On September 16, 2022, Iran’s Basij Resistance Force, a volunteer paramilitary organization that operates under the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, arrested Mahsa Amini for her refusal to comply with the country’s headscarf requirement, an alleged breach of its public morality code. Reports surfaced that the Basij severely beat Amini for resisting an officer’s insults, after which Amini [...]
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Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Rishabh Yadev, a postgraduate law student at the University of Delhi. Yesterday, September 29, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India headed by Hon’ble Justice D.Y. Chandrachud delivered a historic and progressive judgment on [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Akhil Kang, discusses a case in Punjab and Haryana High court where castrated cis-gendered men brought a criminal case against religious groups claiming that they were induced to undergo castration on the promise of attaining higher enlightenment......
JURIST Guest Columnist Abeer Hashayka, an LL.M. Candidate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2012, examines the treatment of Palestinian families at Israeli checkpoints and calls for safe, reliable access to hospitals and clinics during pregnancy...For...
UN General Assembly confirms South African as new UN human rights chief
The 192-member UN General Assembly Monday unanimously voted to approve South African judge Navanethem Pillay as the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, replacing departing commissioner Louise Arbour . UN Secretary General Ban...
Federal judge rules Padilla military prison staff must testify in competency hearing
US District Judge Marcia Cooke ruled Friday that US military lawyer, prison doctors and staff must testify at a hearing next week concerning the treatment of Jose Padilla while under military custody....