JURIST Daily Digest
In the 16 August 2016 edition:
Today's Legal News- Hong Kong protest leaders avoid jail time at sentencing
- UN rights experts concerned over Bahrain persecution of Shias
- Trump’s Invitation To Hack Or To Share The Spoils Of A Hack
- The Freedom of Information Act Was Just Amended. Here’s What Changed—And Didn’t.
- On Human Rights, California is Better than Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, and Texas!
- Indigenous Legal Orders as a Challenge to the Mainstream International Environmental Law Regime
- The Third Time’s The Charm?
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Hong Kong protest leaders avoid jail time at sentencing
By Jaclyn Belczyk on Aug 15, 2016 02:34 pm
A Hong Kong court on Monday sentenced three leaders of the 2014 pro-democracy protests who were convicted on charges related to their occupation of a government building. Joshua Wong and Alex Chow, prominent leaders of the Umbrella Revolution [Guardian backgrounder], were convicted of unlawful assembly, while a third activist, Nathan Law, was found to have incited others to join that unlawful assembly. The court sentenced [HKFP report] Wong and Law to 80 and 120 hours of community service, respectively. Chow... +read more
UN rights experts concerned over Bahrain persecution of Shias
By Jaclyn Belczyk on Aug 15, 2016 01:16 pm
A group of independent UN human rights experts on Monday expressed concern [press release] over Bahrain's persecution of the Shia population. The experts said, "[t]he intensified wave of arrests, detentions, summons, interrogations and criminal charges brought against numerous Shia religious clerics and singers, human rights defenders and peaceful dissidents is having a chilling effect on fundamental human rights." They noted that Shias are being charged with illegal gathering, inciting hatred against the regime, money laundering and acts of terrorism and... +read more
Latest Legal Commentary
Trump’s Invitation To Hack Or To Share The Spoils Of A Hack
By Albert Scherr on Aug 07, 2016 10:23 am
JURIST Guest Columnist Albert E. Scherr of University of New Hampshire School of Law discusses Donald Trumps's recent statements... +read more
The Freedom of Information Act Was Just Amended. Here’s What Changed—And Didn’t.
By Jonathan Bruno on Jul 29, 2016 06:03 pm
JURIST Guest Columnist Jonathan Bruno of the Harvard Law School discusses recent changes to and ongoing limitations of the Freedom of Information Act... +read more
On Human Rights, California is Better than Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, and Texas!
By Stephen Cooper on Jul 22, 2016 01:36 pm
JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Cooper, a former DC public defender, addresses prosecutor Michele Hanisee's remarks concerning the death penalty in California... +read more
Indigenous Legal Orders as a Challenge to the Mainstream International Environmental Law Regime
By Mahmudul Hasan on Jul 19, 2016 10:26 am
JURIST Guest Columnist Mahmudul Hasan of University of Development Alternative discusses how international environmental law can be influenced by indigenous orders... +read more
The Third Time’s The Charm?
By Allen Hammond on Jul 16, 2016 01:54 pm
JURIST Guest Columnist Allen Hammond of the Santa Clara Law School discusses a recent net neutrality ruling and what it means for the future of the internet... +read more
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