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Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig said in an interview on Monday that he suffered psychological torture during his detention by Chinese authorities. Kovrig and Canadian businessman, Michael Spavor, were arrested in December 2018, shortly after the arrest and detention of Huawei CFO, Meng Wanzhou, at a Vancouver airport by Canadian officials became public. In 2020, The [...]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Saturday overturned the conviction of ex-PM Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi for violating the country’s marriage laws in 2018, according to Khan’s lawyer, Naeem Panthuja, who celebrated on social media. Khan and his wife were sentenced to seven years for violating the law by marrying before the [...]

Former veterans minister and ex-officer Johnny Mercer is facing potential imprisonment for refusing to disclose names of soldiers who allegedly told him about unlawful killings and cover-ups by UK special forces during the Afghanistan War, The Afghanistan Inquiry has said.  In a ruling released on Thursday, Judge Haddon-Cave, Chair of the Inquiry notes in his [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday called on Iraqi Kurdish authorities to “immediately and unconditionally” release Syrian journalist, Sleman Ahmed. Ahmed has been detained for eight months and is facing a charge of espionage under acts of endangering the national security of the Kurdistan Region. He has already faced restrictions accessing legal representation [...]

The lawyer representing former detainees of an Australian youth detention centre announced in a media release on Friday that the Tasmanian state government plans to give AU$75 million to members of a class action abuse lawsuit against the state. The class action arose as a result of alleged abuse that had been taking place at [...]

The Sverdlovsky Regional Court on Monday declared that the trial of American journalist Evan Gershkovich will be held behind closed doors. As released by the court and reported by TASS, the first session will take place on June 26. Gershkovich was previously being kept in a pre-trial detention center, during which time his appeal to [...]

In a historic turn of events, an international diplomacy maneuver resulted in a rare prisoner swap that saw both Sweden and Iran gain the freedom of notable detainees. The exchange raised brows on the global stage due to the release of Iranian prison official Hamid Nouri, who was found guilty in a Swedish Court of [...]

A US federal judge ordered a retrial on Friday in a case involving allegations that Virginia-based military contractor CACI Premier Technology, Inc. (CACI) contributed to the abuse and torture of detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison two decades ago. Judge Leonie Brinkema granted the plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial and denied CACI’s motion for [...]

The Russian Prosecutor General’s office announced Thursday that it approved an espionage indictment against Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained in Russia since March 2023, and sent his case to the Sverdlovsk Regional Court in the city of Yekaterinburg. Gershkovich’s detention has been condemned by his employer and press freedom groups, [...]

A court in St. Petersburg convicted and sentenced dual US-Russian Yuri Malev citizen to three and a half years in prison Wednesday on charges of “rehabilitating Nazism” for social media posts which were allegedly disrespectful towards the military. Malev was detained on December 9 of last year for his posts made in June 2022 on [...]