A Pakistani Christian who was attacked by a mob last month after being accused of blasphemy has succumbed to his injuries, local media reported Monday. Nazir Masih, 72, sustained severe head injuries during the May 25 attack and underwent two surgeries before his death. He was buried in Sargodha, a city in Pakistan’s Punjab province.  [...]

French and Spanish farmers on Monday blocked the border of the Spanish regions of the Basque Country and Catalonia and cut off traffic at key border crossings in protest against the EU’s agriculture policy. News outlets reported that hundreds of tractors gathered at the France-Spain border on Monday morning and obstructed main access points in [...]

Portugal announced a plan to toughen its immigration policies on Monday known as the “Action Plan for Migration.” The country’s Council of Ministers approved the new plan which seeks to regulate migration, attract foreign talent, and foster human integration and institutional reorganization. According to the Portuguese government, the plan aims “to correct the serious problems in [...]

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Tuesday that four hostages—Haim Perry, Amiram Cooper, Nadav Popplewell and Yoram Metzger—were killed months ago after they were abducted on October 7 and taken as hostages of Hamas in Gaza. The bodies of the four hostages are held in captivity by Hamas. According to the IDF, the four hostages were [...]

Ernesa Shala is a JURIST staff correspondent in Kosovo and a recent graduate of the University of Pristina Faculty of Law. She files this dispatch from Pristina.  Montenegro businessman Dushko Knezhević was extradited from Great Britain to Montenegro at the end of May and has been remanded in custody. The Montenegrin Special Prosecutor’s Office filed [...]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) stated on Monday that the State of Palestine filed an application to intervene in South Africa v. Israel on Friday. The application follows the State of Palestine’s formal declaration that it accepts the competence and jurisdiction of the ICJ through Security Council Resolution 9 (1946) and Article IX of [...]

Canada’s National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) published a report on Monday stating that some parliamentarians collaborated with foreign governments to engage in “foreign interference activities.” Evidence the NSICOP gathered suggests that these unnamed parliamentarians engaged in interference activities as “semi-witting or witting participants.” The report suggested that the parliamentarians engaged in foreign [...]

The National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force arrested a 62-year-old man on Monday for alleged sedition. Together with the seven suspects arrested on May 31, a total of eight arrested suspects were allegedly involved in committing sedition, days before the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests. The police accused the suspects [...]

A Lamia Appeals Justices’ Council in Greece sentenced the founder of Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn political party Nikos Michaloliakos to prison in overturning a decision to release him on parole, according to local news outlet Athens News Agency. Michaloliakos was previously sentenced to 13 years and six months in prison before he was released on [...]

Russia’s foreign ministry announced on Monday that it added a number of British politicians and journalists to Russia’s list of people banned from entering Russia. The names and number of people subject to the new entry ban are unknown. According to Russia’s foreign ministry, the new entry bans are a response to hostility from the [...]