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Marissa Zupancic is JURIST’s Washington DC Correspondent, a JURIST Senior Editor and a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She’s stationed in Washington during her Semester in DC. This week I attended a talk hosted by Georgetown University entitled “Kurds in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Türkiye: At the Epicenter of Conflict in the [...]

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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 [...]

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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged Taliban authorities in an official statement on Friday to immediately and unconditionally release three journalists apprehended in the provinces of Nangarhar, Paktia, and Kunduz. On Thursday, Haseeb Hassas, a correspondent employed by Salam Watandar radio stationed in the northern province of Kunduz, was taken into custody. Simultaneously, Faqir [...]

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Iran executed three men accused of carrying out a terrorist attack during last year’s nationwide protests surrounding the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. According to Mizan, a state-run news agency for Iran’s judiciary, Iranian officials executed Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeed Yaghoubi based upon their conviction on charges of moharebeh, or enmity against god. [...]

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Afghan law students and young lawyers in Afghanistan have been reporting on the ground from that country since the Taliban took Kabul in August 2021. Here, one of our correspondents in Kabul files a dispatch on an explosion at an education institute earlier today that killed over 20 people, most of whom were female students.  [...]

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Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a law student in Kabul reports on new foreign influences in Afghanistan and growing signs of corruption and hypocrisy in the Taliban government that run contrary to their long-stated values. For privacy and security reasons, [...]

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The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Thursday designated senior Houthi military leader Saleh Mesfer Alshaer. OFAC added Alshaer to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) list, which generally blocks designated persons’ assets and prohibits US persons from dealing with them. In an accompanying press release, OFAC Director [...]

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