KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Constitutional amendments approved by the Pakistani parliament to “regulate” some of the top judiciary’s powers on Monday prompted ire from the local and international legal fraternity, including the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). Deriding the passage of the 26th Constitutional Amendment into la...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s parliament passed legislation Sunday to regulate the country’s judicial system in a step that critics warn will “damage” the country’s constitution. The legislation, titled the 26th Constitutional Amendment Bill 2024, sailed through both the upper Senate and lower National...
The United States has charged a former Indian intelligence officer who allegedly directed a foiled plot to murder a Sikh separatist in New York City last year. An indictment of Vikash Yadav was ordered to be unsealed on Thursday, court records showed. Yadav was a former officer in India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) spy […]
A local court in Bangladesh has issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Hasina fled to India on August 5 on charges of crimes against humanity. The crimes were allegedly committed during mass student protests in July and August this year. The warrant was issued on Thursday by the International Crimes Tribunal [&helli...
The Hague (AA) – A group of 20 Palestinians have filed a criminal complaint with the Dutch Public Prosecutor’s Office against Israel for impeding and influencing an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the genocide in Gaza. The complaint came following the publication in May this year of an extensive investigation...
ANKARA (AA) – The top Indian court has blamed the British colonial rule for “discriminatory norms” in prisons across the South Asian nation. The colonial history of India “indicates that British modelled their discriminatory norms in prisons in India,” said Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, according to Live Law news. The British ruled...
Special counsel Jack Smith has laid out the pathway for his election interference case against former President Donald Trump. This is in the wake of the Supreme Court’s immunity decision, which describes Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election results as a “private criminal effort.” Smith’s 165-page filing was unsealed on Wednesday. It ...
The California chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) is celebrating the signing of Assembly Bill 2377 by Gov. Gavin Newsom. This new legislation guarantees K-12 students the right to observe religious fasting with appropriate accommodations during physical education classes. Authored by Assembly member Luz Rivas, the law ...
LONDON (AA) – Two climate activists who threw soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting in 2022 have been jailed by a London court. Anna Holland, 22, and Phoebe Plummer, 23, have been jailed for their controversial protest to raise awareness about climate change at the National Gallery in October 2022. Holland and Plummer — [&...
At a recent rally in Pennsylvania, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ignited controversy by suggesting that critics of federal judges, including Supreme Court justices, should face jail time. Trump praised the justices for what he called their “bravery” in overturning Roe v. Wade, claiming it should be illegal for indi...
