US President Joe Biden opined Friday without legal effect that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which ensures equal rights on the basis of sex, has been added to the Constitution as the 28th Amendment. In the statement, Biden said: It is long past time to recognize the will of the American people. In keeping with [...]
In 1996, when Professor Bernard Hibbitts first established JURIST, few could have foreseen the impact the project would have. Whether measured in terms of the individual lives it has touched, its global reach, or the impressions it has left on the landscape of online legal news coverage, JURIST’s role cannot be overstated. What began as [...]
South Korea’s Corruption Investigation Office for High Ranking Officials (CIO) on Friday filed a formal arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol with the Seoul Western District Court, according to local media. This is the first time in the history of Korea’s modern constitution that an arrest warrant for insurrection has been sought against [...]
The Islamabad Bench of Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau Court on Friday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to imprisonment for 14 and seven years, respectively, in a £190 million corruption case. The court earlier delayed the verdict amidst ongoing negotiations between Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insaaf (PTI) party and the ruling coalition [...]
Nineteen Armenian human rights NGOs and individual advocates on Friday jointly appealed to international organizations and foreign ambassadors in Azerbaijan, urging them to oversee the trials of Armenian detainees in Baku. Criminal hearings are currently underway in Baku involving former leaders of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. All the defendants, who are ethnic Armenians, face charges [...]
The US Supreme Court upheld the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” on Friday. This confirms that the application TikTok will be banned on Sunday. The act makes it unlawful for any entity to distribute a “foreign adversary controlled application” in the US. It explicitly singles out ByteDance Ltd, the parent company of TikTok. [...]
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) on Thursday, emphasizing its commitment to end the current military conflict in Sudan. OFAC sanctioned SAF commander Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, stating that the leader is “choosing war over good-faith negotiation and de-escalation.” OFAC also [...]
The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an appeal led by Indigenous elders who claimed that an under-renovation McGill University building contains Indigenous burial grounds. The Supreme Court’s rejection effectively permits McGill’s renovation of the building, which previously served as a psychiatric teaching hospital, to commence. The case arose after Historic Human Remains Detection Dogs discovered [...]
Amnesty International denounced Taiwan’s execution of Huang Linkai on Thursday, calling the event a “shameful setback” as it marked the first execution in Taiwan since 2020. Director of Amnesty International Taiwan E-Ling Chiu stated: “The execution of Huang Linkai (黃麟凱) was carried out in violation of constitutional and international safeguards on the use of the [...]
The South African Police Service confirmed the deaths of at least 78 people on Wednesday following the end of a rescue operation at an abandoned mine where miners, cut off from food and water, had been working illegally. The announcement relayed that the bodies of 78 miners had been retrieved, and a total of 246 [...]
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