The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) Tuesday released a draft law detailing new regulations for providers of artificial intelligence (AI) products. The new law will require these providers to report to the Ministry of Cyberspace affairs and ensure their product undergoes a security assessment before it can be released to the public. Although all AI [...]
Vietnamese journalist and activist Nguyen Lan Thang Wednesday goes to trial on charges of “conducting anti-state propaganda,” after being arrested July 5, 2022 for his reporting on protests and human rights violations. Should he be found guilty, Nguyen faces up to 12 years in prison. Nguyen, who contributed to US government-funded Radio Free Asia as [...]
Counsel for ousted Tennessee Representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson Monday sent a letter directing Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton to restore their rights if they are reinstated. In the letter, counsel for both individuals explained the severity of these events: The world is watching Tennessee. Any partisan retributive action, such as the discriminatory treatment of [...]
A group of 14 transgender and nonbinary state legislators Monday sent a letter to the Biden administration, criticizing Title IX policy changes the Department of Education (DOE) proposed last week. The new DOE changes regard the eligibility of transgender athletes on school sports teams. In the letter, the representatives from ten state legislatures said that [...]
Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. ‘Mission Save Constitution’, an organization headed by Indian advocate Mehmood Pracha, has called for a people’s protest march on April 14, 2023 to ensure and uphold [...]
Chinese authorities Monday sentenced two of the country’s most prominent human rights activists to prison for the crime of “subversion of state power.” Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi were sentenced in a court in Shandong province to 14 years and 12 years in prison, respectively. Senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch Yaqiu Wang called [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Friday ruled that an Indiana school district did not violate a teacher’s right to exercise his religious practices after the school terminated the teacher for refusing to use students’ preferred names or pronouns as required by school policy. US Circuit Court Judge Ilana Rovner found [...]
The US District Court for the Northern District of Texas Friday suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. Later on Friday, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Washington issued a competing opinion ruling that mifepristone is safe and effective. The FDA approved medication abortions via mifepristone [...]
China Friday imposed additional sanctions on Hsiao Bi-khim, Taiwan’s de facto ambassador and representative to the US, prohibiting her and her family from entering mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. Hsiao commented on the sanctions on Twitter, saying, “Wow, the just sanctioned me again, for the second time,” alongside a photo of the Taiwan Affairs [...]
Togo’s National Assembly Thursday voted in favor of extending a state of security emergency in the Savanes region for another year. The measure follows a recent increase in incursions from terrorist groups near the country’s northern borders. The measure, authorized by Togolese National Assembly President Chantal Yawa Djigbodi Tségan, is a further extension to President [...]
