The UK Government formally acknowledged on Tuesday that atrocities committed against the Yazidi people in 2014 by Daesh, commonly known as ISIS, constituted genocide. The UK government’s statement follows a January 2023 German Federal Court of Justice ruling which found a former Daesh fighter guilty of acts of genocide and crimes against humanity. The determination by the UK [...]
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UK terrorism survivors say compensation scheme is 'broken' and in need of reform
A survey of terrorism survivors in the UK released Monday found that many survivors believe that the government’s terrorism compensation scheme is broken. In the survey, the advocacy group Survivors Against Terror found most respondents are unhappy with the Ministry of Justice’s Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA). The survey interviewed more than 130 survivors of [...]
Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. On Sunday, March 26, the High Commissioner of Canada was summoned by India to convey the nation’s growing concerns after the Indian consulate in Vancouver was [...]
British and French leaders agree on measures aimed at stopping cross-Channel migration
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron Friday agreed on a multi-million pound package of measures to stop migration across the Channel which will see a new detention centre established in France as well as the deployment of more French personnel and enhanced technology to patrol beaches in a shared effort to drive down illegal [...]
UN rights chief calls on China to revise counterterrorism practices after visit
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Saturday raised concerns that China’s counter-terrorism measures in the province of Xinjiang may violate human rights and publicly called on the country to review these measures, which some have said target the country’s Uyghur minority. Bachelet’s statement follows her visit to Xinjiang amid new accusations of state [...]
Where International Justice is Failing the Uyghurs, Economic Tactics Can Advance Real Change
Between one and three million Uyghurs and other members of Muslim minority groups, including Kazakhs and Kyrgyz, have reportedly been detained in some 1,200 hastily built re-education camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of Western China since 2017. Reports of arbitrary detention, forced labor, sterilization, sexual abuse and extrajudicial killings are rife. The [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – A coalition of international legal advocates sent a joint letter Saturday to Professor Mary Lawlor, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, condemning the growing trend of government officials intimidating and endangering the legal representatives of politically controversial clients. They also called for greater protections to be granted to advocates, the [...]
On September 9th, 2020, more than 100 lawmakers of the UK signed a letter addressed to the Chinese Ambassador, condemning China over the abuse of Uighur Muslims- one of the most sensitive topics of this era. China has detained around a million Uighur Muslims in their detention camps with the objective of teaching them Mandarin [...]
Is Chinese Draconian Security Law the Death Knell For Democracy In Hong Kong?
China has been embroiled in numerous controversies since the onset of 2020. It has received significant flack worldwide as a result of a failure to report to the World Health Organization about the existence and spread of the novel COVID-19, as well as for engaging in a tense diplomatic and military stand-off with its neighboring [...]
The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress in Beijing on Tuesday passed a new national security law (English) dramatically restricting freedom and autonomy within the region. The law remained unpublished until only an hour before it went into effect on Wednesday, and several arrests under the new regulations have already been made. Generally, the [...]