I was scrolling through Instagram stories when I came across a post by a man I knew, though not closely. Since the recent war and the growing fear that Donald Trump might destroy Iran, his attitude toward the Islamic Republic seemed to have changed. He had begun to defend the government, or at least to [...]
Eric Ngone is a member of the JURIST News staff and an occasional contributor based in Kenya. He is a fourth-year law student at Egerton School of Law. Kenya’s Mombasa Law Court has found controversial religious leader Paul Mackenzie guilty in a case involving the deaths of more than 190 children linked to the Shakahola [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk conveyed to the Committee on World Food Security on Monday that while legal instruments safeguarding the fundamental right to food have been strengthened in recent years, these theoretical protections have yet to manifest into access to adequate or consistent food for over a quarter of the world’s [...]
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday announced that state prosecutors have obtained an arrest warrant for former Cuban president Raúl Castro. Castro is charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection with a 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes flying over international waters. In a statement, Uthmeier said: Raúl Castro ordered the [...]
The UN warned on Monday that armed groups in Haiti are adapting their reprisals against civilians as security forces intensify their operations, which has exacerbated the security crisis and led to the indefinite postponement of legislative elections that had been scheduled for December 13. UN experts on Haiti presented a briefing to the UN Security [...]
Alexandra Bennett is JURIST’s Global Chief of Staff and an occasional contributor. She is a JD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she serves as a Senior Development Editor on Law Review, and is concurrently pursuing an LLM in International Business Law at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. At 9 a.m. [...]
Editor’s note: The author is a federal prisoner. The Fifth Circuit rejected his challenge to the stipulations in his case on Aug. 11, 2026, in an unpublished per curiam opinion (United States v. Castro, No. 24-11000). He has since submitted the Rule 23(d) proposal discussed here as Rules Suggestion 26-CR-39. Before a federal court accepts [...]
The US Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would revisit the issue of race as a factor in school admissions, often called affirmative action, three years after striking down affirmative action in higher education admissions. This time, the Court will hear a challenge to the admissions policies at a competitive “magnet” middle school in [...]
The UN on Monday condemned Israeli settlers for carrying out at least 160 attacks against Palestinians during the current olive harvest on the West Bank, damaging property, and conducting demolitions that forcibly displaced 96 Palestinians. The wave of attacks come a year after the ceasefire agreement for the Gaza Strip was brokered. Commenting on the [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear challenges to former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s withdrawal from plea agreements that would have spared three men accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks from the death penalty. The justices denied petitions from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Mustafa al Hawsawi, and a separate petition from [...]
