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An Iranian appeals court has upheld a one-year prison term for British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on propaganda offenses, according to her lawyer. Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a dual British and Iranian citizen who before her arrest lived in London with her husband Richard Ratcliffe. She previously worked with international development charities through BBC and Thompson Reuters. [...]

Former Taliban commander Haji Najibullah has pleaded not guilty in US federal court Friday to murdering three US soldiers In Afghanistan in 2008, according to Reuters. Najibullah entered the plea in a Manhattan federal court after the prosecutor unveiled the new charges last week. Haji had previously been accused of kidnapping New York Times Journalist David [...]

Nippon Steel filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that Toyota Motor infringed on a patent for non-oriented magnetic steel sheets used in electric vehicles. The Japanese steelmaker is suing for compensation totaling 20 billion yen ($177 million). Nippon has also named public-listed Chinese steelmaker Baoshan Iron & Steel in the lawsuit for producing and supplying the allegedly [...]

The US has been elected into a 3-year term to the UN Human Rights Council by the UN General Assembly. The US ran unopposed in the election session and received 168 votes out of all 193 members in the General Assembly. The election occurred on Thursday in the Human Rights Council Office located in Geneva. The [...]

The Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) found on Wednesday that the app store rules by Apple are anti-competitive due to regulations requiring software developers to use Apple’s in-app payments, according to a report by Reuters. The US company’s policy requires app developers to use their in-app functions, which can have commissions up to [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, ruled Tuesday that the city of Oakland, California, cannot sue Wells Fargo for violating the Fair Housing Act (FHA) because the city did not adequately show proximate causation. The court’s decision reverses the prior decision of its three-judge panel. Oakland had claimed that [...]

Rights groups on Friday called for the immediate release of Sosthene Kambidi, a journalist arrested on terrorism charges in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kambidi works for Congolese news site Actualite.cd and sometimes works with international press agencies such as Reuters and RFI. Kambidi accompanied several other journalists on a reporting trip in March 2017 [...]

Google LLC on Friday filed a writ petition against the Competition Commission of India (CCI) in the Delhi High Court for the alleged leak of a confidential report. The report was prepared after a two-year investigation ordered by the CCI in April 2019 over concerns pertaining to Google’s alleged abuse of its dominant position in [...]

Guinean President Alpha Conde was overthrown and the country’s constitution dissolved in an apparent military coup early Sunday morning. A group of special forces soldiers appeared on state television to reveal that President Conde had been detained and an interim government was to be formed under former French legionnaire Mamady Doumbouya. The group explained that [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a lawyer in Kabul with experience in the country’s financial sector offers his observations and perspective on the circumstances facing the country’s banks and banking system under the [...]