The European Union (EU) on Wednesday announced that it lifted economic sanctions on Syria after the toppling of the repressive Assad regime in an effort to revive the country’s economy. The EU’s decision to lift all of the restrictive measures includes the removal of 24 entities from the list of those subject to the freezing [...]

South Korean authorities enacted a travel ban on former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and former Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok, according to local reports on Tuesday. The ban was reportedly imposed on Han and Choi around the middle of this month. Former Prime Minister Han and ex-Finance Minister Choi are barred from leaving the country as [...]

British-Egyptian writer and human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah is being unlawfully detained by the Egyptian government, according to an investigation by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on Tuesday. Following the 18-month investigation, the panel concluded that his arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment violated international human rights law and constituted a clear attempt [...]

The US Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari from nonprofit Apache Stronghold on Tuesday, which sought an injunction on a federal government land transfer of an Apache holy site to a copper mining company. Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, more commonly known as Oak Flat, is a 6.7 square-mile site east of Superior, Arizona. The petition for [...]

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to stay an injunction, which could allow for DHS to continue the deportations of migrants to third countries without due process. The defendants in the pending case are officials in President Donald Trump’s administration, including Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, while [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday urged the UN Security Council (UNSC) to renew its arms embargo against South Sudan. The embargo is a part of a series of sanctions that have been in place since 2015, stemming from human rights abuses carried out during the civil war. Both sides of the conflict have been implicated in [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Wednesday submitted several participation forms requesting the International Criminal Court (ICC) to allow Palestinian journalists who are victims of Israeli war crimes to participate in the court’s proceedings. RSF submitted several victim forms to Philipp Ambach, chief of the Victims Participation and Reparations Section in the Registry of the ICC. [...]

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that President Trump’s attempt to punish an elite law firm associated with his political opposition was unconstitutional and directed the government not to enforce Executive Order 14250 signed in March. US District Judge for the District of Columbia Richard Leon granted summary judgement for Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and [...]

President Trump said during an Oval Office meeting April 14 that it would be up to El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele to decide whether mistakenly deported man Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia would be allowed back to the United States. President Bukele responded by stating that he did not “have the power to return him” and [...]