A Virginia judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday that bars the Virginia State Police from enforcing a newly passed assault weapons ban, halting the law six days before it was set to take effect. Lancaster County Circuit Court Judge John Martin ruled in favor of the plaintiffs’ motion for an injunction on the law in [...]

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association on Thursday urged the federal government to affirm the right to seek medical assistance in dying (MAiD) of patients whose sole underlying medical condition is mental illness. The statement comes after Canada’s Parliament received a report from its special joint committee, suggesting an indefinite exclusion of patients with mental illness. [...]

Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton pleaded guilty on Friday to a felony count of unlawfully retaining sensitive national security information. This development resolved a case that had been closely watched as a test of Justice Department prosecutions of President Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies. Bolton previously described the charge as a weaponization of [...]

Cambodia’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld the treason convictions and 14-year prison sentences of journalists Phorn Sopheap and Pheap Pheara, according to local media. The court rejected the journalists’ final appeal in a case that rights organizations and press freedom groups have claimed criminalizes reporting. The defense had asked the court to either dismiss the [...]

The US Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the US President Donald Trump’s administration to end temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Haiti and Syria. The 6-3 decision held that federal courts may not “second-guess” the government’s decision to end the program. The decision reverses orders from federal judges in New York [...]

A federal judge in New York blocked the Department of Justice (DOJ) from obtaining the sensitive medical records of transgender minors from New York City hospitals on Wednesday, granting an emergency temporary restraining order to families and patients who argued the administration’s subpoenas violated their constitutional privacy rights. The ruling came in Coe v. Blanche, [...]

International Criminal Court (ICC) Judges Kimberly Prost, Solomy Bossa and Reine Alapini-Gansou on Wednesday sued US President Donald Trump for overstepping the boundaries of his authority in issuing sanctions to ICC officials involved in investigating crimes in Afghanistan and Palestine. The suit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenges [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday called for independent investigations into dozens of deaths in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. He urged authorities to take immediate measures to prevent further fatalities as the number of deaths in detention continues to rise. Türk noted that at least 52 people have [...]

Amnesty International called on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) authorities on Thursday to cease their support for the Collective of Movements for Change-People’s Defense Forces (CMC-FDP), an armed group said to be backed by the Congolese army, due to its involvement in human rights abuses that may amount to war crimes. Amnesty International’s [...]