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    Jurist Japan death row inmates sue over short notice for executions

    Two death row inmates in Japan filed suit Friday against the country over Japan’s practice that has prisoners receive a notification only hours before their death penalty sentence is carried out. The inmates are demanding change and seeking 22 million yen in compensation for the impact of the...
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    Jurist UAE to allow non-muslims to marry muslims

    Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates, decreed Sunday that non-muslims (citizens and foreign nationals) will now be allowed to marry and have their marriages recognized in the Emirates. This is a significant shift in Emirate’s marriage law, which was...
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    Jurist Afghanistan dispatches: ‘Many government employees have not received any pay for nearly three months now’

    JURIST EXCLUSIVE – 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 offers observations on the financial predicament of civil service employees in Afghanistan. For privacy and...
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    Jurist Netherlands Supreme Court overturns $50 billion ruling against Russia

    The Supreme Court of the Netherlands overturned judgments of the The Hague Court of Appeal on Friday. The judgments — dated September 25 of 2018 and February 18 of 2020 — ordered Russia to pay $50 billion as part of an arbitration award to shareholders of Yukos. Yukos was a Russian company...
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    Jurist Hong Kong court narrows scope of riot convictions

    The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal issued a unanimous judgment Thursday holding that people cannot be convicted of rioting or illegal assembly if they are physically absent from the scene. The appeal centered on whether the city can prosecute rioting and illegal assembly crimes under the...
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    Jurist Afghanistan dispatches: ‘School teachers have not received salaries for three months now and the Taliban have banned use of foreign currencies’

    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 offers observations on the financial predicament of school teachers in Afghanistan and the Taliban’s financial incapability to...
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    Jurist Venezuela and ICC signs Agreement of Understanding to facilitate cooperation and mutual assistance

    The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, signed a letter of understanding with the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim A.A. Khan QC against atrocious crimes. The agreement between the two was signed Wednesday during the three days of work with the ICC prosecutor. The...
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    Jurist Mauritius dispatches: new corporate-friendly oil bill raises corruption and climate change concerns

    A Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Mauritius says that a new petroleum bill advancing in that Indian Ocean country off the coast of Africa has significant implications for climate change and raises concerns about corruption, conflict of interest, and government mismanagement. For privacy and...
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    Jurist UN rights experts call on Saudi Arabia and Viet Nam to crack down on trafficking

    United Nations human rights experts Thursday called on both Saudi Arabia and Viet Nam to “crack down” on human trafficking following reports of women and girls recruited in Viet Nam to serve as domestic workers in Saudi Arabia. The experts noted that traffickers “target[] Vietnamese women and...
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    Jurist Italy bans sexist and discriminatory adverts on streets or any form of transportation

    Italy’s senate agreed Friday to ban any adverts which consist of sexist, discriminatory, or anti-abortion content from appearing anywhere across their entire transportation infrastructure. The new transport and infrastructure decree will ban adverts in public that are seen to perpetuate a...
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