JURIST

AUGUST 26, 2023

On Thursday, 38-year-old Burmese hip-hop artist Byu Har was sentenced to 20 years in prison for purportedly critiquing the present military-administered state. A family member of Har shared the verdict details with the Associated Press. This judgment stemmed from his arrest on May 24, following a live-stream on Facebook where he referred to the current government as “incompetent” and criticized the Electricity Minister’s inability to ensure sufficient power supply in Yangon.

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AUGUST 26, 2023

“How a Judge’s Ruling on Torture Imperils a Guantánamo Prosecution Strategy; In dismissing a confession in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, Col. Lanny J. Acosta Jr. has shaken a foundation of U.S. government cases at the post-9/11 court”: Carol Rosenberg will have this news analysis in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times. The post “How a Judge’s Ruling on Torture Imperils a Guantánamo Prosecution Strategy; In dismissing a confession in the bombing of the U.S.S.

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JURIST

AUGUST 26, 2023

A UN Human Rights Committee on Follow-Up Rapporteur Friday published findings that Spain failed to implement a landmark United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) decision in the Baltasar Garzón v Spain case. The report was sent directly to Garzón’s international legal representative, Helen Duffy, of Human Rights in Practice. Speaking on the report, Human Rights in Practice released a statement claiming that its content: … makes clear that Spain has wholly failed to implement the UN Comm

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AUGUST 26, 2023

“Two Justices Clash on Congress’s Power Over Supreme Court Ethics; For the second summer in a row, Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Elena Kagan sketched out dueling conceptions of their institution’s place in the constitutional structure”: Adam Liptak has this new installment of his “Sidebar” column online at The New York Times.

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AUGUST 26, 2023

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Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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AUGUST 26, 2023

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands affirmed on Friday that Palestinians are precluded from bringing legal action against Israeli military officers for their involvement in an airstrike on the Gaza Strip dated back to 2014. The highest Dutch court upheld the decisions of lower court judges , ruling that Benny Gantz and former Chief of Air Staff Amir Eshel are shielded from prosecution in the Netherlands due to their immunity status.

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AUGUST 26, 2023

Below is my column in The Messenger on the expanding evidence in the Biden corruption scandal and the need for Congress to take commensurate action to investigate the matter. After this column ran, Fox’s Brian Kilmeade conducted an interview with Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin. What was striking about the interview is not just the contradiction with other accounts (like insisting that he was investigating Burisma and the investigation was expanding when he was fired), but that he cla

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