Criminal proceedings against Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei began on Wednesday in a closely watched US federal trial, bringing renewed scrutiny to allegations first made nearly eight years ago that the company stole
Philippe Sands’s 38 Londres Street is ostensibly an investigation into two notorious men—Augusto Pinochet and Walther Rauff—but its deeper subject is something far more unsettling: the astonishing durability of impunity. Sands has
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In the early hours of a winter morning in Ghaziabad’s Sahibabad area, the stillness of Bharat City housing society was shattered by a sound residents would later describe as unimaginable. Three sisters,
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After a year of mounting pressure from both Washington and Beijing, Panama has taken a decisive step to reclaim control over the infrastructure that defines its global importance, moving to distance itself
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“Why did you keep Shiva Pasupathi in place, Sir? Wasn’t he Sirimavo’s man…?” This was how ministers within J. R. Jayewardene’s Cabinet questioned his decision to retain Shiva Pasupathi as Attorney General—a
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Lady Brenda Hale’s With the Law on Our Side arrives at a moment when public confidence in democratic institutions is increasingly fragile and governments across liberal democracies are testing the limits of
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“A person stands a better chance of being tried and judged for killing one human being than for killing 100,000.” ~ José Ayala Lasso, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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When the gavel falls in silence, tyranny often wears the robes of justice. The Supreme Court, once the bulwark of constitutionalism, has in numerous post-colonial states become an unchallengeable citadel of finality—an
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Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines, who oversees 18 separate agencies comprising the wider “intelligence community”—including the CIA, FBI, and NSA—has released a “policy framework for commercially available information.” It is not only
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In all democratic countries, including the USA and India, the judiciary has become a decisive and powerful entity, often influencing events more than the government by overturning government decisions. Some discerning observers
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“Originalism gives the Constitution the capacity to be a continuing source of legitimacy for courts – one that cannot easily be dismissed as the imposition of a court’s own values.” ~ Supreme
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