Chinese Communist Party-owned media outlet Renminwang reported Monday that the Chinese Ministry of Public Security began another week of promoting its operation to target online rumors and encourage rational commenting on the internet. As part of the campaign, the Ministry of Public Security released examples of online rumors to educate the public on how to [...]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday expelled an activist from his Likud party who had made ethnically derogatory remarks about the Holocaust. The incident occurred during protests against Israel’s ongoing judicial reform, which has widened political divisions in the nation and triggered sustained anti-government demonstrations for over eight months. The party activist in question, [...]

Mexican journalist Nelson Matus Peña was shot and killed in the city of Acapulco in Guerrero on Saturday. He was the founder of ‘Lo Real de Guerrero‘, a Mexican media outlet. Human Rights Watch Researcher Tyler Mattiace announced Matus’s death on Monday. Mattiace further added that Matus survived a previous shooting in 2019 and was [...]

Lawrence Alado is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Uganda. 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 around the world. The first week of my internship in [...]

Belarusian law students enrolled at European Humanities University are filing reports with JURIST on current circumstances in Belarus under the constitutionally-disputed presidency of Alexander Lukashenka. Katsiaryna Vasilionak files this dispatch from Vilnius, Lithuania.   On the night of July 11, Belarusian political prisoner artist Ales Pushkin died in the intensive care unit of a hospital in [...]

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a heartbeat-based abortion ban into law Friday after the bill passed in a marathon special session of the Iowa legislature. The newly enacted law states, “A physician shall not perform an abortion upon a pregnant woman when it has been determined that the unborn child has a detectable fetal heartbeat, [...]

Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) LLC asked Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday to vacate a stay imposed by the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit halting the construction of one of the last portions of a 303-mile natural gas pipeline running from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia. MVP asserts that the Fourth [...]

US District Court Judge for the District of Oregon Karin Immergut ruled on Friday that Oregon Ballot Measure 114 (BM 114), which restricts large-capacity magazines (LCMs) and requires permits before purchasing a firearm, is constitutional. Judge Immergut ruled that the Second Amendment does not protect LCMs, which BM 114 defines as magazines capable of firing [...]

A Hong Kong court sentenced a man on Friday to 18 days in jail for “insulting” the national flag and regional flag, according to Hong Kong Free Press. The man, Yung Ching-man, was charged with one count of desecrating the Chinese national flag and one count of insulting the regional flag. Yung was arrested for [...]

Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Relations sent a diplomatic note to the US government on Friday expressing its concerns about the deployment of floating barriers by Texas on the Rio Grande. The memo raised concerns that the barriers may violate 1944 and 1970 treaties on boundaries and water, which require the river to remain unobstructed, and [...]