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Kagusthan Ariaratnam, a former child soldier turned defense analyst, speaks with JURIST about his new memoir Spy Tiger: The 05 File. The book, co-written with Michael Bramadat-Willcock, details Ariaratnam’s experiences during the Sri Lankan civil war (1983-2009). Forcibly recruited by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a youth, Ariaratnam later became an informant [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated on Wednesday that the simultaneous detonation of thousands of communication devices across Lebanon and Syria violated customary international law. Thousands of pagers exploded on Tuesday, killing 12 and injuring more than 2,000 people. Walkie-talkie explosions on Wednesday killed an additional 25 and injured at least 600. The devices were evidently [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated on Wednesday that Islamist groups in Burkina Faso have intensified their attacks on civilians, resulting in a surge of violence and fatalities amid the ongoing conflict between these groups and the Burkinabe government. According to HRW, over 6,000 deaths as a result of the conflict have been documented in the first [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday issued a statement urging Indian authorities to end the ongoing repression of dissent in Jammu and Kashmir. Wednesday marks the first day of region-level elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the first which have been held in 10 years. The election is to be held across three phases, where the last phase [...]

A United Nations report stated Tuesday that the Venezuelan authorities’ repression of the protests following the July 28 elections reached an unprecedented level of violence, including the commission of human rights violations. The report was conducted by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Republic of Venezuela and examined the human rights situation in the [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday condemned the arrest of at least 97 opposition members in Tunisia last week, asserting that authorities have escalated their crackdown on civil society ahead of the country’s presidential elections on October 6. The rights group found that at least 97 members of the opposition group Ennahda were arrested on September 12 [...]

Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in or affecting Perú. All of them are from CIED (Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho, a student research center in UNSAAC’s faculty of law dedicated to spreading legal information [...]

The government of Canada announced the expansion of sanctions against Iran due to involvement in “terrorism and systematic and gross human rights violations” on Sunday, effectively barring anyone who has served as a senior government official in Iran since 2019 from entering Canada. This measure enhances the previous sanctions against the Iranian regime which were [...]

The Hong Kong Court of Appeal on Friday reduced the sentences of four Hong Kong University Student Union (HKUSU) leaders who were convicted of glorifying a person who attacked police officers, according to local media. The court reduced their 24-month jail terms to 15 months. The four former student leaders—Charles Kwok Wing-ho, Kinson Cheung King-sang, [...]

The Special Prosecution of Kosovo announced Wednesday that it has indicted 45 individuals for terrorism and other serious crimes related to an attack in the northern village of Banjska in September 2023. The charges follow an extensive investigation into an armed incursion by ethnic Serbs that resulted in the deaths of four people, including a [...]