A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Monday granted a preliminary injunction to the Commonwealth of Virginia, saying the state does not have to uphold President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting immigration. The judge walked through Trump’s public statements on a potential “Muslim ban” and said the evidence [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington on Monday determined that a lawsuit regarding President Donald Trump’s immigration executive order can proceed in district court while the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit hears the appeal of a temporary injunction on the ban. District Judge James Robart [...]
Tunisian security forces have committed human rights abuses following a series of armed attacks in the country, Amnesty International (AI) reported Monday. In 2015 Tunisia passed a new counter-terrorism law in an attempt remove powers given to the deposed Ben Ali regime to stop peaceful protests. AI believes this that this new law has too [...]
A judge in Kenya has sentenced the leaders of the doctors’ union to one month in prison over an ongoing strike.. The strike, which was started by the union over pay and service conditions, has continued since December. Judge Hellen Wasilwa had initially handed a one-month suspended sentence in January, stating that the doctors had [...]
Myanmar officials stated on Monday that they would investigate whether police have committed crimes against Rohingya Muslims. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) found in a recent report that Myanmar security forces had committed mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya Muslims. The police have allegedly been burning down villages [...]
The Syrian government has conducted “coordinated chemical attacks” on the rebel controlled portions of Aleppo, Human Rights Watch (HRW) alleged Monday. On the basis of interviews, video footage and social media posts, HRW concluded that the Assad regime dropped chlorine in residential areas at least eight times in November and December. HRW reported nine total [...]
Lee Jae-yong (Jay Y Lee) , unofficial head of South Korean giant Samsung, faced questioning from Seoul prosecutors Monday. Though a court in January refused to issue a warrant for his arrest, prosecutors have continued to investigate Lee’s connection to impeached South Korean president Park Guen-hye. Lee, who governs Korean business giant Samsung in his [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile of the University of Arkansas School of Law discusses the implications of massive agribusiness mergers in relation to eradicating world hunger … Cross-border and multijurisdictional mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, and strategic alliances are all the rage today. For instance, on April 12, 2017, European Union regulators will [...]
Australia’s offshore detention of asylum seekers constitutes a human rights violation, according to a petition filed Monday in the International Criminal Court (ICC) by a coalition of legal experts. The 108-page document, submitted to the ICC by the Global Legal Action Network (Glan) and the Stanford International Human Rights Clinic , urges the ICC prosecutor [...]
The US Department of Justice on Friday withdrew its appeal of an injunction preventing the Obama administration’s guidance that schools should allow transgender students to use the restroom of their choosing. The guidance stated that transgender students were protected under Title IX. A hearing was set for next Tuesday in the US Court of Appeals [...]
