The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, announced Sunday that he had ordered full action be taken against a mob who lynched a mentally ill man for burning pages of the Qur’an in Khanewal district of Punjab last week. The man was arrested for a violation of Pakistan’s strict anti-blasphemy laws, which penalize defiling a [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, Afghan lawyer and former UK Chevening Scholar Ahmad Ali Shariati offers a tribute to Sayed Asif Mubtahij Hashimi, Dean of Faculty of Sharia Law at Ghazni University in Afghanistan, who was found dead last Thursday [...]

Voters in Switzerland Sunday overwhelmingly rejected an initiative attempting to impose a complete ban on all kinds of experimentation on humans and animals. The initiative also included a ban on the import of any new products that were developed using such testing. About 44 percent of the eligible voters participated in the referendum. According to [...]

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a Nigerian rights group, has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammed Buhari at the Federal High Court (Lagos) over the government’s failure to publish a copy of the agreement recently signed between the federal government and social media giant Twitter. The rights group joined Alhaji Lai Muhammed, the [...]

The Federal Supreme Court of Iraq (FSC) Sunday barred former foreign minister and Kurdish politician, Hoshyar Zebari, from representing the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Iraq’s presidential race, citing outstanding corruption allegations against him. Zebari said that, although he respects the judiciary, the decision is an “injustice.” Zebari has been a frontrunner in Iraq’s ongoing [...]

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week and has now spread elsewhere across the country. Here, 2L Brad Henderson reports. On Sunday the Windsor Police Service, the Ontario Provincial Police, and the Royal [...]

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week. Here, 1L Mélanie Cantin reports.  Many things struck me when I walked through the Freedom Convoy encampments on Saturday morning and early afternoon with fellow Ottawa [...]

Tunisia President Kais Saied on Sunday issued a decree replacing the country’s judicial independence watchdog with his own council and giving himself near-unilateral power over the appointment and dismissal of judges. Protests followed shortly after as citizens denounced Saied’s most recent step toward authoritarianism. In July, Saied dismissed the sitting prime minister and suspended parliament, [...]

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for over a week. Here, 3L Andrew Warkentin reports. He and 1L Mélanie Cantin went into the protest zone in downtown Ottawa Saturday to talk to protesters. Despite an extreme [...]

In a joint statement released Saturday, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japan Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and South Korea Foreign Minister Eui-yong Chung commented on a range of international affairs, including North Korea’s recent ballistic missile test. The statement follows a joint meeting in Honolulu which sought “to reaffirm the critical importance of [...]