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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The New Zealand government on Thursday introduced the Three Strikes Legislation Repeal Bill to repeal portions of the Sentencing and Parole Reform Act of 2010 , which together form the mandatory sentencing regime called the three strikes law. This will put public safety at risk.”.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 27, 2023

India’s president assented Monday to three new post-colonial criminal law reform bills, paving the way for their enactment. Similarly, the BNSS will take the place of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1973 , which was predominantly rooted in colonial-era laws.

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JURIST

JANUARY 19, 2024

Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová urged lawmakers on Thursday to reconsider Prime Minister Robert Fico’s proposal to reform Slovakia’s criminal law and dissolve the Special Prosecutor’s Office. It was also worried that the reforms would endanger the rule of law in Slovakia.

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JURIST

JULY 1, 2024

The decades-old Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC), which provided the procedural framework for the administration of criminal law, has been replaced by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023. Lastly, the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA), 2023 took place of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The approval of the package of laws took place in a fast-track procedure before parliament, despite nationwide protests and statements of concern by the European Commission. The post Slovakia parliament approves criminal law reform amid public protests and EU concerns appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

MAY 19, 2024

Tang Renjian, 61 years old, has held various positions in the Ministry of Agriculture, the Office of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs, as well as in the Party Committee and Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. He has been serving as the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs since December 2020.

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APRIL 21, 2021

None of those convicted persons were aware of the government’s obligation to prove knowledge of their felon status at the time they pleaded guilty; if they went to trial, they neither requested nor received a jury instruction to that effect. ” asked Chief Justice John Roberts. Roberts asked. Roberts broke in.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Amnesty International released a report Thursday alleging the targeted use of Pegasus spyware against prominent Indian journalists, rekindling apprehensions about government surveillance and press freedom in the country, following the 2021 Pegasus project disclosures that sent shockwaves through India.

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MAY 7, 2022

After the government moved him to Brooklyn, Guzman Loera maintains, the United States fraudulently obtained Mexico’s waiver for that trial. He also maintains that the lower courts are split on how the government can rebut the presumption against extraterritoriality. These and other petitions of the week are below: Tat v. United States.

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JURIST

JUNE 29, 2022

The majority reasoned that although states could not prosecute Native Americans on tribal territory, Oklahoma had the authority to prosecute Castro-Huerta because the prosecution did not “infringe on tribal self-government.” Kavanaugh wrote that in the Supreme Court’s 1882 decision United States v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2021

The Swiss government instead proposes a policy that would require persons wearing full facial coverings to remove them and identify themselves to law enforcement officers when necessary. The post Switzerland government urges voters to reject ban on full facial coverings appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

MARCH 17, 2022

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, in an address Thursday to the UN Human Rights Council, called upon the Belarusian government to release more than 1000 activists, opposition members, journalists, and dissenting citizens detained on “politically motivated charges.”

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DECEMBER 25, 2022

President of Pakistan, Dr Arif Alvi Friday approved the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Bill 2022 (‘The Bill’) which abolishes colonial law regarding the criminalisation of attempting suicide.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 3, 2024

.” Slavery is a jus cogens peremptory norm, and those who perpetrate it are held to be hostis humani generis under customary international law. The abolition of slavery is also governed by Article 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery.

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JURIST

APRIL 10, 2024

” The government has yet to reply to the statement. ” The government refused the allegations, counter-arguing that RSF’s statement amounted to an interference with the judicial proceedings and undermined the rule of law.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Act is modeled after the Disha Act passed by the government of Andhra Pradesh state last year. Known as the “Shakti Act”, the Maharashtra bill makes numerous changes to existing laws. The Act represents a significant expense to the Maharashtra government, and it may face pushback on those grounds.

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JURIST

JUNE 3, 2024

The Chinese Ministry of State Security on Monday published a statement accusing the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 of turning two unnamed Chinese state employees into spies for the British government. Under Article 110 of the Chinese Criminal Law , a person convicted of espionage could be subject to life imprisonment.

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JURIST

JUNE 23, 2021

The “ecocide” amendment would remedy this problem, and give the ICC authority to hold business and government leaders for their actions in times of peace. The member states must then secure a two-thirds majority to fully adopt the draft law before each individual nation ratifies and can enforce the law.

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JUNE 3, 2021

The Chinese government released casualty figures from the Galwan Valley clash that asserted that only four Chinese soldiers were killed in the clash with Indian troops. However, Ziming, a 38-year-old internet celebrity on Weibo, suggested that China’s fatalities in the Galwan clash were higher than reported by the Chinese government.

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JURIST

JANUARY 4, 2024

The Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection of Beijing, China on Wednesday rolled out a list with 10 categories of wrongdoings to avoid for government officials who deal with entrepreneurs in the city to give a push to the private sector.

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APRIL 23, 2023

When ATF’s final rule went into effect, Cargill surrendered his bump stocks to the government and went to federal court to challenge the regulation. Cargill , the government the justices to weigh in. The government emphasizes that the justices previously declined to review three separate rulings by the U.S. .

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Following a months-long blockade that culminated in violent attacks by Azerbaijani forces, the government of the predominantly ethnic Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh announced Thursday it would disband, effective immediately.

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JURIST

JUNE 17, 2024

The prosecution’s indictment , which was published by the Free Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing group, accused them of organizing meetings to discuss social topics to incite citizens’ dissatisfaction with the Chinese government.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The US conceded that such a task was not required, but that the “utter absence” of support highlighted courts’ resistance to interpret criminal law in a way that supported Taylor’s claims. That’s not how Congress writes laws, and that’s not how we interpret them.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2022

” The group had plotted an attack on the police and sought to destroy power lines and transformers as part of a larger plan to overthrow the government. Pursuant to Egypt’s criminal law, death sentences are referred to the Grand Mufti, Egypt’s top religious authority, before the court confirms the verdict.

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JURIST

JUNE 13, 2023

The Netherlands and Canada jointly submitted a case against Syria to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing the Syrian government of committing numerous violations of international law, including torture, since the beginning of the country’s civil war in 2011.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The scrutiny primarily centered on the Turkish government’s conduct towards legal practitioners specializing in criminal law and human rights. The joint statement followed the conclusion of a fact-finding mission conducted within the nation.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Extending the reach of labor inspectorates into high-risk sectors and building more effective bridges between labor and criminal law enforcement is also critical in this regard. 203) provides a strategic framework for comprehensive action against forced labor.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2021

Navy Captain named Kirk Waits presided over the commission before becoming the Deputy Director of the Navy Office of the Judge Advocate General Criminal Law Division of the Department of Defense. A commission was formed in 2014 to handle his case and try him for war crimes and conspiring to commit terrorist attacks.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

.” Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar responded , “All law enforcement has been asked to apprehend culprits and bring them to justice. Rest assured that the government of Pakistan stands with our citizenry on equal basis.”

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JURIST

MAY 9, 2024

Syrian and international human rights groups and victims’ associations called upon the French government to support the independent investigation against Bashar Al-Assad on the 2013 Syrian chemical attack in a joint statement published on Wednesday.

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JURIST

APRIL 23, 2021

million from the Japanese government. The court, presided by Judge Min Seong-cheol, ruled that the Japanese government enjoys sovereign immunity under customary international law, by which principle it is exempt from the jurisdiction of courts in other countries. The 20 plaintiffs filed the suit in 2016 and sought about $2.7

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JURIST

AUGUST 15, 2021

A media consortium investigation discovered that the technology was being used by less-than-scrupulous government actors to monitor high-profile persons of interest, including journalists and human rights activists. An NPR report later revealed that NSO had suspended government clients in the wake of the report for possible misuse.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Bolsonaro has repeatedly stated that his government has been the victim of an international “campaign of lies” and asserts that no country protects the environment better than Brazil. Likewise, accepting the case could deter other governments from enacting environmentally destructive policies.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2020

These reports challenged the official narrative of the outbreak provided by the Chinese government. She has been on a hunger strike since June, believing that the government has violated her freedom of speech. Zhang’s videos also depicted hospitals, empty city streets and train stations, and a crematorium.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Zimbabwean Vice President Constantino Chiwenga warned young people in the country on Thursday that the government will block all higher education scholarships from LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations. ” Zimbabwe has passed laws criminalizing homosexuality.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The Vidhi Centre aimed to ascertain the extent to which Indian criminal law provisions were effective in checking public behaviour in accordance with COVID-19 restricting measures in Delhi. Fines were intended to be the primary form of punishment for COVID policy violations with FIRs to follow only on non-payment of such fine.

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