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Iran executed Tuesday Mohammad Ghobadlou, a protester with a long-term psychosocial disability, for the alleged murder of a police officer during the 2022 Mahsa Amini protests. The Iranian judiciary’s news agency Mizan reported the execution. The Criminal Court of Tehran Province executed Ghobadlou after the Supreme Court of Iran confirmed Ghobadlou’s death sentence. Ghobadlou was [...]

Pakistan’s former information minister Fawad Chaudhry announced on Monday that he and his group would boycott Pakistan’s general elections in claiming that the electoral process was fake. Fawad left former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party following the arrest of Khan on May 9, 2023 over corruption charges. He was arrested on November [...]

United Nations human rights experts Monday hailed lawyers in Iran for their unwavering and courageous commitment to the rule of law ahead of the International Day of the Endangered Lawyer, which is observed January 24. The Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite, and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human [...]

JURIST Assistant Editor Fiona Tsamny | U. Ottawa Faculty of Law, CA also contributed to this report. Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, voted 382 to 234 to approve legislation Friday aimed at streamlining the path to citizenship for immigrants by abolishing long standing restrictions on holding dual nationalities. The law, championed by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s [...]

A court in Iran has handed an additional 15-month prison term to the convicted Nobel laureate and human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, according to a Monday Instagram post from the activist’s family. The additional jail term was given to Mohammadi for allegedly “spreading propaganda” against the Islamic Republic. The court reportedly based its decision on [...]

The Indian Supreme Court dismissed Tuesday a petition seeking the court’s intervention to increase undertrial prisoner visits to the prisons in Delhi, the capital of India. Undertrial prisoners are accused individuals who are kept in judicial, instead of police, custody while awaiting judicial proceedings on their charges. The petition was filed against the government’s limit [...]

The Hong Kong trial of prominent pro-democracy activist and media mogul Jimmy Lai has garnered widespread attention globally. Lai, a 76-year-old British citizen and high-profile critic of Beijing, faces national security charges, and his trial is expected to take months. Lai is a prominent figure in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. His detention and subsequent trial exemplify [...]

Hong Kong activist Chu Kai-poon pleaded guilty on Thursday to two counts of sedition at Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts. Chu was previously arrested on November 27 by national security police at the Hong Kong International Airport for wearing a shirt with “seditious wording.” He was then charged on November 29 with two counts [...]

The Delhi High Court dismissed a petition by Neelam Azad on Wednesday seeking her release from detention by Delhi Police. Azad is one of the accused persons in the recent Indian Parliament security breach case. A habeas corpus petition was filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, along with Section 482 of the [...]

India’s Patiala House Court on Tuesday reportedly directed the Delhi Police to file its response to the bail application of Neelam Azad, the only woman accused in last month’s Parliament security breach, by January 10. On December 13, a security breach took place in the lower house of India’s Parliament that coincided with the anniversary [...]