Eight human rights organizations called on Kyrgyzstan authorities on Friday to take necessary measures for the safety of Makhabat Tazhibek Kyzy, an imprisoned human rights defender who has received death threats from a fellow prisoner. Tazhibek Kyzy is the director of the YouTube-based media outlet Tazhibek Kyzy, founded by her husband in 2020. The media [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday unanimously rejected the arguments of a group of Holocaust survivors demanding that Hungary pay reparations for confiscating their property during World War II. The court’s opinion in Republic of Hungary v. Simon was delivered by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who stated that foreign states are granted “presumptive immunity from suit [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists urged Ghanaian authorities Thursday to investigate the attack on five journalists who covered the elections in the southern Ashanti Region. The attack occurred at the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council while the journalists were covering electoral officers counting votes. It was reportedly triggered by the defeat of National Democratic Congress (NDC) [...]

The Taliban announced on Thursday that Afghanistan would no longer recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), stating that the country’s 2003 accession to the Rome Statute is declared to be legally void after ICC prosecutor Karim Khan sought arrest warrants for Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and the Chief Justice of Afghanistan [...]

Iran executed at least 975 people in 2024, marking a 17 percent increase from 2023, according to the seventeenth Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran released on Thursday. Jointly published by Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) and Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), the report said the figure was the highest recorded rate in [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on Israel Thursday to stop “suffocating the press in Gaza.” RSF detailed the numerous obstacles to free journalism that remain in Gaza one month after the ceasefire. Despite international support for the ceasefire, journalists in Gaza continue to die for their cause as they report on the dire situation in [...]

Amnesty International on Friday urged authorities in Côte d’Ivoire to compensate the 133 farmers who have lost their livelihoods after being forcefully evicted from the Gesco Rivière site in Abidjan last year, emphasizing that authorities must comply with human rights standards. The rights group stated that when authorities demolished multiple neighborhoods in Abidjan last year, [...]

A spokesperson for UN Secretary General António Guterres on Thursday denounced the parading of hostage bodies in Gaza by Hamas as against international law. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which facilitated the release, also urged dignity and privacy in the next release. UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said that under international law, any [...]

UN special rapporteurs on Friday called on all parties to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to treat the bodies of the deceased with respect and dignity and ensure proper documentation before burial. The experts stated: “We are deeply concerned about the reported burial of over 2000 bodies without proper identification [...]

Acting Solicitor General of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Sarah Harris sent a letter to President Pro Tempore of the Senate Charles Grassley on Thursday sharing the DOJ’s determination that removal restrictions for administrative law judges (ALJs) are unconstitutional and that the DOJ no longer intends to defend them in court. The DOJ justified [...]