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The government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) condemned the US House of Representatives on Wednesday for using its Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) Certification Act to “slander laws on safeguarding national security” and “smear the human rights situation” in Hong Kong. The bill, which passed the House 413-3, seeks to [...]

India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) formally charged four individuals on Tuesday in connection with a bombing that occurred at the Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru, India, in March 2023. The bast caused nine casualties, none fatal. The accused are identified as Mussavir Hussain Shazib, Abdul Matheen Ahmed Taaha, Maaz Muneer Ahmed, and Muzammil Shareef. According to [...]

The Court of The Hague issued its ruling on Monday in the case of two Pakistani individuals who had called on the public to assassinate Dutch politician Geert Wilders. The court delivered its ruling just a week after the Public Prosecutor’s Office announced plans to prosecute the two Pakistani nationals, a 56-year-old religious leader and [...]

Two Canadian men, Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert, were each sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for mischief over $5000 and possession of a weapon for the purpose of committing an offence following their arrest during the Freedom Convoy blockade at the Coutts, Alberta, border crossing in 2022. The two were previously not found guilty [...]

The International Labour Organisation (ILO)  released a new working paper on Friday, finding that people with disabilities are less likely to participate in the labor market. The paper also highlights that people with disabilities tend to earn less than their non-disabled counterparts. The paper reveals that individuals with disabilities face significant barriers to workforce participation. [...]

President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko signed a decree on Wednesday pardoning 30 individuals previously convicted of “protest-related crimes.” Seven women and 23 men were pardoned. According to Prosecutor General Andrei Shved, as quoted by state news outlet Belta, “hese individuals did not commit violent crimes against representatives of the authorities. They were convicted mainly for insult [...]

Dutch prosecutors announced their intent on Monday to seek prison sentences of up to 14 years for two Pakistani nationals accused of inciting threats on the life of prominent far-right politician Geert Wilders. The case is currently being tried in absentia, in the absence of the accused or a lawyer representing them. The Public Prosecutor’s [...]

The Hong Kong District Court on Thursday found Best Pencil (Hong Kong Limited), the parent company of Stand News, along with former chief editor Chung Pui-kuen and former acting chief editor Patrick Lam, guilty of “conspiracy to publish and/or reproduce seditious publications” under the now-repealed section 10(1)(c) of the Crimes Ordinance. The sentencing hearing is [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the leaders of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Wednesday to immediately investigate and cease their personnel from ill-treating and torturing, summarily executing and mutilating the dead bodies of individuals in their custody. According to HRW, one image and eight videos uploaded onto social media [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called Tuesday for the Taliban’s recently enacted “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” law in Afghanistan to be repealed. A spokesperson for Türk, Ravina Shamdasani, condemned the new law as “utterly intolerable,” demanding, “e call on the de facto authorities to immediately repeal this legislation, which [...]