German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Thursday that Germany will ban any public support shown for the pro-Palestine group Samidoun as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas. In an address to the Bundestag, the chancellor announced that the Interior Ministry would ban both Hamas and Samidoun in Germany, accusing Samidoun of openly supporting terror against Israelis. [...]
Sharareh Abdolhoseinzadeh is a law student and a PhD in Political Sociology. She files this from Tehran. On Friday, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an imprisoned Iranian woman, Narges Mohammadi, a political and civil activist who has been in prison for many years. In selecting her, the Nobel Committee emphasized her connection [...]
Israeli law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting Israel. This dispatch is from Tamar Silam, a law student in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. Imagine waking up to a morning marred by ceaseless blaring sirens. Yesterday morning at 6:30 AM, the ominous echoes of rocket [...]
Sharareh Abdolhoseinzadeh is a law student and a PhD in Political Sociology. She files this from Tehran. A few days ago, the Iranian Parliament approved a plan that, if approved by the Guardian Council of the Constitution, would destroy the limited independence of the hundred-year-old Iranian Bar Association. According to this resolution, lawyers’ associations will [...]
Lana Osei is a JURIST staff correspondent in Ghana and a recent graduate of the GIMPA (Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration) Faculty of Law. She files this dispatch from Accra. Over the weekend, hundreds of people thronged the streets of Ghana’s capital, Accra, to protest the poor socioeconomic conditions in the country. As [...]
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. In the early morning of September 24, 2023, the peaceful village of Banjska near Kosovo’s Serbian border was a target of terrorist attacks which left one Kosovo [...]
Lana Osei is a JURIST staff correspondent in Ghana and a recent graduate of the GIMPA (Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration) Faculty of Law. She files this dispatch from Accra. Last Friday, September 15th, Ghana’s Armed Forces assured the country in an interview with the leadership of the Ghana Journalists Association that there [...]
US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday that he has directed House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. “Over the past several months, House Republicans have uncovered serious and credible allegations into President Biden’s conduct — a culture of corruption,” McCarthy said in a statement released via his professional Twitter/X [...]
Aidana Tastanova is a Kazakhstan national and a 4th year law student attending the Moscow State Institute of International Relations under a Kazakh government scholarship. On Friday, September 1, during an address to the people of Kazakhstan, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev proposed a national referendum on the issue of approval or rejection of the construction of [...]
In the latest iteration of Russia’s ongoing crackdown on dissent, a Moscow court on Friday ordered the detention of Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of independent election monitoring organization Golos. The organization announced in a statement that the initial detention period was set at two months pending an investigation into charges that Melkonyants organized the activities of [...]
