Samridh Chaturvedi is a JURIST correspondent and a third-year law student at the School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University) where he covers legal, policy, and human rights developments in India.

A Damascus criminal court sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia Tuesday after convicting him of murder, torture, arbitrary detention, and crimes against humanity, ...

Türkiye's Parliament on Monday announced that it had passed a new law creating conditional legal mechanisms for certain members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a shift signifying advancing ...

When the head of Iraq’s Federal Board of Supreme Audit brought the board’s annual report before the Council of Representatives last week, Parliament did something it had not done since 2003: it ...

UN experts on Monday decried the recent surge of violence and human rights abuses against civilians across Gaza and the Occupied West Bank, voicing concern that the human rights crisis continues to ...

Amnesty International on Monday urged candidates in Zambia's upcoming August 13 general elections to show a clear and genuine commitment to reversing the nation's troubling authoritarian slide, ...

The Hong Kong Court of Appeal on Monday granted leave to 11 applicants to appeal their national security convictions to the ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday urging states to scale back school immunization requirements and directing the attorney general to pursue litigation against states that fail ...

A US federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump likely lacks legal authority to demolish and rebuild portions of the White House without congressional approval. The ruling upholds ...

Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Chinese authorities to immediately release a human rights activist who was detained ...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Tom Andrews on Wednesday stated that Cambodia has ...

The UN on Tuesday warned that strikes on civilian infrastructure, including on active classrooms and school buildings, are ...