UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a statement through his spokesman on Friday condemning the escalating violence between Israelis and Palestinians in the Old City of Jerusalem. Ongoing clashes between the two groups have left three Palestinian men dead in East Jerusalem, while three Israelis were stabbed to death in a West Bank settlement overnight. In [...]
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky issued an order Friday holding the state of Kentucky responsible for attorneys’ fees related to litigation involving a county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Two years after Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis defied the US Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell [...]
Abortion rights groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday that seeks an injunction against against a Texas law that bans a common method of second-trimester abortions. The complaint was filed in response to Senate Bill 8 , which was signed in law in June by Texas Governor Greg Abbott . The bill bans second trimester dilation [...]
JURIST Guest Columnists, David M. Crane, of Syracuse University School of Law, and Richard Goldstone, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, discuss the widespread implications of the US decision to close the Office of Global Criminal Justice… With the raspy barking of a US President in the background trying to “Make America [...]
Amnesty International (AI) accused Cameroon of torturing suspected supporters of Boko Haram in a report released Thursday. According to the human rights organization, hundreds of suspects were “subjected to severe beatings, agonizing stress positions and drownings, with some tortured to death” at the hands of government authorities. AI documented 101 cases of secret detention and [...]
Thailand’s Supreme Court sentenced opposition leader Jatuporn Prompan to one year in prison for defaming Thailand’s current prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva . Jatuporn, a leader of the “red shirt” opposition party, which supports two of Thailand’s formerly ousted prime ministers, was convicted for calling Abhisit a “murderer” during a rally. Abhisit said that Jatuporn’s statement [...]
The Polish Parliament approved a bill on Thursday that will implement sweeping reforms to the country’s judicial system. Most notably, the bill will allow members of parliament to appoint Supreme Court judges, a move that the EU, many Polish lawyers, and citizens of Poland strongly opposed. The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party pushed the [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) together with the FBI have seized and shut down AlphaBay, a criminal marketplace on the “dark web” on Thursday. The site, which has reportedly been operating on the dark web for the last two years, was used to sell numerous illicit products including illegal narcotics, computer hacking tools, malware, [...]
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday reversed the Trial Chamber’s “Decision on Laurent Gbagbo Detention,” thereby ordering continued detention until the Trial Chamber carries out a new review of his release. As the former Ivory Coast president, Gbagbo has been detained since 2011 and currently faces charges for crimes against [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that it is reviving a provision of the federal civil asset forfeiture program, which was suspended in September 2015. The DOJ is reviving a portion of this program in response to President Donald Trump’s order to reduce crime because asset forfeiture diminishes organized crime. Attorney General [...]
