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Fijian President Ratu Wiliame Katonivere has called for “respect for our region” and an end to missile testing in the Pacific following China’s recent launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Speaking at the UN General Assembly on Thursday, Katonivere reminded the world of the Pacific Ocean’s troubling history as a nuclear weapons testing ground. [...]

Failed Fijian coup leader George Speight and six others were released from prison on Thursday after being granted a pardon by President Ratu Wiliame Katonivere, who acted on the advice of Fiji’s Mercy Commission. The president approved Speight’s release after the Mercy Commission recommended a pardon based on his behavior in prison and the length [...]

In the second part of a two-part interview, JURIST’s Managing Editor for Long Form Content James Joseph interviews Professor David M. Crane, the Founding Chief Prosecutor of the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, on solutions and next steps to stabilize the conflict in Ukraine. Since this interview was undertaken, the US and Germany made [...]

Free speech organization Article 19 released its 2024 Global Expression Report (GER) on Tuesday showing that more than half of the world’s population is “living through a freedom of expression crisis,” unable to speak freely. In 2023, the percentage of people living in this crisis rose to 53 percent, or about 4 billion people. This [...]

Fiji’s High Court sentenced former Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama to one year of imprisonment on Thursday after finding him guilty of perverting the course of justice, according to a statement published by the country’s Director of Public Prosecution. Frank Bainimarama was sentenced alongside suspended Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho for using their positions and power to stop [...]

Fiji’s former Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama on Thursday was granted “absolute discharge” by the Magistrates Court, after previously being handed a guilty verdict by the country’s High Court for “perverting the course of justice.” The Magistrates Court cited Bainimarama’s poor health and an underlying heart condition as motivating factors for this lenient decision.  Bainimarama, a [...]

Editors’ note: Amid surging violence between Hamas and Israeli forces, JURIST is seeking perspectives from law students, law professors and lawyers around the world. Neither this nor other commentaries constitute JURIST editorial policy, nor do they necessarily reflect the opinions of the editorial team. On Friday, October 27, at its tenth emergency special session, the [...]

The Pacific Island Forum Wednesday expressed concern in a public seminar over Japan’s plans to discharge radioactive waste from reactors damaged in the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the Pacific Ocean. Secretary General Henry Puna discussed the findings of an independent panel of experts on Japan’s plan and claimed that Japan’s assertion of safety lacks scientific [...]

A Fiji court Tuesday issued an order to seize a Russian-owned superyacht after an application was made to register a US warrant to seize the vessel. The Amadea arrived in the island nation three weeks ago and was impounded by police following a filing in the High Court of Fiji by Christopher Pryde, director of [...]

More than two centuries ago Mary Wollstonecraft laid the foundations for feminist thought with a simple premise: lack of equal opportunity diminished individual self-worth and hobbled social progress. In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Wollstonecraft made a “wild wish” for equality between the sexes. When women are treated as less than equal [...]