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Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Kenya.   It has been nearly two weeks since war erupted in Sudan, one of Kenya’s neighboring countries. As of Monday this week at least 460 people had been confirmed dead in Sudan while an estimated of 4063 people have been injured due to the ongoing clashes between [...]

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. On Sunday, March 26, the High Commissioner of Canada was summoned by India to convey the nation’s growing concerns after the Indian consulate in Vancouver was [...]

The UK Ministry of Justice Friday announced domestic abusers who kill their partners will face harsher sentences if the offender has a history of controlling behavior or violence towards the victim. The ministry announced new legislative measures to address domestic homicide, which include incorporating excessive violence and coercive control as aggravating factors in sentencing decisions [...]

The UK government Tuesday unveiled its Illegal Migration Bill, which would require the deportation of anyone who illegally entered the UK and passed through a safe country. If passed, the home secretary will have the power to enforce the legislation. The bill comes under the scope of one of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s “5 [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Wednesday accusing the United States and the United Kingdom of crimes against humanity for actions in the Chagos Islands 60 years ago. The two countries collaborated in the forced removal of the Chagossians, an indigenous population from the Islands, from 1965 to 1973. The Chagossians were forced from [...]

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Ciara Dinneny is JURIST’s Chief European Correspondent and a trainee with the Law Society of Ireland. She files this dispatch from Dublin.   Earlier this month, the European Union and the UK [...]

The US Friday sanctioned executives and board members of Qods Aviation industries (QAI) for supplying Russia with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The sanctions are pursuant to Executive Order (EO) 13382. This Bush Administration EO gives the Department of the Treasury the authority to block property belonging to proliferators of weapons of mass destruction. The sanctions [...]

A Hong Kong district court Saturday sentenced pro-democracy activist and media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai to almost six years of imprisonment on fraud charges. Lai is already serving a 20-month prison sentence in Hong Kong for his participation in a vigil commemorating the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Lai also has a separate trial still [...]

“This is not a bluff,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said of Moscow’s willingness to deploy nuclear weapons in Ukraine during a meandering speech on Wednesday, in which he also laid the groundwork for Russia’s annexation of several Ukrainian regions, and announced a partial military mobilization. Hours after Putin’s address, US President Joe Biden referred to [...]

The past decades have seen a growing interest in, and utilisation of, outer space. Ease of access to space has increased alongside the rise of more affordable and small-scale technologies, and as a consequence space has become a congested and competitive environment. This has resulted in an increase in the number of nations with space [...]