The UN Command announced Tuesday that a US citizen on a tour of the Joint Security Area (JSA) of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea crossed the border into North Korea and is believed to be in North Korean custody. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed that the US citizen was [...]

Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Senior Correspondent in Kenya. She files this dispatch from Nairobi.   Major public demonstrations against the Kenyan government and its handling of tax increases and the cost of living crisis are set to take place in Kenya from Wednesday to Friday this week. The demonstrations have been on the mind of [...]

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. The Delhi High Court came to a standstill Monday after lawyers heeded the (colloquially known as “Harthal”) call of the Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) [...]

Israeli law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting Israel. This dispatch is from Mayan Lawent, a law student in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Israel.  Last Thursday, July 11, the Israeli Knesset voted for curtailing the application of the so-called [...]

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the former State Councillor deposed and detained by the Myanmar military in February 2021, has been [...]

The Attorney General of El Salvador announced the culmination of an illegal microfinancing sting that resulted in the arrests of over a hundred Colombian nationals at a press conference Monday. The arrests come at a time when El Salvador’s government is under international scrutiny for its ongoing mass detention of suspected gang members. An international [...]

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a section of the newly enacted SAFE-T Act that eliminated cash bail in the state was legal under the state’s constitution. Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis, writing for the majority, stated: The Illinois Constitution of 1970 does not mandate that monetary bail is the only means to ensure [...]

Amnesty International condemned a recent migration agreement between the EU and Tunisia on Monday. Amnesty International claimed that the agreement makes the EU “complicit in the suffering that will inevitably result” in what represents a “dangerous expansion” of failed migration policies. Members of the European Commission signed the memorandum of understanding with Tunisia on Sunday. [...]

Hong Kong Secretary for Security Chris Tang told state-owned newspaper Wen Wei Po on Monday that the Hong Kong government is addressing “soft resistance” and online behavior that might threaten national security in its efforts to implement Article 23 of Hong Kong’s Basic Law. The term “soft resistance” refers to subtle methods of sowing distrust [...]

The International Criminal Court Appeals Chamber upheld a prior ICC decision to resume its investigations into civilian deaths as a result of the Philippine government’s “war on drugs” on Tuesday, stymying an attempt by the Philippines to block an external investigation. In a 3-2 ruling, the majority rejected all four of the arguments raised by [...]