Mozambique’s former finance minister, Manuel Chang, was sentenced to serve eight-and-a-half years in prison this Friday for his role in the “tuna bond” scandal by a Brooklyn court. In 2005, Mozambique’s President Armando Guebuza named Manuel Chang as minister of finance with a mission of leading the fight against poverty. Ironically, Chang — along with [...]

The Federal Court of Canada granted a motion on Saturday to expedite a legal challenge to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s request to prorogue Parliament until March 24, 2025. The Chief Justice clarified that if the hearing were to follow the Federal Court’s usual timelines, there would be no opportunity for Canada’s elected representatives to debate [...]

Two senior Iranian judges were killed on Saturday in a shooting attack carried out by an unidentified armed man at the Supreme Court in Tehran. Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh were assassinated by a gunman who immediately afterward committed suicide while attempting to flee. While attacks against judges are rare, Iran has witnessed a significant [...]

Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) on Saturday charged former Member of Parliament and businessman Vadym Novynskyi with high treason and incitement of religious hatred in absentia. Despite Novynskyi not being explicitly named by the statement of the law enforcement agency, local media reported that the description and thumbnail of the video attached showed that [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Thailand not to forcibly repatriating 48 Uyghur men to China on Friday. The group stated that the detainees have been imprisoned for more than 10 years and may face a high likelihood of severe human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and torture. The group urged the Thai government [...]

Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol breached Seoul’s Western District Court early Sunday after the court authorized a warrant for Yoon’s formal arrest and the president was taken into custody, according to national media outlet Yonhap News. Images and video unverified by JURIST purport to show protesters entering the courthouse through a [...]

Amnesty International on Friday condemned a Russian court’s sentencing of three lawyers for aiding the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), calling the decision “shameful.” Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia director Marie Struthers stated: The prosecution and sentencing of Vadim Kobzev, Aleksei Liptser and Igor Sergunin is a shameful attempt to [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk sounded an urgent alarm on Friday over the escalating ethnic violence in Sudan. Reports of ethnically motivated attacks, hate speech, and violence against civilians have become increasingly common in the ongoing conflict that has already devastated the lives of millions. Turk warned, “Retaliatory attacks — of shocking [...]

The European Commission announced on Friday additional measures in the ongoing proceedings against social media platform X under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The European Commission adopted three new investigatory measures. First, the EU obliged X to provide information on its recommender system, including any changes made to this algorithm. Moreover, the EU issued a [...]

A Bolivian criminal court judge ordered the arrest of former president Evo Morales on Friday after he failed to appear at a precautionary measures hearing in an aggravated human trafficking case. Along with the arrest order, Judge Nelson Rocabado of the Fifth Anti-Corruption and Violence Against Women Criminal Court in Tarija imposed national travel restrictions, [...]