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Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Kenya.  On Friday last week, police in Kenya’s southeastern Kilifi County, north of Mombasa, launched an investigation into the Good News International Church and its leader. This was after they had received a tip from locals, as well as a community-based NGO that there were people of [...]

The family of a 29-year-old man who was killed as a result of a police beating during a traffic stop in January filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday against the City of Memphis, its police department, and the officers involved. In January, five officers performed a traffic stop on Tyre Nichols and brutally beat him after [...]

On April 7, US District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued an order suspending the FDA’s approval of mifepristone based on a lawsuit filed against the FDA by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine — an organization comprising four anti-abortion medical associations, and four anti-abortion doctors. The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit then partially blocked [...]

An 84-year-old Kansas City man turned himself in Tuesday after being formally charged on Monday for shooting a black teenager who rang his doorbell. The Clay County Sheriff’s Department tweeted that “Andrew Lester, charged in the shooting of Ralph Yarl, has surrendered at our Detention Center. He is in custody.” Lester is facing two felony [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear a case that asks if extended solitary confinement is a violation of the Eighth Amendment to the country’s constitution. In Hope v. Harris, the petition for the plaintiff described the solitary confinement of Dennis Wayne Hope since 1994 following an escape attempt from prison. For almost 30 years, [...]

Oklahoma’s governor called for the resignation of four McCurtain County officials Suday for their alleged participation in a secretly recorded audio conversation where they allegedly discussed killing two reporters. One also mentioned the lynching of Black people. Governor Kevin Stitt in a released statement said: I am both appalled and disheartened to hear of the [...]

Alexander Csergo, a Sydney man, Friday was arrested by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) for alleged foreign interference under a Counter Foreign Interference Taskforce Investigation, established in collaboration with the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and introduced under the National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Bill.  The AFP alleged “On a number of occasions [...]

Last week, the national union representing waste and sanitation workers in France gave notice of an encore round of strikes set to start the day before the next step of the unpopular retirement reform’s legislative process: this Friday, April 14, the Conseil constitutionnel is expected to either validate or suppress all or some of the bill that had [...]

Oksana Bidnenko is a staff correspondent for JURIST. She is a Ukrainian law student at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Riga, Latvia, and is currently an exchange student at the University of Oslo, Norway.  Last Saturday, April 1, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), Metropolitan Pavel, was [...]

A French court Monday began hearing the criminal trial of Lebanese-Canadian Hassan Diab, who is accused of committing the 1980 bombing of the Copernic synagogue. The trial is expected to last three weeks and will be conducted in abstentia, meaning Diab will not be present for the trial. The bombing, which took place on October [...]