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What makes someone qualified to rule? One way to answer this question might be to approach it from the Islamic perspective, that is, by considering the criteria required for someone to become a mujāthid, a person accepted as an authority in Islamic law. The criteria include knowledge of the Shārīe‘ā essential objectives – ‘religion, life, [...]

Following winning the Netherlands elections, Geert Wilders, a politician known for his far-right stances, retracted a controversial bill he initially proposed in 2018. The bill, which called for a ban on mosques and the Quran, has been completely withdrawn by Wilders as of Monday. The proposed legislation seeks to outlaw practices and symbols associated with [...]

The Taliban have arrested women in Afghanistan for wearing “bad hijab” for the first time since coming to power, according to voice notes received Thursday by the AP from a spokesperson from the Taliban government’s Vice and Virtue Ministry. A year after they took power in 2021, the Taliban issued a strict dress code. Spokesperson [...]

A Bangladeshi female factory worker died Wednesday during protests by workers over pay. Though she was not taking part in the demonstration, police in Gazipur, Bangladesh shot garment worker Anjuara Khatun. Anjuara worked at a garment factory in the Zarun area of Konabari, Gazipur. Her workplace closed early on Wednesday as a result of the [...]

In his inaugural video report, JURIST Bangladesh Staff Correspondent Ahmad Rayhan Farhi, a law student at Dhaka University, describes his home country as a land of contradictions, many of which reflect, affect or implicate the law. The video below is followed by a lightly edited transcript of the dispatch.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLcfF6q5frw Bangladesh is a country that [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a young lawyer reports on a new Taliban decree issued Saturday on the wearing of hijabs by Afghan women. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our correspondent’s name. The text has only been [...]

India and Australia Saturday signed an economic pact, entitled “The India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement” (IndAus ECTA), that will eliminate tariffs on over 85 percent of Australian good exports to India. Prime Minister Modi of India remarked that this agreement will contribute to the stability of the Indo-Pacific region. The free trade agreement is anticipated [...]

From New Delhi, India Chief Correspondent Neelabh Bist is inspired by the yearly Holi festival to reflect on the courage shown by JURIST law student correspondents and reporters standing up for truth around the world.  This past Friday, India celebrated its festival of colours – Holi. But beyond the wide palette of colours which fill [...]

Sri Lanka’s cabinet on Tuesday approved the proposal to ban all kinds of face veils, including burqas, in public places due to threats to “national security.” The approval comes a month after the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution “to promote reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka.” Based on a UN report [...]

Much controversy surrounds the use of the flags associated with the Sri Lankan people, mainly because they are loaded with ethnic symbolism in a country recovering from a generation-long civil war along ethno-nationalist lines. The flags of concern here all feature big cats as central to their designs. Big cats, wherever they occur, have been [...]