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Pouria Zeraati, an Iranian journalist and TV presenter at Iran International, was stabbed on Friday in front of his home in London. The channel’s spokesman, Adam Baillie, reported the journalist was the victim of “heavy death threats” and that Zeraati was “obviously shaken up but making a good recovery.” Iran International is a UK-based channel [...]

Norway announced Wednesday that it reached an agreement with the indigenous Sámi people after a three-year dispute over the construction of Europe’s largest onshore wind farm. The dispute centred on the fact that the partially state-owned wind farm on the Fosen peninsula was built on land that the Sámi people have used for centuries to [...]

Judge Arthur Engoron of the New York Supreme Court found former president Donald Trump liable for falsifying business records, issuing false financial statements and conspiracy to commit fraud and insurance fraud on Friday, fining Trump and his business nearly $355 million, subject to interest. Trump was also banned from serving as an officer in any New York [...]

Malaysia’s former finance minister, Tun Abdul Daim bin Zainuddin, was charged Monday for failing to comply with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) order to declare his assets. Zainuddin, along with his wife and two children, were requested in January 2024 to testify about “high-value assets” that are under their company’s name within and outside the country. Zainuddin, [...]

Norwegian authorities criminally charged 20 Indigenous Saami activists and supporters on Friday for blocking access to multiple government buildings in protest over the continued operation of wind turbines in the Fosen region. The operation occupies the same land as traditional reindeer herding grounds, despite a 2021 Norwegian Supreme Court ruling calling for an end to [...]

UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Liz Throssell expressed concern Tuesday over the detention of journalists in Kyrgyzstan. This comes after authorities from the State Committee for National Security and the Ministry of Interior searched independent media outlets and detained 14 journalists. According to Throssell, authorities from the State Committee for National Security detained 3 journalists [...]

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) said in a press release that it recorded the testimony of former prime minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob about the use of RM700 million in funds that were “spent for publicity and promotion purposes during the previous government’s administration” on Wednesday. The Keluarga Malaysia (Family Malaysia) program, launched by Ismail Sabri in [...]

The Directorate of Communications for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan released a statement Tuesday confirming the country would not allow two British military minehunter ships en route to Ukraine to travel through the Turkish Straits in keeping with the 1936 Montreux Convention. In the statement, the Directorate wrote, “Our pertinent allies have been duly apprised [...]

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), in a press release on Saturday, stated that it has initiated an investigation into a former finance minister and close ally of former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Abdul Daim bin Zainuddin, under the country’s laws related to abuse of power and money laundering. The MACC emphasized that it had [...]

Editors’ note: Amid surging violence between Hamas and Israeli forces, JURIST is seeking perspectives from around the world. Neither this nor other commentaries in this series constitute JURIST editorial policy, nor do they necessarily reflect the opinions of the editorial team. The 21st century is marked by globalization and Americanization, with transnational law under US [...]