The Supreme Court of India Thursday dismissed a writ petition seeking an independent investigation into alleged extra-judicial killings of tribal people in villages in Chhattisgarh state. The writ petition, filed in 2009, alleged that state security forces, including the Chhattisgarh Police and paramilitary forces, were responsible for the deaths of villagers during anti-Naxalite operations that [...]
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thursday released a new immigration directive governing the detention of minors, incapacitated adults and their guardians. The new Biden administration directive will replace the Trump-era directive on minors and their families from 2017. The prior directive, which has been in force since April 2017, was created in response to the [...]
Texas Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging President Joseph Biden’s executive order which preempts states’ abortion laws with federal law when emergency care is required to save a mother’s life. Biden signed the executive order Monday in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion provided [...]
Meta, the parent company of sites such as Facebook and Instagram, Thursday released its first human rights report. The report comes amid criticism of Meta’s handling of a variety of issues on their sites. The report identified six fundamental rights that present “salient risks” including the right to freedom of expression and opinion; right to [...]
Former CIA Agent Joshua Schulte was convicted on espionage charges in federal court Wednesday for providing national defense information to the website Wikileaks. Schulte was charged in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York back in 2018 with a 13 count superseding indictment which included espionage charges, child pornography charges, and [...]
A Tokyo District Court on Wednesday found four former executives of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) responsible for operating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant liable for its 2011 meltdown. The court ordered the four defendants to pay damages of around 13 trillion Yen (US$ 94 billion) to TEPCO shareholders for negligence and failure [...]
Two men from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Tuesday pled guilty in federal court to charges of trafficking protected animal products from the DRC into the US. Herdade Lokua and Jospin Mujangi admitted before the US District Court for the Western District of Washington they had worked with a middleman since November 2019 to [...]
Twitter sued billionaire and CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk Tuesday in an effort to force him to complete his US$44 billion acquisition of the social media company. In April Twitter’s board of directors accepted Musk’s offer to purchase the social media platform for $44 billion, at $54.20 a share. Lawyers for Twitter filed a lawsuit in [...]
The US House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack Tuesday presented evidence that extremist groups showed up in Washington DC with violent intentions in response a to tweet from Former US President Donald Trump. The hearing also unveiled radical proposals from Trump allies, discussed hours before the tweet was posted, and showed that the riot [...]
North Korea’s government Wednesday recognized two breakaway states claiming internationally-recognized Ukrainian territory as independent. North Korea is the third country to recognize the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, after Russia and Syria. Ukraine, and much of the international community, recognizes them as part of Ukraine. On February 22, two days before Russia [...]
