-Islami group planted two bombs at the rally’s college campus location just one day before Hasina was scheduled to arrive. The group’s former leader, [...]
Chile’s Constitutional Court on Monday approved legislation that would legalize abortion in certain circumstances. The bill, approved by the Chilean Congress earlier this month, would allow abortions in instances of rape, threat to the mother’s health, and fetal abnormality “incompatible with life.” President Michelle Bachelet had pledged to sign the bill into law, but conservative [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Md Tabish Eqbal of South Asia University discusses why India should reconsider its initial objections to ratifying the 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions… Like many other branches of international law, International Humanitarian Law (IHL) grew exponentially after World War II, with a view toward expanding the scope of the protection [...]
Myanmar’s parliament amended the 2013 Telecommunications Law on Friday amidst growing concerns regarding the freedom of expression. The new law permits judges to release people on bail, allows only those directly affected, or with permission from those directly affected, by the offense to press charges, and reduces the maximum prison sentence to two years. However, [...]
Three democracy activists were jailed on Thursday for participating in the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, which lead to thousands of Hong Kong citizens protesting on Sunday in opposition of their imprisonment. Joshua Wong, Nathan Law, and Alex Chow were convicted to be imprisoned for six to eight months for the charge of unlawful assembly. According [...]
A former inmate of the White County Jail, Christel Ward, filed suit in the US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee , Northeastern Division on Thursday claiming that her constitutional rights had been violated when she was offered free birth control in exchange for a promised sentence reduction. Ward claims that she still [...]
The El Salvador Legislative Assembly unanimously voted on Thursday to eliminate a law that allowed men to marry minors that they had impregnated. The legal age to marry in El Salvador was 18 even before this change. But, a 23-old exceptional rule allowed those under 18 to wed with parental consent. That exception has been [...]
Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: Venezuela’s new chief prosecutor announced plans on Thursday to pursue and imprison those responsible for leading violent protests that have plagued the country since April. The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday found that a Malian jihadist is liable for individual and collective reparations for overseeing [...]
Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: A married same-sex couple filed a lawsuit against a former employer on Thursday in the US District Court for the Central District of California that alleges the company discriminated by refusing to provide spousal health insurance. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday announced a [...]
