JURIST Guest Columnist Greg Barns, Lecturer in Jurisprudence RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia) and Anna Talbot, Legal and Policy Adviser Australian Lawyers Alliance discuss the human rights of unwell asylum seekers at the refugee facility on Manus Island… On April 30th, the National Court of Papua New Guinea granted an urgent request for an injunction to [...]
Chinese human rights lawyers Xie Yang and Li Heping were released from prison Tuesday after being detained for nearly two years on charges of attempting to subvert the country’s ruling Communist Party. The two activists were originally rounded up in July of 2015, along with hundreds of other activists and lawyers, in the so-called “7-09 [...]
The Delaware House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday that would reinstate the death penalty. The House voted a 24-16 on House Bill 125, designated the Extreme Crimes Protection Act . The bill requires juries to unanimously agree that aggravating circumstances in a murder warrant a death sentence. Sponsors of the bill hope that [...]
US President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday. Trump said he acted under direction from both the Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. A letter written to former FBI Director states that his leadership was ineffective and that a new leader is needed to restore public trust and [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Mais Haddad, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, discusses laws in Arab countries that protect rapists and further oppress rape victims…. In the Arab world, women are under systematic discrimination socially, politically and economically. This discrimination is mirrored, deepened and embodied within the Arab countries’ legal systems. A quick study of these [...]
The Supreme Court of India on Monday found judge C.S. Karnan guilty of contempt and sentenced him to six months in jail. The court ordered the judge to be taken into custody immediately as “hosoever commits contempt gets punished.” The judge was set to retire in June, however, he will serve out the rest of [...]
Ireland Health Minister Simon Harris said Monday that the country’s blasphemy laws were “embarrassing” and called for their repeal. His comments follow the revelation that an investigation had been launched into British actor, Stephen Frye concerning comments he made on RTE in March of 2015. Harris said that the actor “regardless of your own religious [...]
Advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Monday that there are “systemic failures, such as unreasonable delays in care and unqualified medical staff leading to “dangerously subpar” medical care in US immigration detention centers. The group expressed concerns about the Trump administration’s plans to detain an even higher number of immigrants, which HRW believes will [...]
Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison after being found guilty of blasphemy by an Indonesian court . Ahok is Christian and the charges came as a result of his reference to a Qur’an verse used by conservative leaders to justify the claim that Muslims should not be [...]
Former acting US Attorney General Sally Yates testified before a Senate judiciary subcommittee on Monday stating that she had warned about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s vulnerabilities to blackmail by Russia less than a week after President Donald Trump assumed office. Flynn’s conversations with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to US was a primary [...]
