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Japan’s same-sex marriage ban is constitutional, says Tokyo court

November 28, 2025 World Justice News 0
A Japanese court has ruled the country’s ban on same-sex marriage as constitutional – bucking a trend set by courts around the country that had raised hopes for marriage equality in Japan. The ruling was […]
Robert Fico
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Slovakia passes law to recognise only two sexes and restrict adoption

September 29, 2025 World Justice News 0
Slovakia has changed its constitution, enshrining into law recognition of only two sexes – male and female. The legal change, which passed in a knife-edge vote in the central European nation’s parliament, also restricts adoption […]
Ratu Thalisa
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TikToker jailed in Indonesia for telling Jesus to cut his hair

March 11, 2025 World Justice News 0
An Indonesian TikToker has been sentenced to almost three years in prison after reportedly ‘talking’ to a picture of Jesus on her phone and telling him to get a haircut. Ratu Thalisa, a Muslim transgender […]
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Fined for yellow and blue shoes: How Russian laws smother dissent

July 21, 2024 World Justice News 0
Dissent is not tolerated in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. For years Kremlin critics have faced a host of laws which could be used against them, and since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine that toolbox of measures […]
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EU approves major overhaul of migration rules

April 11, 2024 World Justice News 0
After years of negotiations, the European Parliament has approved a major reform tightening the EU’s migration and asylum rules. The EU Asylum and Migration Pact has been in the works since 2015. It will come […]
Iwao Hakamada
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Japan retrial for world’s longest-serving death row inmate

March 13, 2023 World Justice News 0
A Japanese man who was on death row for nearly half a century has been granted a retrial. Iwao Hakamada, now 87, is the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, according to Amnesty International. He was sentenced […]
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Aung San Suu Kyi jailed for a further seven years

December 30, 2022 World Justice News 0
A Myanmar military court has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to a further seven years in prison, taking her overall jail time to 33 years. The country’s former democratically-elected leader has been under house arrest […]
Morad Tahbaz
Human Rights

British national ‘shattered’ to be back in Iran jail

March 20, 2022 World Justice News 0
A British-US national temporarily released from prison in Iran, is “shattered” to find himself back in jail after 48 hours, his family say. Morad Tahbaz, who also holds Iranian citizenship, was initially allowed out on the […]
Maha al-Mutairi
Human Rights

Kuwait overturns law criminalising ‘imitation of opposite sex’

February 17, 2022 World Justice News 0
Kuwait’s constitutional court has overturned a law that criminalised “imitation of the opposite sex” and was used to prosecute transgender people. The Gulf state’s parliament amended Article 198 of the penal code in 2007 to […]
Mustafa al-Darwish
Human Rights

Mustafa al-Darwish: Saudi man executed for crimes committed as a minor

June 15, 2021 World Justice News 0
Saudi Arabia has executed a man for offences that rights groups say he committed while aged 17, despite the kingdom’s assurance that it had abolished the death penalty for minors. Mustafa Hashem al-Darwish was arrested […]

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US plans to start checking all tourists’ social media

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All tourists – including those from Britain – will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country’s border force. At the […]
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Children locked out of social media apps after Australia’s world-first ban

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Australia’s world-first social media ban for children has taken effect, with throngs of teenagers waking up to find their accounts have gone dark. Others tell BBC they have already snuck past barriers and will continue […]
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced a Sudanese militia leader to 20 years in prison for atrocities committed during a civil war more than two decades ago. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman had been convicted […]
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