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Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced Friday that a leaked database provided evidence of mass human rights abuses in El Salvador, including due process violations, extreme prison overcrowding, and deaths in custody. The database, likely obtained from the Ministry of Public Safety, is said to contain the names, ages, and genders of those prosecuted during the [...]

Belarusian law students enrolled at European Humanities University are filing reports with JURIST on current circumstances in Belarus under the constitutionally-disputed presidency of Alexander Lukashenka. Here, one of them discusses the circumstances of three women currently held as political prisoners in Belarus. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding the name of the correspondent [...]

Yael Iosilevich is a law student in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and JURIST’s Staff Correspondent in Israel.  Today, Saturday 21 January, an estimated one hundred thousand Israelis marched through Tel Aviv in a mass protest. Banging drums and kitchenware, holding signs, waving the flag of Israel, and singing “Israel is [...]

Amnesty International Monday condemned the death sentences of 54 individuals linked by Algerian prosecutors to the lynching of activist Djamel Ben Smail amid wildfires in the Kabylie region in August 2021. Amnesty alleged that numerous fair trial violations occurred during the mass proceedings in November 2022. Amnesty also raised alarm about claims of torture and [...]

On December 22, 2022, the US House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol released its 845-page Final Report. The Report described events leading up to, during, and in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. It also set out information about the individuals who were involved [...]

A Michigan federal judge Wednesday sentenced Barry Croft Jr. to 235 months in prison following his conviction of conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Following this 19 year sentence, Croft must complete five years of supervised release. A jury convicted Croft on charges of conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass [...]

A court in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein Tuesday convicted Irmgard Furchner, 97, for aiding and abetting murder while working as a secretary at the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp. Furchner worked at Stutthof between June 1, 1943, and April 1, 1945. While she was employeed, authorities committed “cruel, systematic acts of killing” through gassings, hostile [...]

The judiciary of Iran Monday announced the execution of protester Majidreza Rahnavard, who was hanged publicly in Mashhad. Rahnavard was arrested 23 days ago, following his involvement with the nationwide protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini. According to Mizan, a state-linked news source for Iran’s judiciary, the Mashhad Revolutionary Court convicted Rahnavard of killing two [...]

Sixteen UN-appointed independent human rights experts Friday urged Iranian authorities to prohibit indicting people with charges punishable by death for participating in peaceful protests over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. Since Amini’s death in a Tehran hospital on September 16, protests have occurred in major cities throughout the country. On September 13, Mahsa Amini [...]

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Ciara Dinneny is a trainee with the Law Society of Ireland. She files this dispatch from Dublin. The Irish Government approved legislation last month that will provide for a payment scheme and [...]