カテゴリー: Law
Assailed by a hostile press, police and judiciary, Michael Vidler left the city with pride at having tried to improve the lives of ordinary peopleMichael Vidler has built his legal career on fighting for the “little guy” in Hong Kong, from high-profile…
Group who worked with UK media to sue government over failure to relocate them to BritainA group of Afghan journalists who worked closely with the UK media for years have revealed how they face beatings, death threats and months in hiding, and accuse t…
Signatories of legal opinion say territory’s government is using continued presence of overseas judges as ‘vote of confidence’International judicial figures including the former UK attorney general Sir Robert Buckland have warned the remaining British,…
Fawzia Amini advocates for rights of Afghan women and girls from London hotel room she’s been stuck in for nine monthsOne of Afghanistan’s top female judges has been honoured with an international human rights award while she continues her work to advo…
One in 25 people sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges in Konasheher, Xinjiang province, where Communist party represses Muslim minorityNearly one in 25 people in a county of the Uyghur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on terr…
Jagtar Singh Johal has been detained since 2017 and allegedly tortured, accused of helping to fund assassination plotThe UK is under pressure to insist India release Jagtar Singh Johal, a British citizen, after a UN working group ruled he had been arbi…
Court rules long-criticised military sodomy law shouldn’t apply to consensual sex off base in off-duty hoursSouth Korea’s supreme court has thrown out a military court ruling that convicted two gay soldiers for having sex outside their military facilit…
Decision in case of murder suspect Kyung Yup Kim concludes government can trust Chinese assurances extradited defendants will not face tortureNew Zealand’s courts have ruled the government can extradite to China a man suspected of murder – a landmark r…
Guardian investigation finds labourers – including those on World Cup-related projects – were left with huge debtsLow-wage migrant workers have been forced to pay billions of dollars in recruitment fees to secure their jobs in World Cup host nation Qat…
Canberra protests as court verdict deferred after closed-door, one-day trialGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingA Chinese court has deferred its verdict after the closed-door national security trial of the Australian journalist Cheng L…
Judges resign saying administration has ‘departed from values of political freedom and freedom of expression’UK judges have withdrawn from Hong Kong’s court of final appeal, citing concerns that their continued participation would appear to endorse the…
Abu Zubaydah, tortured at CIA ‘black sites’ in six different countries, has right to sue UK governmentUK intelligence services who allegedly asked the CIA to put questions to a detainee who was being tortured in “black sites” were subject to the law of…
Court rules government failed to fulfil obligation to collect correct amount of customs duties and VATThe British government faces paying a hefty charge to the EU after the European court of justice ruled it had been negligent in allowing criminal gang…
Zahir Jaffer tortured and beheaded Noor Mukadam, in July last year, in case that sparked outrage over violence against womenA court in Islamabad has sentenced to death the tycoon’s son who raped and murdered Noor Mukadam, a case that sparked outrage in…
Military, which seized power in February 2021, seeks to throw out UN case alleging it committed genocideMyanmar’s military junta has appeared in place of the detained Aung San Suu Kyi at the UN’s top court, where it sought to throw out a case alleging …