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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) released 1685 mostly ill inmates from the country’s largest prison on Sunday amid ongoing efforts to reduce overcrowding at the facility. The release from Makala Central Prison was announced by Minister of Justice Constant Mutamba to local media, which reported that the sick inmates were released due to [...]

Tanzania police on Monday arrested opposition members, including prominent leader Tundu Lissu, and journalists in Dar es Salaam before planned peaceful protests calling on the government to address the abduction of opposition figures in recent months. The opposition had called for citizens to join in the rally, which the Tanzanian government had banned, citing security [...]

The French government deployed the special anti-riot police, the Republican Security Companies (CRS), to Martinique on Sunday in response to ongoing protests over the rising cost of living on the French-ruled Caribbean island. The deployment marks the first time CRS units have been sent to Martinique since they were banned from the territory in December [...]

The UN Secretary-General spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Saturday that the UN chief is “gravely alarmed” at the full-scale assault on the city of El Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan, stating that the warring parties’ disregard for ceasefire calls is unconscionable. The conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the [...]

Taiwan’s Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that the death penalty remains constitutional for serious offenses, including murder. However, the court ordered the government to amend criminal procedures within two years to better protect the right to life. The case challenged the constitutionality of the death penalty for intentional homicide and killings linked to other crimes [...]

Does the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) preempt New York’s use of federal campaign finance violations to enhance Donald Trump’s criminal penalties for falsifying his New York business records? Professor Elizabeth Price Foley (Florida International University) and conservative media commentator David Rivkin argued in the Wall Street Journal last week that it does, since FECA [...]

Pressure builds on the Bangladesh interim government as Acting Chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) called for an “election roadmap” at a rally on Tuesday, marking the International Day of Democracy. Addressing thousands of protestors outside of BNP’s headquarters in the capital of Dhaka, Rahman said: “The reform programmes need to be carried forward [...]

The Council of the European Union condemned the systemic oppression of women in Iran in a Monday statement. Monday marks the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Jina Amini, who died in custody following her arrest for allegedly not properly covering her hair. The statement denounced Iran’s crackdown on the “Women, Life, Freedom” movement, highlighting [...]

Indian opposition figure and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Sunday that he will resign from his post, just days after being released from prison on bail. Kejriwal, who was detained for nearly six months in connection with a corruption scandal involving the Delhi government’s 2021-22 excise policy, declared that he will not return to [...]

The Special Prosecution of Kosovo announced Wednesday that it has indicted 45 individuals for terrorism and other serious crimes related to an attack in the northern village of Banjska in September 2023. The charges follow an extensive investigation into an armed incursion by ethnic Serbs that resulted in the deaths of four people, including a [...]