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Detained Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai’s international legal team filed an urgent appeal on Thursday with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The team alleged that the Chinese authorities tortured a key prosecution witness to coerce him into providing incriminating evidence [...]

On October 2, 2023, Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court granted a $360,000 reward to a whistleblower in a corruption case involving an attempted $6 million bribe—the biggest reported bribe attempt in Ukraine’s history. This reward marks the first payment to a whistleblower under the Law of Ukraine on the Prevention of Corruption, a major piece of [...]

The US Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to hear two cases regarding access to the drug mifepristone, which is widely prescribed for abortions and miscarriages. The court previously allowed the drug to remain on the market while the cases wound their way through the appellate process in the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth [...]

A US federal judge prohibited the practice of separating migrant children from their families for eight years on Friday following a settlement that will allow migrant children and their families, who were separated at the US-Mexico border, to be reunited. The “Mrs. L” deal, the result of a lawsuit against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement [...]

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce opened a formal investigation on Thursday into three of the US’s top universities’ and their responses to increasing antisemitism on campuses. The presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology previously appeared before a congressional committee for a hearing on December [...]

Ukrainian officials accused Russia Sunday of committing war crimes following the release of a video allegedly showing armed Russian soldiers shooting two unarmed Ukrainian soldiers, leading to the launching of an investigation by Ukrainian prosecutors. JURIST has reviewed the video footage, but out of respect for the victim and their families, we will not link [...]

A Texas federal court blocked administrative proceedings launched by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) against SpaceX over alleged discriminatory employment practices. The decision, announced on Wednesday, halts the DOJ’s proceedings, pending the resolution of a lawsuit filed by SpaceX in September. In an August complaint, the DOJ alleged that SpaceX violated Section 1324b of [...]

In June 2023, Kenyan High Court Judge Mugure Thande issued conservatory orders temporarily halting the implementation of the controversial 2023 2023 Finance Act. These orders were later upheld by Justice Thande in July, and the case was referred to Chief Justice,  Martha Koome, to empanel a bench for further proceedings. Subsequently, a 3-judge bench, led [...]

The Fifth Session of the Fourteenth National People’s Congress of China concluded on Friday. This assembly serves as the highest legislative body in the state, and its final resolutions entail modifications to existing legislative acts. During the session, 161 members of the Standing Committee were present, and the number of participants met the quorum requirement. [...]

UN experts condemned Monday the Russian Constitutional Court’s decision to dismiss challenges to the constitutionality of recently enacted laws that criminalize any public act seeking to discredit the use of Russian Armed Forces. In the wake of the Russia-Ukraine War, these new laws have been used by Russian authorities to arrest over 20,000 people for [...]