Amnesty International urged Mozambican authorities on Monday to disclose the results of any investigation conducted in the case of Inocêncio Manhique, a protester who the group deemed to have suffered from unlawful use of force during a peaceful protest. Manhique was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet by the police during a peaceful [...]
US President Donald J. Trump claimed in a Truth social media post Monday that former President Joseph Biden’s pardons are void because they were made via autopen. Trump stated: Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, [...]
Amnesty International submitted on Monday its input to the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights regarding the effects of toxic exposure and the accessibility to justice. The report emphasized on the right to access to justice and effective remedies in the context of environmental degradation. Amnesty International’s report considers four cases of human [...]
JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief editor of LeftWord Books, and author of forty books including “Washington Bullets,” “Red Star Over the Third World,” and “The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World.” In this interview, Prashad delves [...]
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday arrested another Palestinian who participated in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and announced the self-deportation to India of another student whose visa had been revoked in 2022. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian from the West Bank, was arrested by ICE [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday called for an immediate investigation into the massacre of dozens of civilians in Burkina Faso’s city of Solenzo on March 10 and 11. In its statement, HRW highlighted video footage circulating on social media implicating pro-government militias in the killings, raising serious concerns about accountability and civilian protection in [...]
The Trump administration moved on Friday to dismiss lawsuits against Iowa and Oklahoma regarding state laws criminalizing undocumented immigration. The Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) filed the lawsuits in 2024 over Iowa’s Senate File (SF) 2340 and Oklahoma’s House Bill (HB) 4156, charging that they violate the US Constitution’s Supremacy Clause and Foreign Commerce [...]
Thousands rallied in Seoul on Saturday both in support of and against impeached South Korean President Yoon Seok Yeol. The rallies were held in anticipation of an impeachment verdict by the Constitutional Court of Korea, expected to be issued next week, according to local media. Pro-Yoon protestors gathered in central Seoul, waving both South Korean [...]
Thousands protested in Serbia’s capital Belgrade on Saturday in what is being called one of the country’s largest demonstrations in decades. Protesters demanded the publication of all documentation concerning the Novi Sad railway station roof collapse last November, which killed 15 people. The protest is the culmination of students, teachers, farmers and other ordinary citizens [...]
The White House published a proclamation signed by President Trump on Saturday, outlining a broad crackdown on members of the Tren de Aragua (TdA) criminal network. The directive ordered the immediate apprehension and removal of all eligible Venezuelan nationals affiliated with the group, stating that TdA constitutes a “designated Foreign Terrorist Organization” engaged in an [...]
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