The UK National Crime Agency announced on Monday that the Chief of Staff to Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina was arrested last week and charged with bribery offences. The President’s Chief of Staff, named as Romy Andrianarisoa, and Philippe Tabuteau, a French National, “are suspected of seeking a bribe to secure licences to operate in Madagascar [...]

UK’s Minister of State for Development and Africa Andrew Mitchel said he was “appalled” by human rights violations committed in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and called upon Eritrean forces to leave the country in response to a question from independent peer Lord Alton of Liverpool. The letter comes over half a year after the formal cessation [...]

James Joseph is JURIST’s UK Senior Editor, and was recently accepted as a Ph.D. student in the King’s College London Department of War Studies, where he will study law and the responsibility to protect.  In a press release issued by The Law Society Friday it was announced that “Solicitors wishing to celebrate their hard work [...]

The UK Electoral Commission said Tuesday that it fell victim to a cyberattack and that “hostile actors” were able to access copies of the electoral register, with the name and address of anyone registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. The Electoral Commission’s Chief Executive Sean McNally apologized to people whose information was hacked, saying [...]

The UK government announced a new task force to target “crooked” immigration lawyers on Tuesday. Home Secretary Suella Braverman said lawyers who assist migrants with bogus asylum claims are common and “must be rooted out and brought to justice.” The Home Secretary’s comments came after reports emerged in the Daily Mail of solicitors telling an [...]

The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) issued a statement on Friday calling for an end to the systemic killing of Shia Hazaras in Afghanistan in order to prevent a possible genocide under Taliban rule. In their Friday statement, FORUM-ASIA urged the international community to raise awareness about the ongoing persecution of marginalized groups [...]

German prosecutors announced Thursday that a Syrian national accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes through torture and enslavement between 2012 and 2015 has been arrested. The investigating judge presiding over the matter ordered the man detained pending trial. The Syrian national, known only as ‘Ahmad H.,’ was arrested by Officers of the Federal [...]

James Joseph is JURIST’s UK Senior Editor. I have previously written about my work alongside Emma Lilley, an in-house solicitor, in campaigning for The Law Society (the professional association representing solicitors in England and Wales) to host a regional call ceremony for solicitors outside London, where all calls have traditionally taken place. Finally, after a [...]

British Rowing announced a new policy Thursday, banning transgender athletes from competing in the Women’s Category. Their new policy comes with the announcement of three new categories starting September 11: Open, Mixed and Women’s. However, the new policy also states that for the Women’s Category, “Only individuals who are assigned female at birth will be [...]

The UK Government announced Monday that it has sanctioned six people involved in Russia’s sentencing of dual British-Russian national Vladimir Kara-Murza after his appeal was rejected. The government sanctioned three judges, two prosecutors and an “expert witness” over what it has called “politically motivated targeting.” Those sanctioned include: Moscow City Court Judges Vitaly Alexsandrovich Belitsky and [...]