The Israeli military’s extensive destruction of civilian property and agricultural land across southern Lebanon must be investigated as war crimes, Amnesty International said in a new research briefing released on Tuesday. The report, entitled “Nowhere to Return: Israel’s Extensive Destruction of Southern Lebanon,” documents the demolition of more than 10,000 civilian structures between October 2024 [...]
US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Monday establishing a “specialized unit” of the National Guard to address crime in Washington, DC and other US cities “whenever the circumstances necessitate,” including “other cities where public safety and order has been lost.” The order enables US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to deploy the [...]
Kilmar Ábrego García, a Salvadorian national whose wrongful deportation earlier this year prompted multiple rebukes from federal courts, was taken into custody on Monday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at its Baltimore field office. The detention occurred despite several federal court orders directing the government to ensure his presence in the US while [...]
UN human rights experts on Monday condemned what they described as escalating repression against the Khmer Krom people in Vietnam, urging authorities to cease targeting minority communities through security laws, and to release those detained for peaceful activity. The experts reported that Khmer Krom rights defenders, including Theravada Buddhist monks, face systemic harassment and criminalization [...]
The public prosecutor of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) formally requested the death penalty for former president Joseph Kabila on Friday during proceedings before the High Military Court in Kinshasa. The military auditor general, Lieutenant General Lucien René Likulia, argued before the court that the former president should face capital punishment for his role [...]
The Guinean military government on Saturday issued a decree resulting in the temporary suspension of the country’s three main opposition parties, alleging non-compliance with the requirements mandated by the Guinean Charter of Political Parties. The decree stipulates that the parties Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG), Rally of the Guinean People (RPG), and the [...]
Amnesty International has condemned Saudi Arabia’s execution of Jalal Labbad, who was accused of crimes allegedly committed when he was a minor. Bissan Fakih, Amnesty International’s Middle East campaigner, said: “Saudi Arabia’s execution of Jalal Labbad is deplorable and underscores the devastating toll of the authorities’ ruthless use of the death penalty in complete disregard [...]
A coalition of Texas voters backed by the National Redistricting Foundation filed a sweeping federal challenge late Saturday to House Bill 4, the mid-decade congressional map the Legislature approved just after midnight on August 23. The Second Supplemental Complaint, lodged before a three-judge panel, accuses state officials of intentionally dismantling performing majority-minority districts in Houston, [...]
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers notified a US trial judge on Saturday of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) intention to deport Garcia to Uganda. ICE informed the lawyers through email immediately following Garcia’s court-ordered release on Friday, abruptly changing its prior aim to deport Garcia to Costa Rica. The day before Garcia’s release, President Donald [...]
The National Assembly of the autonomous Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) on Friday voted to call for a referendum on a federal court’s decision to ban the entity’s former president from holding office. In a late-night session, the assembly rejected the decision of BiH’s Central Election Commission to terminate Milorad Dodik’s mandate, declaring [...]
