US immigration enforcement faced mounting scrutiny Friday from international officials, American voters and congressional Democrats amid a detainee death ruled a homicide by the county medical ...

Police and prosecutors from Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname announced Thursday the arrest of nearly 200 individuals in a transnational operation to combat illegal gold mining in the ...

Victor Qiu is a JURIST Washington, D.C. correspondent and an attorney. The views expressed in this article are his own and in his personal capacity. On the morning of Wednesday, January 21, I ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Thursday for accountability for the toxic spills that have affected children living near Lega Dembi gold mine in Ethiopia, urging the UN Committee on the Rights of ...

UN officials warned on Wednesday that Haiti's crisis has reached a critical phase as violence escalates, with entrenched criminal networks and extensive humanitarian needs fueling national ...

A Texas court found a former school police officer not guilty on charges stemming from the reportedly delayed police response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. Jesse ...

Amnesty International released a statement Thursday as a trial begins for activists who organized an annual vigil commemorating the protestors who were killed in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. The ...

The Nara district court sentenced Tetsuya Yamagami on Wednesday to life in prison following his assassination of Japan's former Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe. He pleaded guilty to murder, having shot ...

Togo's Ministry of Justice on Tuesday confirmed the extradition of former Burkinabè transitional president Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba to Burkina Faso, following accusations of ...

Amnesty International on Thursday called on Kazakhstan to immediately drop criminal charges against 19 activists who are part of the Atajurt human rights movement and face up to 10 years in prison ...

A Georgia man pleaded guilty to wire fraud in US federal court on Wednesday after engineering 'the largest Ponzi scheme in Georgia history,' defrauding over 2,000 investors of over $380 million. The ...

Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School.  The Supreme ...