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    Jurist India dispatches: Aryan Khan Bollywood drama raises serious legal questions and privacy concerns

    India Staff Correspondent Sambhav Sharma and India Chief Correspondent Neelabh Bist offer their perspective on the legal issues surrounding the recent high-profile arrest and detention of Bollywood celebrity heir Aryan Khan on illegal drug charges. They file this for JURIST from New Delhi. The...
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    Jurist International Criminal Court closes long time war crime investigation into Colombia after cooperation agreement

    The office of the public prosecutor (OTP) and the government of Colombia entered into a cooperation agreement Thursday, effectively closing the ICC’s 17 year-long preliminary investigations into Colombia’s alleged war crimes. The agreement, which was concluded by the prosecutor, Mr. Karim A. A...
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    Jurist India high court asks banking regulator for response to plea against blocking of cryptocurrency transactions

    The Delhi High Court issued a notice Thursday asking the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), and State Bank of India (SBI) to respond to a petition seeking revocation of the prohibition on using the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) System for...
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    Jurist Australia state government introduces pandemic bill enhancing government authority during pandemic

    The Victorian government introduced a bill that would give pandemic management discretion to the state’s premier and health minister. The bill would give the premier nearly full authority to declare a pandemic, with no limits to the duration. The health minister would then have the power to...
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    Jurist AP investigation reveals Myanmar military has engaged in systematic torture

    The Associated Press (AP) has released an investigative report revealing that the Myanmar military has been torturing prisoners in a “methodical and systematic” manner since taking over the government in February. The report is based on interviews with 28 people who were recently released by...
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    Jurist European Parliament launches lawsuit against member states failing to respect rule of law principles

    The European Parliament launched a lawsuit Friday against the European Commission for a mechanism that allows the freezing of EU payments to member states which failed to respect the rule of law principles. The mechanism in question links EU funds to the rule of law breaches. The lawsuit...
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    Jurist Belarus classify three social media networks as ‘extremist’ organizations

    The Belarus Ministry of Internal Affairs declared Friday that three of the country’s most popular social media channels will be classed as “extremist.” Telegram channels, NEXTA, NEXTA live, and LUXTA were widely used during the street protests in 2020 to protest against the election, which...
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    Jurist India city police commissioner receives legal notice over illegal mass-scale searches of mobile phones

    Srinivas Kodali, a Hyderabad-based privacy researcher, issued a legal notice Friday to the Commissioner of Hyderabad Police, Anjani Kumar. The release demands a halt to the illegal searches of mobile phones being carried out by police personnel across the city. The Internet Freedom Foundation...
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    Jurist India government questions Facebook internal moderation amidst hate speech allegations

    The Government of India’s Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeITY) sought clarification Friday from Facebook India’s Managing Director Ajit Mohan on the algorithms used by the company to moderate hate speech and fake news on its social media platforms. The move comes just a few weeks after...
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    Jurist Canada dispatch: Canada appeals Federal Court decision to uphold compensation for Indigenous children

    Ian Profiri is JURIST’s Staff Correspondent for Canada. He files this dispatch from Calgary. The government of Canada has filed for an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada over a September 29 Federal Court decision to uphold a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal order requiring Ottawa to...
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