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The Iraq Ministry of Communications announced Sunday that it had blocked the messaging app Telegram, citing national security concerns. Conor Courtney, a trainee at the Law Society of Ireland, reports. https://www.jurist.org/news/2023/08/iraq-blocks-messaging-app-telegram-over-alleged-national-security-fears/

Marking the Day of International Criminal Justice, Liz Evenson, International Justice Director at @humanrightswatch@mastodon.online, calls on the international community to take concrete steps to ensure equal access to justice for victims around the globe. https://tinyurl.com/bddyeff7

Myanmar’s military junta, accused of illegitimacy by party it overthrew in 2021 coup, adds new laws prohibiting election applications by groups associated with state-declared terrorist acts. @UniofNewcastle@twitter.com's Ting Yan Grace Wong writes:
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“What we’ve learned from this,” Herman points out, “is that there is now an activist owner of Twitter who may micromanage the platform, remove people from the platform, and sway the conversation in a certain way.”

https://www.jurist.org/news/2023/01/journalist-banned-from-twitter-says-its-important-that-users-not-self-censor/

"A Michigan federal judge Tuesday sentenced Adam Fox to 16 years in prison for leading a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer." JURIST US Breau Chief and Pitt Law 2L Lauren Ban has more. https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/12/leader-of-plot-to-kidnap-michigan-governor-sentenced-to-16-years-prison/

In this JURIST feature, Nucharee Smith, a law professor at #Thailand's Kasetsart University, and Robert Smith, a Ph.D. candidate in law at the University of New England, Australia, consider Thailand's recent criminalization of forced disappearances and #torture. https://www.jurist.org/features/2022/12/27/explainer-enforced-disappearances-and-torture-finally-criminal-offences-in-thailand/

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China Tuesday announced an end to certain restrictions on international arrivals posed by the country’s 'zero-COVID' policies that have been in place since 2020." Pitt Law's Madeline Bruce has more. https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/12/china-ends-covid-19-travel-and-quarantine-restrictions/

The new Israeli coalition government led by Benjamin Netanyahu is running into early domestic criticism. From Tel Aviv, JURIST Israel staff correspondent Yael Isolovich files this dispatch. https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/12/israel-dispatch-controversial-coalition-bill-allows-party-leader-lately-convicted-of-tax-fraud-to-serve-as-government-minister/

From Newcastle Law School in Newcastle, New South Wales, #Australia, Ting Yan Grace Wong files this report on growing tensions between #China and #Taiwan.

https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/12/taiwan-announces-extension-of-compulsory-military-service-amid-china-military-threats/

The latest feature by JURIST staffer Cornelis van Haperen, a former officer in the Dutch Air Force and a UK defense and security consultant who recently completed his LLM in Public International Law at the University of Nottingham.

https://www.jurist.org/features/2022/12/27/a-review-of-the-legal-framework-for-un-peacekeeping-in-mali-are-european-governments-abandoning-ship/

"UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) head Ramiz Alakbarov Monday called for a reversal of the decision to ban women from domestic and international NGO humanitarian jobs, in a meeting with Economy Minister Qari Din Mohammad Hanif in Kabul." Akanksh Naik, from National Law University in Delhi, India, reports. https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/12/un-official-meets-taliban-authorities-to-withdraw-ban-on-women-working-in-ngos/

@JURISTnews@journa.host Editor-in-Chief Bernard Hibbitts is now on Mastodon @hibbitts@mastodon.lawprofs.org, complete with a snazzy JURIST photo from last week's Zelensky-Biden press conference, taken by our own Joshua Cossin in the East Room!

#Pakistan has abolished their colonial-era criminalization of suicide. Sarthak Gupta has the story: https://buff.ly/3vipyxk

#UK Prime Minister #RishiSunak stated that it was reasonable for the UK government to potentially block a #transgender bill passed in #Scotland. Syed Taha Anzar writes: https://buff.ly/3jt3zRV

Zambian President #HakaindeHichilema has abolished the death penalty in #Zambia. Sarthak Gupta has more: https://buff.ly/3FRBgE9

The Taliban’s announcement that women in Afghanistan would be banned from attending university drew sharp criticism from around the globe Wednesday. https://tinyurl.com/2938h2ad

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VOA Statement Regarding the Suspension of VOA's Chief National Correspondent's Twitter Account #AFreePressMatters https://www.insidevoa.com/a/voa-statement-regarding-the-suspension-of-voa-s-chief-national-correspondent-s-twitter-account-/6879830.html

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