Jurist

United Nations human rights experts have called on Pakistan to release detained human rights lawyers, according to a report by Jurist. The appeal concerns legal professionals held in connection with their advocacy work, and the experts are urging Pakistani authorities to account for their situation. The call highlights ongoing concerns about the treatment of lawyers and rights defenders in Pakistan.

United Nations human rights experts have called on Pakistan to release human rights lawyers who were re-arrested on terrorism charges. The experts criticized the detentions as a misuse of counterterrorism laws to target legal advocates, and urged Pakistani authorities to drop the charges and guarantee the lawyers' safety and ability to work without intimidation.

At the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council, the International Commission of Jurists and Human Rights Watch jointly called for stronger protection of Black African migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Tunisia and Libya. The organisations urged states to address abuses faced by people trying to cross the Mediterranean, including detention, violence and exploitation along the main North African migration routes.

Ebussuud Efendi, the prominent Ottoman jurist who died on this day in 1574, is being remembered. He served as a judge before Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent promoted him to supreme judge of the empire, a role in which he shaped Ottoman religious and legal life. The anniversary is noted alongside historical travel content about Turkey, including Konya.