Assange granted leave to appeal to UK Supreme Court against extradition
By Oscar Grenfell, Thomas Scripps The UK High Court has provided WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a route to appeal to the Supreme Court in his extradition case against the United States government. Assange is seeking to overturn the High Court’s direction last December that he be extradited, against the earlier ruling of
US Supreme Court narrowly holds Student Free Speech Rights
In a victory for student speech rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a former cheerleader's online F-bombs about her school is protected speech under the First Amendment. But in an 8-1 vote, the court also declared that school administrators do have the power to punish student speech that occurs
Poet and Teacher Ahnaf Jazeem’s PTA case called in Courts Today (22 June)
The case against Sri Lankan Muslim Poet Ahnaf Jazeem in Colombo Chief Magistrate Court was called today (22). Submissions and applications were made by Counsel for Ahnaf upon a motion filed for the same. Officers of the Counter Terrorism and Investigation Division (TID) were unavailable in Courts though the case
In a Suo Motu Case, Indian Supreme Court holds against Government’s clampdown on social media activism sharing pandemic information
Sharing Information Widely an Important Tool to Combat COVID : Supreme Court On SOS Calls In Social Media The Supreme Court has sent a strong message that persons who are putting out public appeals for help in social media during the COVID-19 crisis cannot be targeted through arrests or coercive
Deradicalization Regulations: anti-democratic executive legislation targeting minorities and political opponents
President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa (Presidential Media Division - PMD) Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the President of Sri Lanka, last month made regulations titled Prevention of Terrorism (De-radicalization from holding violent extremist religious ideology) Regulations No. 01 of 2021 (hereinafter sometimes referred to as Deradicalization Regulations) purportedly under Section 27 of the Prevention of Terrorism
US Supreme Court rules undocumented immigrants must prove eligibility for protection
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-3 Thursday that undocumented immigrants bear the burden of showing that they have not been convicted of a crime involving “moral turpitude,” or they will face lawful removal. Clemente Pereida, is being deported under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1952. He has lived in
Nepal Supreme Court overturns Oli’s House dissolution
Constitutional Bench has asked the government to call a House meeting within 13 days. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's December 20 decision to dissolve the House of Representatives and asked authorities to summon a meeting of the Parliament within 13 days. The
HP High Court says surrogate Mother entitled to avail maternity leave
The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Thursday, while allowing a petition, considered the question whether a woman employee, a Language Teacher on contract basis with the government, is entitled to avail maternity leave even if she is engaging surrogate parents to conceive a child? The facts of the case is that
Chhattisgarh HC moved against opening of schools by state govt without Covid vaccination
A petition has been filed in the Chhattisgarh High Court against the opening of the school by the state government without proper vaccination of students. The petition has been filed by Palak Sangh state president Nazrul Khan through advocate T.K. Jha. The petitioner challenged the order of the Chhattisgarh Government to open
TID case against Poet Ahnaf fixed for 02nd March
Sri Lanka Police Counter-terrorism and Investigation Division (TID) has filed a case against Poet Ahnaf Jazeem in Colombo Magistrate Court No.08 (Case No.B44230/08/2020) on 11th December, alleging that the poet, being a teacher employed in the School of Excellence international school, which premises was situated in a building owned by