Abu Bakar Khan is a JURIST staff correspondent and lawyer based in Pakistan. On Friday morning, five sitting judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) walked into the Supreme Court of Pakistan ...

The Women's Law Project (WLP) and Philadelphia law firm Berger Montague filed a complaint Tuesday with the Pennsylvania Human ...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Monday said reports that citizen journalist and former lawyer Zhang Zhan has been handed a second four-year prison term on the ...

Amnesty International released a statement on Monday prompting the Lebanese government to grant the International Criminal Court (ICC) the jurisdiction to investigate the potential war crimes in ...

Human Rights Watch urged Chinese authorities Tuesday to release Tibetan activist, Zhang Yadi (张雅笛), also known as Tara, after she created a digital platform advocating for Tibetan rights in ...

The US Department of State on Monday announced sanctions against individuals within the support network of Brazilian Supreme ...

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger announced Monday that they will withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing the tribunal of serving 'imperial' rather than African interests. The ...

Venezuelan authorities have continued to commit and failed to investigate grave human rights violations stemming from political persecution following the 2024 presidential elections, according to a ...

Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah was released from prison Tuesday, ending a six-year detention on charges broadly decried as politically motivated. Family members shared news of Alaa ...

International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutors are seeking charges against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte for crimes against humanity, alleging he orchestrated thousands of murders ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday designating Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. The order calls Antifa a 'militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls ...

The US Supreme Court announced Monday that it will rule on the firing of a federal agency head and consider whether to overturn a 95-year-old case that prevents the president from firing Federal ...