The death toll of West Bengal’s electoral violence increased Saturday when two more people were reported killed over issues related to the state’s recent village council elections. Since the West Bengal State Election Commission released its schedule for the elections, which were held on July 8, West Bengal has seen extensive violence. Even while the [...]

The UK’s Illegal Migration Bill is set to become law as of Tuesday, with the House of Lords backing down on a series of amendments.  The bill provides for the deportation of those who arrive on the UK’s shores ‘illegally.’ Under the bill, anyone who arrives in the UK illegally will be detained and promptly [...]

Former Uttar Pradesh legislator and Senior Samajwadi Party member Azam Khan was sentenced to two years imprisonment Saturday by a Rampur court in a hate speech case filed during the 2019 Lok Sabha election campaign. Khan has faced significant legal challenges in the past six months, with three convictions, one acquittal and various ongoing cases. The [...]

Thalia Clerveau is a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She files this dispatch from Accra. This is one in a seasonal series of columns by JURIST law student staff and correspondents discussing their summer work in support of justice, human rights and the rule of law, in their own countries and [...]

A district judge in Iowa issued a temporary injunction on the state’s new “fetal heartbeat law” Monday following a suit by abortion providers to block the strict abortion ban, formally known as House File (H.F.) 732. As a result, the law is blocked from taking effect while the lawsuit continues and abortion up to 20 [...]

Africa News and the Associated Press reported Sunday that many refugees who crossed Sudan’s northeast border this month into Libya are asking the UN for better support amid reports of delays and inadequate shelter. The refugees seek safety from a conflict that has displaced millions. When the Rapid Support Forces (RAF), a paramilitary group led [...]

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Americans for Immigrant Justice (AIJ) and the American Immigration Council (AIC) filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the recently enacted Florida immigration law SB 1718, one of the strictest immigration laws in the US. The suit focuses mainly on Section 10, the portion of the [...]

Four officials from the Cambodian opposition Candlelight Party were arrested for spoiling ballots, inciting people to destroy ballots, and disturbing the peace during the recent Cambodia general election, Cambodian authorities also fined 17 other opposition activists and politicians and banned them from holding elected office for 20 years over similar charges. Those arrested include Ly [...]

A survey of terrorism survivors in the UK released Monday found that many survivors believe that the government’s terrorism compensation scheme is broken. In the survey, the advocacy group Survivors Against Terror found most respondents are unhappy with the Ministry of Justice’s Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA). The survey interviewed more than 130 survivors of [...]

Iran Police Command spokesman Sardar Saeed Montazerul-Mahdi announced on Sunday that the country’s morality police would resume notifying and detaining women who are not wearing a hijab—an Islamic headscarf—in public, 10 months after the death of Mahsa Amini sparked nationwide protests. The 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was arrested by the Tehran police on September 14, 2022 for [...]