Eight human rights organizations called on Kyrgyzstan authorities on Friday to take necessary measures for the safety of Makhabat Tazhibek Kyzy, an imprisoned human rights defender who has received death threats from a fellow prisoner. Tazhibek Kyzy is the director of the YouTube-based media outlet Tazhibek Kyzy, founded by her husband in 2020. The media The post Kyrgyzstan urged to ensure safety of imprisoned human rights defender  appeared first on JURIST – News.

The US Supreme Court on Friday unanimously rejected the legal theory of a group of Holocaust survivors demanding that Hungary pay reparations for confiscating their property during World War II. The court’s opinion in Republic of Hungary v. Simon was delivered by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who stated that foreign states are granted “presumptive immunity from The post US Supreme Court rejects Holocaust survivors’ claim for compensation from Hungary appeared first on JURIST – News.

The Committee to Protect Journalists urged Ghanaian authorities Thursday to investigate the attack on five journalists who covered the elections in the southern Ashanti Region. The attack occurred at the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council while the journalists were covering electoral officers counting votes. It was reportedly triggered by the defeat of National Democratic Congress (NDC) The post Ghana authorities urged to investigate attacks on journalists appeared first on JURIST – News.

The Taliban announced on Thursday that Afghanistan would no longer recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), asserting that Afghanistan’s 2003 accession to the Rome Statute is declared to be legally void after ICC prosecutor Karim Khan sought arrest warrants for Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and the Chief Justice of Afghanistan Abdul The post Taliban rejects ICC jurisdiction, declares 2003 Rome Statute accession void appeared first on JURIST – News.