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The Viasna Human Rights Centre in Belarus reported on Monday that the prison term of Yuras Zyankovich, a Belarusian American lawyer, has been extended by two years, bringing his sentence to a total of 13 and a half years, amid Belarus’ ongoing suppression of political opposition. Zyankovich was detained and arrested in Moscow on April [...]

Ernesa Shala is a JURIST staff correspondent in Kosovo and a recent graduate of the University of Pristina Faculty of Law.   The much-anticipated trial of the individuals accused of orchestrating the 2023 terrorist attack in Banjska, in which poice Sergeant Afrim Bunjaku was killed, commenced on Wednesday at the Basic Court in Pristina. Defendants Blagoje [...]

The former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, filed an urgent appeal on Monday to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Judges and Lawyers Margaret Satterthwaite. The appeal addresses the independence of jurists under the constitutional amendments proposed by the current Pakistani government. Imran Khan’s appeal to the UN regards the government’s plan to amend [...]

Switzerland-based assisted suicide organization The Last Resort said Sunday that it has suspended applications amid a criminal investigation into the use of a suicide “capsule.” Swiss authorities detained the president of The Last Resort, Dr. Florian Willet, following the death of a 64-year-old woman from the US in late September, according to a statement from [...]

Former Singaporean transport minister S. Iswaran began his 12-month jail term on Monday after surrendering at the State Courts. Iswaran faced 35 charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) and section 165 of the Penal Code in a corruption case involving two prominent businessmen. However, during last month’s trial, the prosecutor amended the corruption [...]

A Russian prosecutor on Saturday requested a seven-year prison sentence for a 72-year-old US man accused of working as a mercenary for Ukraine, according to Interfax. The Moscow City Court is holding proceedings in the criminal case of Stefan Hubbard, who allegedly engaged in combat alongside the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) against the Russian [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron, speaking to public broadcaster France Inter on Saturday, announced that France should no longer deliver weapons to Israel and urged other countries to halt arms deliveries to Israel, citing the escalation of its attacks in Gaza and Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu rebuked Macron for the proposed arms embargo, noting that [...]

Three former Memphis police officers involved in the 2023 death of Tyre Nichols received a mixed verdict on Thursday. Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith faced charges of excessive force, failure to intervene, and obstruction of justice. Haley was found guilty on all counts, while Smith and Bean were acquitted of civil rights violations [...]

Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced on Thursday that the Prosecutor’s Office in the Volgograd region approved an indictment against Nikita Zhuravel, who was charged with treason under Article 275 of the Russian Criminal Code. The maximum penalty for treason under the Russian Criminal Code is life imprisonment. According to the Prosecutor’s Office investigation, Zhuravel offered [...]

The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) voted on Wednesday to formally recognize WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a political prisoner based on his time spent in UK custody while fighting extradition to the US on espionage charges. Assange has been free since June, when he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy for releasing troves of US classified documents [...]