The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) declared a landslide victory in the country’s 7th general election on Sunday. According to the National Election Committee, 8.2 million voters, or 84.58 percent of all eligible voters, showed up at over 23,700 polling stations. Although another 17 parties were also taking part in the general election, the CPP [...]

Several United Nations (UN) experts raised concerns Friday over an incident in Libya where 120 migrants and refugees were allegedly taken to an undisclosed location and were then detained without legal counsel. The experts sent a letter in May apprising the Libyan government of their concerns. The experts alleged that the migrants were released from [...]

Guatemalan presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo accused authorities of “political persecution” on Friday after police raided his center-left Semilla party headquarters. Arévalo condemned the raid as an attempt to hinder his campaign for the 2023 presidential election, the second round of which is scheduled for August 20. Prosecutors say they were enforcing a court order which suspended [...]

Natasha Kahungi is JURIST’s Africa Bureau Chief. She files this from Nairobi.  Many voices are being raised as Kenya braces for the anticipated introduction of an anti-LGBT bill in parliament, creating a cacophony of both support and opposition to the planned legislation. This vibrant outpouring of viewpoints highlights the complexity of this pressing social issue [...]

Aidana Tastanova is a Kazakhstan national and a 3rd year law student attending the Moscow State Institute of International Relations under a Kazakh government scholarship.  Aitylğan sõz – atylğan oq (translation: ‘A word once spoken can never be recalled’) – Kazakh proverb On July 10, the lower house of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, the Majilis, [...]

A group of plaintiffs on Friday filed an amended complaint in Florida seeking to block enforcement of the state’s restrictions on gender-affirming care for trans adults. The complaint alleges that the restrictions “put multiple substantial, harmful, and medically unnecessary obstacles in the path of transgender patients seeking treatment.” Florida’s restrictions on gender-affirming care for trans [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Environment and Natural Resources Division sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Texas Interim Attorney General Angela Colmenero on Thursday over the legality of Texas deploying floating barriers in the Rio Grande. The letter cites several violations of federal law and raises other concerns over the barriers. [...]

Michael Cohen, former attorney of former President Donald Trump, settled his lawsuit against the Trump organization Friday. The suit alleged that Cohen was owed over $1.9 million in legal fees that the Trump Organization refused to pay after Cohen was fired as Trump’s attorney. The hearing was not recorded; however, Kara Scannell with CNN, who [...]

Singapore Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugan asked the Singapore Police Force (SPF) on Friday to investigate allegations of racial discrimination and workplace bullying in the force made by a Singaporean police officer who was found dead the same day. The officer, 35-year-old Uvaraja Gopal, died in the hospital after being found unconscious near [...]

Operations and staff at the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad were relocated temporarily on Friday to Stockholm after it was stormed by protesters. In a statement, Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Tobias Billström said: At 2 am this morning local time, violent protesters stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad. The Embassy office was occupied, vandalised and [...]