The Vietnamese government significantly escalated its suppression of dissent, increasingly punishing individuals, including ordinary citizens, for peacefully expressing concerns about state policies and public officials, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released today. Titled “We’ll All Be Arrested Soon’: Abusive Prosecutions under Vietnam’s ‘Infringing of State Interests’ Law,” the report highlights the growing [...]

In this interview, an anonymous Palestinian legal and political science scholar speaks with Associate Editorial Director Alanah Vargas about his life in Gaza under Israeli occupation before and after October 7, 2023, his perspective on the Western world’s response to Palestinian suffering, and what he wishes the world knew about Gaza. What was your life [...]

Lawyers representing Venezuelan immigrants threatened with deportation filed an emergency request to the Supreme Court on Monday to block the removals. The Trump administration was prepared to deport dozens of Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador last Friday before the Supreme Court blocked the action. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called for the [...]

A Tunisian court on Saturday issued sentences in the so-called “Conspiracy Case” against 40 opposition activists under the country’s counter terrorism laws and criminal code. The individuals, who were charged with “conspiracy against the internal and external security of the state” through formation of and participation in a terrorist group, received sentences ranging from 13 [...]

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday barred the Trump administration from implementing a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy allowing the rapid deportation of hundreds of migrants to countries other than their own without due process. US District Court Judge Brian Murphy granted the plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction on the DHS policy. [...]

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a twenty-year-old American citizen born in the US, has been released as of Thursday evening, after spending 24 hours in jail on charges of entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien.” Lopez-Gomez has alleged that his statemets to the arresting officer that he is indeed a US citizen were ignored, despite Lopez-Gomez backing [...]

A US federal judge on Friday ordered Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk to be returned to Vermont, where she will remain in custody, pending a bail hearing. Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was detained by Department of Homeland (DHS) agents near the university’s Massachusetts campus last month after her F-1 student visa was revoked. [...]

The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) concluded Friday that there has been professional failure following the killing of several Palestinian medics but no planned execution or attempt to conceal the event. The IDF finding noted that the incident occurred in a “hostile and dangerous combat zone” and “under widespread threat to the operating troops” from the [...]

A mass trial on Friday started in Türkiye for 189 people following the protests against the detention and arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu last month. The defendants, mainly students, journalists and lawyers, are facing charges involving participation in illegal rallies, failing to disperse despite police warnings, carrying weapons, and covering their faces for identity [...]