United Nations human rights experts asked Iran on Tuesday to stay the execution of an offender who was 15 years old when he was sentenced to death. Abolfazl Chezani Sharahi was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 2014 after fatally stabbing a man in a fight. Article 91 of the 2013 Islamic Penal [...]

A coalition of human rights groups, including the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK (AOHR UK), Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign Against Arms Trade and Human Rights for Yemen, sent a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday urging her to cancel Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to [...]

Supreme Court dismissed Texas Democratic Party v. Abbott today, claiming want of jurisdiction. This dismissal may seem surprising, given that the Court has chosen to hear other gerrymandering cases this term. This past October the Supreme Court heard Gill v. Whitford, a redistricting action challenging a gerrymander claim in Wisconsin. In addition, two consolidated cases [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist, Curt Levey, of the Committee for Justice, discusses the implications of Kim Dotcom’s fight to avoid extradition from New Zealand to the US… Notorious Internet pirate Kim Dotcom suffered another legal setback last month in his fight to avoid extradition from New Zealand to the United States and hang on to his [...]

Here’s the international legal news we covered this week: The Luxembourg Court of Cassation on Thursday reversed the conviction of “LuxLeaks” whistleblower Antoine Deltour who had leaked thousands of documents revealing tax breaks for major companies. Eleven Guantánamo inmates filed a writ of habeus corpus in the United States District Court for the District of [...]

Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US Supreme Court added 12 cases to its docket on Friday, including two Texas redistricting cases. The court had previously blocked two lower court rulings that mandated the redrawing of Texas’ congressional and state legislative districts. A judge for the US District Court for the [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist William D. Araiza of the Brooklyn Law School discusses the lawsuit filed by Paul Manafort against Robert Mueller and the Department of Justice… Paul Manafort’s recent lawsuit challenging the legality of his indictment by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller raises a set of intriguing questions–not least about his attorney’s litigation choices. The lawsuit [...]

The US Supreme Court added 12 cases to its docket on Friday, including two Texas redistricting cases. The court had previously blocked two lower court rulings that mandated the redrawing of Texas’ congressional and state legislative districts. The court has now added the cases, both called Abbott v. Perez, to its merits docket, consolidating them [...]

Germany’s highest federal court on Thursday overturned a lower federal court’s acquittal of seven men charged with violating Germany’s ban on wearing uniforms in public that convey a political message. In November 2016, seven men were arrested while they “patrolled” the streets of downtown Wuppertal, purportedly attempting to enforce strict interpretations of Sharia law on [...]

The Luxembourg Court of Cassation on Thursday reversed the conviction of “LuxLeaks” whistleblower Antoine Deltour who had leaked thousands of documents revealing tax breaks for major companies. Deltour, an employee at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), disclosed tax agreements between PWC clients, many of them large multinational companies, and the Luxembourg Direct Tax Authority. He had received a [...]