JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Young law students in Myanmar are defending democracy online and in public demonstrations as they resist the February 1 military takeover that deposed civilian Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Reaching out to a wide international public on social media, deploying video and graphics and using Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Signal and a [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Protests against the February 1 coup that installed a military government in Myanmar continued Wednesday as authorities released most people detained in Tuesday’s large-scale protests in defiance of a military ban on public gatherings. The protests were peaceful. Although police kept a close watch, demonstrations were not broken up with water cannon [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students reporting for JURIST in Myanmar said Tuesday that peaceful mass demonstrations by lawyers, students and other groups of civilians in defiance of a military ban on public assembly imposed Monday in the wake of last week’s military coup were violently broken up by police using water cannon and bullets. Force [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Myanmar’s military authorities Monday attempted to disperse marchers in the country’s capital with water cannons and announced on national television that they would be taking legal action against protesters opposing the military coup that overthrew the government of Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1. The march in Nay Pyi Taw was [...]

Benjamin Crump, civil rights lawyer and the attorney for George Floyd, the Minneapolis man whose May killing by police unleashed a wave of protests across the US and around the world, told an international inquiry Monday that Floyd had in fact narrated his own death on screen. Crump was speaking to the International Commission of Inquiry [...]

Pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol building in Washington DC Wednesday after thousands rallied on the National Mall in support of President Donald Trump, who had addressed them in a rambling speech laden with grievances and falsehoods just after Noon and encouraged them to move on to the Capitol. The House and Senate were evacuated [...]

The Higher Administrative Court of Berlin-Brandenburg region on Saturday ordered automaker Tesla to cease clearing trees on some parts of the site around the company’s first electric car factory in Europe. While construction on the site has begun, the factory could still be prevented from opening. Currently, Tesla awaits the complete approval of two permits, [...]

Spain’s Supreme Court Friday ordered lower courts to investigate deaths caused by COVID-19 in the country’s nursing homes. The Court additionally ordered probes into possible misuse of government funding to purchase flawed or fraudulent medical equipment. The instructions follow a previous ruling that complaints filed by unions, professional organizations, relatives of COVID-19 victims, and a [...]

A Cape Verde court has approved the extradition of Colombian lawyer and businessman Alex Nain Saab Moran to the United States, where he faces charges for money laundering on behalf of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government. Saab was arrested on 12th June 2020 on the island of Sal in Cape Verde when he was en route [...]

Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court (STF) ordered the government on Wednesday to adopt measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 in indigenous communities. The decision came hours after Aritana Yawalapiti, a leader of the Yawalapiti ethnic group in the Upper Xingu River region, passed away after contracting the disease. The judges unanimously declared that the indigenous groups [...]