The United Nations human rights office has urged Sri Lanka to substantially redraft its proposed Protection of the State from Terrorism (PSTA) Bill before enactment, warning that the legislation retains serious deficiencies
The law has always advanced in uneasy tandem with technology, often trailing it, sometimes resisting it, but ultimately reshaping itself in response to what society chooses to deploy in the real world.
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South Korea’s special prosecutor is expected to make a sentencing request for former President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection, Reuters reports, following a brief but controversial attempt to impose martial
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When I recently criticized Sri Lanka’s proposed Prevention of State Terrorism Bill (PSTA), several well-meaning individuals close to the National People’s Power (NPP) urged me to reconsider my stance. I appreciate their
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Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala confirmed in the Sri Lankan Parliament today that investigations have revealed Sarah Jasmine is not dead, though authorities have not been able to verify whether she is
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Editor’s Note: Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith are among the most influential contemporary American legal scholars writing on executive power, constitutional structure, and the law of the presidency. Bauer, a Professor of
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by Luxman Aravind In the predawn darkness of 20 December 1989, the streets of Panama City erupted in chaos as the United States launched Operation Just Cause to capture General Manuel Noriega,
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After almost six months of a US large-scale air-naval offensive against Iran’s underground nuclear reactors to reassert its security credibility in the Middle East, following Israel’s strikes in Qatar that crossed the
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The U.S. Department of Justice has formally indicted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in the Southern District of New York, Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced on Twitter. Maduro
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Italian prosecutors have arrested nine people on suspicion of financing Hamas through charity organisations operating in Italy, in an operation coordinated by anti-mafia and anti-terrorism units, authorities said on Saturday. Prosecutors in
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Whatever may be said or debated, one fundamental reality must be acknowledged: in the contemporary threat environment, no responsible state can function without a comprehensive legal framework to protect itself and its
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John Koch, 76, has spent nearly four decades covering every execution in Florida, including the recent lethal injection of Frank Athen Walls. Traveling from his northern Florida home to the state prison
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Australia’s most populous state has passed sweeping new gun control and anti-terrorism laws in response to last month’s mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, significantly tightening firearm ownership rules, expanding police powers
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The December 14 mass shooting in Sydney, Australia, aimed at the Jewish community during Hanukkah celebrations on Bondi Beach, stunned the world. Fifteen people were killed, including a 10-year-old child. Instead of tackling antisemitism
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Across the world today, youth energy is being squandered — not for lack of ideals, but for lack of direction. Instead of confronting entrenched injustice, too many young voices are being recruited
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Serbia’s public prosecutor on Monday filed an indictment against the country’s culture minister over his alleged role in stripping protected status from a historically significant site, a decision that cleared the way
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