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OCTOBER 12, 2021

Five international rights groups are urging Algerian authorities to drop their effort to dissolve a prominent civil society group over alleged violation of the law on associations, Human Rights Watch stated in a report on Monday. alongside millions of Algerians in order to find a unifying and consensual way out of the crisis.”.

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APRIL 6, 2024

The council also extended the mandates of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran and Myanmar and the independent international fact-finding mission on Iran. Amnesty International alleged these strikes amounted to war crimes under customary international humanitarian law.

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JURIST

MARCH 3, 2025

Addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Trk called for renewed commitments to international law and human rights, emphasizing the urgent need for collective action in multiplying crises. He urged the international community to resist the forces of division and prioritize human dignity in policymaking.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Several human rights organizations announced on Friday the creation of an international support committee for freedoms in Tunisia in response to increasing authoritarianism under President Kais Saied. By creating this committee, we want to initiate a surge of international solidarity in support of Tunisian civil society.

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JURIST

MARCH 10, 2023

Amnesty International Friday called for Tunisia to put an immediate end to racist and xenophobic attacks targeting Black African migrants. Amnesty International interviewed 20 migrants who were victims of racist mob attacks. Amnesty International interviewed 20 migrants who were victims of racist mob attacks.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

HRW highlighted that Tunisia cannot use pretrial detention that can harm rights to freedom of opinion, expression, association, and assembly under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights. The Tunisian authorities did not implement any recommendations.

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JURIST

JULY 25, 2023

Human Rights Watch (HRW), along with 13 other human rights organizations such as Access Now and the Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR), called on the Jordanian government on Monday to withdraw a proposed cybercrime law currently under discussion in Parliament. Article 24 increases online censorship and hinders free expression.

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JURIST

JULY 13, 2024

CPJ’s Interim MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Program Coordinator Yeganeh Rezaian stated: It is unacceptable that authorities have not disclosed where he is being held or the reason for his arrest … Authorities must immediately and unconditionally free al-Sanussi and ensure he is returned home safely.

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JURIST

JULY 31, 2024

Amnesty International released a report on Tuesday criticizing the living conditions of the residents of the Samos Closed Controlled Access Centre (CCAC) in Greece. The report stated that the arbitrary detention of the refugees violated European standards and international law.

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JURIST

JUNE 11, 2022

The organizations called Decree 2022-35 an assault on the rule of law, and asked for its immediate revocation and reinstatement of judges dismissed under its provisions. ” The president’s dismissal decisions are made exempt from any instant appeal by the decree.

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JURIST

MAY 16, 2021

On Thursday, the UK government imposed new sanctions on Libya’s al-Kaniyat militia and its leaders for violations of international law. The post UK imposes sanctions on Libyan al-Kaniyat militia for international law violations appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

MARCH 24, 2024

.” Similarly, The news network urged authorities to release Al-Sheikh, who was arrested in August 2021 in Cairo, stating that “[h]is detention exceeds the pretrial period stipulated by Egyptian law” A court in Egypt previously extended the detention of Ibrahim along with another journalist, Hisham Abdelaziz, in February 2023.

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JURIST

AUGUST 13, 2024

Free speech organization Article 19 urged the government of Algeria to repeal recent amendments made to the Algerian Penal Code to align with international freedom of expression standards in a statement published on Monday. These changes to the law will empower them to further erase political and social dissidence in Algeria.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2022

Menoufy was a passenger on a direct flight from Khartoum, Sudan to Istanbul, Turkey when his plane unexpectedly landed at Luxor International Airport. HRW Deputy Middle East Director Joe Stork called the disappearance a “serious crime.” ” Menoufy is an Egyptian national and has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

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JURIST

MARCH 1, 2024

. “Ongoing abuses including torture and enforced disappearances of those who live under Turkish authority in northern Syria will continue unless Türkiye itself takes responsibility and acts to stop them,” HRW Deputy Middle East Director Adam Coogle said.

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JURIST

MARCH 13, 2024

Marissa Zupancic is JURIST’s Washington DC Correspondent, a JURIST Senior Editor and a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. This week I attended a talk hosted by Georgetown University entitled “Kurds in Iraq, Iran, Syria and Türkiye: At the Epicenter of Conflict in the Middle East.”

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JURIST

JULY 7, 2022

A report by the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) and the Freedom Initiative found that a 1994 interior ministry decree empowers security agencies to impose travel bans without court orders for a renewable three-year period. The bans are also open-ended in many cases.

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JURIST

MAY 28, 2024

The charges against Tantawy were brought in accordance with Decree-Law 45/2014 on the Regulation of the Exercise of Political Rights , which prohibits “printing or distributing, in any way, election ballots or documents used in the electoral process” and sets a minimum sentence of one year in prison.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Such aggressive actions carry the risk of igniting a broader conflict in the Middle East, a region historically fraught with complex geopolitical tensions and frequent military confrontations. The post Israel bars UN Secretary-General amidst rising fears of all-out war in the Middle East appeared first on JURIST - News.

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MAY 13, 2025

Amnesty International (AI) said in a press release on Tuesday that Kenyan women working as domestic workers in Saudi Arabia face extreme exploitation amounting to slavery and human trafficking The press release summarizes a 50-page report AI released the previous day, detailing the inhumane treatment of the women by their employers.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Amnesty International on Monday called on the US to provide urgent humanitarian aid to more than 8000 displaced Syrians in the Rukban camp, a remote area in southeast Syria that borders Jordan and Iraq. Under international humanitarian law, an occupation takes place when the hostile army is in effective control of the territory.

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JURIST

AUGUST 29, 2022

Michael Page , deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch, also a signatory to the initiative, said: Houthi restrictions have forced civilians to use dangerous and poorly maintained mountain roads that are the only connection between Taizz city’s besieged population and the rest of the world.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Lithuania’s Minister of Justice Ewelina Dobrowolska on Thursday announced that the Lithuanian government will be filing a complaint against Belarus for “non-compliance” with international law regarding exploitative migration.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In November, for instance, UNIFIL stated that the Israeli military’s destruction of property in Ras Naqooura, southern Lebanon, violated international law. UNIFIL has previously warned against violations of the agreement and against Israeli operations in Lebanon.

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JULY 25, 2022

Amnesty International fears the new constitution will continue to erode Tunisia’s democracy and have repercussions around the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Saied stated the first step after the constitution’s passage is to “draft an election law.”

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2025

HRW acknowledges that the declaration includes commendable elements, such as the repeal of extraordinary laws imposed during Assads rule, the reversal of unjust terrorism-related sentences, the return of seized assets, and the establishment of transitional justice frameworks aimed at addressing past wrongdoings.

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JURIST

JULY 31, 2021

The Council of the European Union Friday announced that it had adopted a framework for the imposition of sanctions against individuals and entities it determines have undermined the rule of law and democracy in Lebanon.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2024

Migration issues have become a greater and greater issue in the EU as ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and Africa have forced millions from their homes to try and seek a new life. Legislators insist that this new legislation is only the first step toward further defining the relationship between EU states and migrants.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Law students from the University of Ottawa are filing dispatches for JURIST on the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Canada’s capital that has paralyzed the city for some three weeks. That is international law.” Here, 3L Andrew Warkentin reports. .

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Customs & International Trade Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced an administrative settlement with a penalty amount of $432,570, for Alfa Laval US of Richmond, VA and Alfa Laval Middle East Ltd. Associate Attorney of Diaz Trade Law, Sharath Patil , assists U.S. Internal Program for Handling Compliance Problems . Exporters .

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JURIST

MAY 31, 2022

Amnesty International on Monday called on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to immediately release a group of dissidents who have been behind bars beyond the end of their prison sentences. The post Amnesty International calls for release of dissidents arbitrarily detained by UAE appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

MARCH 11, 2024

Aidana Tastanova is a Kazakhstan national and a 4th-year law student attending the Moscow State Institute of International Relations under a Kazakh government scholarship. In May 2024, Kazakhstan, together with Australia, will head the International Conference of the IAEA on Nuclear Security.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The rapporteur emphasized that this shift in perspective could explain the EU’s muted response to Trkiye’s internal issues. Accession negotiations formally began in 2005 but have stalled due to concerns over human rights, the rule of law, and democratic governance.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Oakley Capital, a major European private equity investor, has acquired majority ownership of vLex , the international legal research platform. vLex is unique among legal research services for its breadth of international coverage. vLex is unique among legal research services for its breadth of international coverage.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

The international legal research service vLex said today it has partnered with some of the world’s leading news publishers to launch a new Global News product on its platform. . Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, it said. “In vLex is unique among legal research services for its breadth of international coverage.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Written by Georgia Antonopoulou (Birmingham Law School) & Xandra Kramer (Erasmus University/Utrecht University ; research funded by an NWO Vici grant, www.euciviljustice.eu ). In May 2022, the House of Representatives in Cyprus passed Law 69(I)/2022 on the Establishment and Operation of the Commercial Court and Admiralty Court.

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JULY 14, 2021

In a statement provided to Bloomberg on Wednesday, a representative for Nike stated that “Nike is subject to and rigorously ensures that it complies with all the same tax laws as other companies operating in the Netherlands.” ” The case is Nike European Operations Netherlands et Converse Netherlands v.

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