Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Monday for the government of Myanmar to “urgently endorse an independent, international investigation into alleged abuses” against the Rohingya Muslim population, including sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls. According to survivor testimony, the Myanmar army and members of the Border Guard Police “took part in rape, gang rape, invasive [...]
Saudi Arabia has intensified its arrests and convictions of human rights advocates and dissenting writers in 2017, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Monday. In January a Saudi court sentenced two human rights activists to long prison terms following allegations of contact with international human rights organizations and media. Two other men, Ahmed al-Musheikhis and [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Fahira Brodlija of The University of Pittsburgh School of Law, LLM Class of 2017, discusses the implications of revising a lawsuit between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia…According to the former prosecutor of The Hague International Criminal Court (ICC), Geoffrey Nice, there is new evidence based on which Bosnia and Herzegovina could seek [...]
Romania’s Justice Minister Florin Iordache, the man who originally introduced the corruption decree that sparked large protests , announced on Monday morning that he would soon publish details of an alternative bill to update the criminal code. However, confusion surrounds the announcement as shortly after Iordache’s announcement the Justice Ministry issued a statement that there [...]
A report released Monday by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse revealed that 4,444 people alleged sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Australia between January 1985 and February 2015. Looking at data going back to 1950, the study found that 7 percent of all priests in Australia were accused in sexual [...]
The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit received two separate filings Monday from officials in the public and private sectors who oppose President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration. The appellate court is considering a district judge’s ruling that temporarily suspended the order. In a declaration to the court , 10 former [...]
China said Sunday it would begin imposing harsh punishments on those involved with illegal financing activities, with a particular focus on underground banking and the stock market, following a string of scandals. In particular, the state news agency released statements that the government would start to “put the prevention of financial risk in an even [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Friday ordered Google to disclose certain information found in foreign-stored e-mails, as requested by an FBI search warrant. This decision conflicts with a previous Second Circuit Court ruling, which was most recently denied a rehearing . By virtue of the way [...]
The government of Romania on Saturday repealed a decree enacted earlier in the week that had decriminalized corruption offenses and official misconduct in which the damages were less than €44,000. Since the enactment, protesters had taken to the streets to criticize the decree and to demand the government step down, resulting in some of the [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Saturday denied the Trump administration’s motion to reinstate immigration restrictions until the case could be heard by the court. The emergency motion to reinstate the immigration restrictions was filed by the Trump administration on Friday, arguing that only the president can decide who can enter [...]
