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    Jurist French high court gives CSOs procedural win in Total Uganda oil case

    The Court of Cassation, France’s highest court, ruled Wednesday to resolve procedural issues in favor of six nonprofit groups in their case against oil giant Total Uganda. Six French and Ugandan civil society organizations (CSOs) brought the case against Total in 2019: Friends of the Earth...
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    Jurist North Korea trending toward private executions amidst criticism: NGO report

    Seoul-based rights group Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG) released a report Wednesday on human rights abuses in North Korea. The report, titled “Mapping Killings under Kim Jong-un: North Korea’s Response to International Pressure” pulls information from six years of research and 683...
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    Jurist Norway data authority fines Grindr €6.4M over illegal data sharing

    The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) Monday fined the popular queer dating app Grindr for sharing users’ personal data with third parties, including ad tech companies MoPub, Xandr, OpenX, AdColony and Smaato. The decision stems from a complaint filed by the Norwegian Consumer Council...
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    Jurist UK Justice Ministry report: fewer ethnic minority candidates accepted into judiciary

    A new ad hoc report from the UK Ministry of Justice finds fewer Black, Asian, and minority ethnic candidates are selected to serve in the judiciary. The report finds that, beyond other controlling factors, a candidate’s ethnicity is a significant factor in determining how successful they are in...
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    Jurist UN chief calls for action against autonomous weapons

    UN Secretary General António Guterres Monday encouraged members to devise “an ambitious plan for the future to establish restrictions on the use of certain types of autonomous weapons” ahead of the Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). He has called on...
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    Jurist Hong Kong judge sentences pro-democracy tycoon over Tiananmen vigil

    Hong Kong Judge Amy Woodcock Monday sentenced activist Jimmy Lai to prison for his role in a vigil commemorating the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. The case arose from an annual vigil held on June 4, 2020. Lai, as well as two other activists who are defendants in the case, held...
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    Jurist Myanmar military leader Min Aung Hliang accused of crimes against humanity

    Myanmar’s military leader Senior General Min Aung Hliang Friday was accused of crimes against humanity in a complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC) by the Myanmar Accountability Project (MAP). Article 15 of the Rome Statute empowers the ICC Prosecutor to initiate an investigation on...
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    Jurist Former Denmark immigration minister sentenced to prison for illegal family separation

    The Danish Court of Impeachment, or Rigsretten, Monday sentenced former Danish immigration minister Inger Støjberg to 60 days in prison. The decision follows a rare impeachment trial in February where she was found to have ordered the illegal separation of married asylum-seeking partners while...
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    Jurist Hungary Constitutional Court rules against Orban government in EU migrant decision

    The Hungarian Constitutional Court ruled against a petition from Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government Friday, seeking to challenge a ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union that held Hungary’s asylum policies broke European law. The Constitutional Court held that while...
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    Jurist Swiss Supreme Court overturn sentence of doctor who assisted the suicide of healthy elderly woman

    The Switzerland Federal Court overturned the conviction of a Geneva doctor who helped a healthy elderly woman in an assisted suicide so that she did not outlive her terminally ill husband. Originally found guilty in 2019, Pierre Beck was sentenced to 120 days suspended jail sentence for...
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