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    Jurist UK Metropolitan Police Chief accuses Crown Prosecution Service of failing victims and ‘cherry-picking’ cases

    Metropolitan Police Service Chief Sir Mark Rowley on Thursday accused the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) of failing victims by ‘cherry-picking easy cases’ to fast-track through courts. The CPS reacted by saying the comments “risk damaging public confidence.” In the London Evening Standard...
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    Jurist Mexico human rights groups call for additional reforms to legal capacity protections

    Over 100 human rights groups sent a letter Thursday to the Mexican Congress asking state legislatures to increase and improve legal capacity protections by reforming their civil codes and notary public legislation to provide alternative guardianships for vulnerable groups, particularly older...
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    Jurist Namibia Supreme Court rules in favor of recognizing foreign same-sex marriages

    The Supreme Court of Namibia ruled the country’s authorities must recognize foreign same-sex marriages for immigration purposes, potentially signaling a major policy shift in a country where homosexuality is criminalized. The decision came out of a consolidated appeal involving two foreign...
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    Jurist Ecuador president dissolves national assembly, calls elections during own impeachment trial

    President of Ecuador Guillermo Lasso dissolved Ecuador’s National Assembly and called for new elections Wednesday just one day after his impeachment trial began. Lasso will also rule by decree for economic matters, subject to oversight by the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court, until the upcoming...
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    Jurist Twitter, Saudi Arabia sued for racketeering in California court

    Activist Areej Al-Sadhan filed a lawsuit against Twitter, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and several Saudi officials for racketeering on Tuesday. Al-Sadhan is suing on behalf of her brother Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan, who is imprisoned in Saudi Arabia and was allegedly tortured by Saudi authorities, and...
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    Jurist Tunisia court sentences opposition leader Ghannouchi to a year in prison

    A Tunisian court sentenced Rached Ghannouchi in absentia to one year in prison Monday following indictment charges after his arrest in April. Ghannouchi is the opposition figure in Tunisia heading the Ennahda party. His lawyer, Monia Bouali, conveyed that the 81-year-old head of the Ennahda...
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    Jurist Amnesty International: Global executions surged in 2022, reaching highest number recorded in five years

    The number of judicial executions recorded globally in 2022 reached the highest figure in five years, according to Amnesty International’s annual review of the death penalty, released Monday. Excluding the untold thousands believed to have taken place in China, a total of 883 executions were...
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    Jurist UK Home Secretary accused of breaching barrister rules with ‘racist’ and ‘discriminatory’ comments

    Nine organizations reported UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman to the Bar Standards Board (BSB) on last Thursday regarding her use of language when speaking about the British Pakistani community and asylum seekers during an April televised interview. The organizations urged the legal watchdog to...
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    Jurist Thailand voters elect opposition parties over military-backed government in national elections

    Thailand’s two major pro-democracy opposition parties—Move Forward Party and Pheu Thai—won a landslide in national elections on Sunday. The election reflected Thai voters’ rejection of the military-backed government, which has dominated the political scene for nearly a decade. According to a...
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    Jurist UK PM Rishi Sunak calls for changes to EU law ahead of UK immigration bill’s passage

    UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Tuesday called for changes to international law regarding migration that experts think government will break by allowing UK ministers to ignore rulings from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Sunak is scheduled to meet with heads of the EU and the ECHR in...
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