South Korean police on Thursday arrested a large number of protesters demonstrating outside the Japanese embassy against the Japanese government’s dumping of treated radioactive water into the ocean. Japan has faced harsh... Read more »
Canada’s federal police service confirmed Wednesday that it has begun an assessment of whether to launch an investigation into the ongoing Ontario Greenbelt scandal after the matter was referred to the federal... Read more »
Two top lawyers for the UK government, Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk and Attorney General Victoria Prentis, ordered Thursday an independent inquiry into the handling of a case in which a man was... Read more »
The Brazil Senate’s Committee on Agriculture and Agrarian Reform (CRA) approved a bill on Wednesday that would establish a continuous residency requirement for the recognition of lands belonging to indigenous communities. The... Read more »
Amnesty International on Thursday called for the application of universal jurisdiction against members of the Taliban accused of crimes under international law. Universal jurisdiction in this case would give any country the... Read more »
A UN official expressed concern Wednesday over the recent wave of violence against justice officials in Ecuador. Margaret Satterthwaite, the UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, said that... Read more »
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that the state police (PSP) must disclose its social media monitoring policy to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Pennsylvania under the state’s right-to-know... Read more »
The leader and the alleged founder of powerful Russian mercenary group Wagner both died in a plane crash nearly two months after leading an attempted mutiny in Russia, the group and state... Read more »
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Izhar Ahmed Khan is a 2022 LL.B. graduate of the Pakistan College... Read more »
England and Wales banned the use of pain-inducing physical restraint last week in children’s prisons. Such techniques are to be “minimised and will only be used as a last resort where it... Read more »