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    Jurist ECHR rules against Bulgaria in forfeiture of criminal assets and high court fees case

    The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) }']ruled on Tuesday against Bulgaria in Mandev and Others v Bulgaria, a case relating to unfair and unjustified forfeiture of assets as proceeds of crime and high court fees. In this case, the court joined five applications in a single judgment. First...
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    Jurist Over 50 civil society groups call on US Department of Justice to allocate forfeited assets from Lafarge case to aid Syria atrocity victims

    In an open letter, over 50 civil society organizations urged the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to ensure that any forfeited assets from its landmark case against Lafarge S.A. and Lafarge Cement Syria S.A. are directed to to support victims and survivors of underlying atrocity crimes associated...
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    Jurist Amnesty International UK criticises House of Lords for failing to reject clauses which strip away human rights protections for prisoners

    Amnesty International UK criticised the House of Lords on Wednesday for their failure to strike down clauses in a vote earlier in the week, which strip away human rights protections for prisoners. They have warned of a “sinister trend” of human rights being “switched off, ” with prisoners being...
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    Jurist 30,000 protesters surround Taiwan parliament decrying proposed parliamentary reform law

    30,000 Taiwanese demonstrators surrounded the Legislative Yuan, the island’s parliament, on Tuesday protesting against the legislative majority’s attempts to enact new laws by allegedly violating procedural justice and the island’s constitution. The controversies surround two bills, the...
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    Jurist New York Metropolitan Museum returns smuggled ancient statues to Thailand

    Thailand’s National Museum hosted a welcome-home ceremony on Tuesday for two ancient statues illegally trafficked from Thailand by a British antiquities collector and returned from the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met). The 129-centimeter statue called the “Golden Boy”...
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    Jurist Netherlands announces ban on adoption from foreign countries

    The Netherlands will no longer allow its citizens to adopt children internationally, the Minister for Legal Protection Franc Weerwind wrote on Tuesday. With this decision the minister responds to the motion passed by the Dutch House of Representatives in which the government was requested to...
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    Jurist India court denies bail to former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister in excise policy case

    The Delhi High Court rejected Tuesday former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s bail pleas in relation to the money laundering and corruption allegations made by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), both in connection with the Delhi excise policy...
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    Jurist UN officials say 2023 saw an ‘alarming lack of compliance’ with international humanitarian law

    Senior UN Officials decried the “plight of civilians” resulting from conflict in 2023 as “resoundingly dire” on Tuesday, pointing out civilian suffering and disregard for international humanitarian and human rights law around the world. Their remarks coincide with the 75th anniversary of the...
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    Jurist New Zealand MP apologizes following failure to declare donations to Electoral Commission

    New Zealand MP David MacLeod admitted in an address to the press on Tuesday, that he failed to declare 19 candidate campaign donations to the Electoral Commission. The failure has led New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to stand down David MacLeod from his role as Chairperson of the...
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    Jurist Amnesty International releases alerting report on criminalization of human rights defenders in Mexico

    Amnesty International released an alerting report on Tuesday, highlighting the arbitrary use of the Mexican criminal justice system to criminalize women human rights defenders. The report titled “Perseguidas: Criminalización de mujeres defensoras de derechos humanos en México” (Persecuted...
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