France data watchdog, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), announced Thursday that Google does not guarantee the protection of European data as per GDPR norms. It analyzed the conditions under which data is transferred to the United States through Google Analytics, a service determining site visits by an Internet user. The investigation by [...]

The UK Foreign Office introduced new legislation Thursday, imposing sanctions on those linked to Russia in the event they invade Ukraine. The new legislation that came into effect 1700 GMT will allow the UK to extend sanctions to those indirectly linked to the destabilization of Ukraine. Section 6(4) of the amendment includes “Government of Russia [...]

The Karnataka High Court issued an interim order on Thursday temporarily restraining all students in the state, “regardless of their religion or faith,” from wearing Bhagwa (saffron shawls), scarfs, hijab, religious flags or the like in classrooms until it issues a judgment on the merits on five petitions submitted by female Muslim students of Government [...]

New York Attorney General Letitia James issued a consumer alert Thursday warning New Yorkers of deceptive gambling advertisements ahead of Super Bowl LVI on Sunday. It is the first major sporting event New Yorkers can bet on since the state legislature legalized online sports betting last month. The press release cites a barrage of misleading advertisements [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held Thursday that Slovakia is liable for violating the right to a fair trial and the right to obtain attendance and examination of witnesses in a Syrian national’s complaint that his trial and conviction on charges of migrant smuggling had been unfair. In Al Alo v. Slovakia, Jamal [...]

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Greece violated the human rights of Greek national Konstantinos Tousios while he was imprisoned in 2019. Tousios was arrested in January 2019 in connection to a criminal organization and participation in migrant smuggling. He was placed in the Thessaloniki Security Department and shared a three-bed cell with [...]

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday recommended that the Senate pass the Eliminating Limits to Justice for Child Sex Abuse Victims Act to empower victims of child sex abuse by removing the statute of limitations for federal civil child sex abuse claims, giving survivors unlimited time to file the claims. There is no statute of [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a law student in Kabul reports on recent developments in the Taliban’s treatment of women in Afghanistan. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding his name. The text has only been lightly edited to [...]

The Center for Defenders and Justice (CJD), the Penal Forum, and Amnesty International published a research report Thursday indicating that calculated repression by Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro’s regime could constitute the crime against humanity of persecution. The trio of human rights organizations collaborated in conducting research for over a year. They found “a correlation between [...]

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, 2L Brad Henderson reports. On Thursday Ontario’s Attorney General successfully petitioned the Ontario Superior Court to issue an order pursuant to section 490.8 of Canada’s [...]