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    Jurist US calls on Hong Kong to cease targeting free and independent media journalists

    US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken Wednesday called on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Hong Kong to release several arrested journalists. After Hong Kong authorities raided Stand News and arrested seven senior staff members, Blinken released a statement asking that the PRC and Hong...
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    Jurist Australia Old Parliament House catches fire amid protests

    Australia’s historic Old Parliament House caught fire Thursday during protests by a mix of activists. Reporters on the scene from 7NEWS Australia cited “conflicting reports” about the fire’s origin and the protestors’ identities. Protestors performed a small, traditional smoking ceremony...
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    Jurist Afghanistan dispatches: Russia calls Taliban’s new restrictions on women ‘pure stupidity’ as international community reacts

    Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul reports on the international community’s reactions to the Taliban’s new restrictions on women’s daily lives. For privacy and...
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    Jurist Afghanistan dispatches: long lines and long waiting hours at the only functioning bank in northern Afghanistan becomes routine for cash-strapped citiz

    Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a law student discusses the plight of Afghan citizens traveling long distances and waiting long hours in long lines at northern Afghanistan’s only...
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    Jurist Germany legislature will enact law to protect COVID-19 patients with disabilities

    German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann announced Tuesday that the German legislature must take action to protect disabled patients and patients with pre-existing conditions in the event of triage caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Buschmann’s proclamation comes after an identical ruling...
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    Jurist Afghanistan dispatches: a high school teacher dies of starvation in Kandahar as unemployment and poverty conditions worsen

    Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul reports on the death of a high school teacher from starvation and the worsening conditions of unemployment, poverty, and...
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    Jurist Myanmar dispatches: ‘I am broken-hearted by these repetitive incidents …What if well-meaning people have become numb to such inhumane acts’

    Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding this law student’s name and institutional...
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    Jurist UN rights expert calls for France to evaluate partnership with people of African descent

    Dominique Day, chairperson of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, Monday called for France to evaluate partnership benefits from working with people of African descent. UN experts visited France to assess issues relating to people of African descent in France and to...
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    Jurist Amid cries of foul play, historian of Stalin-era purges gets 15 years in Russian prison

    A Russian court lengthened the prison sentence of historian and human rights activist Yuri Dmitriev on Monday, according to an official statement. The increase from 13 to 15 years was the latest development in a lengthy legal saga arising from charges widely decried as “spurious” and...
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    Jurist Russia Supreme Court orders human rights NGO to close for ‘foreign agent’ law violation

    The Russian Supreme Court Tuesday ordered the liquidation of Memorial International, one of Russia’s oldest and most well-respected human rights organizations, which was established in the late 1980s to shine a light on crimes committed by the Soviet regime, including the victims of dictator...
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