Mexico’s Attorney General on Tuesday urged lawmakers to strip the Governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, of his immunity over alleged links to organized crime and money laundering. The leader of the majority in Congress Ignacio Mier Velazco attached a copy of the letter in a recent Twitter post saying that Congress has received [...]
A federal grand jury on Friday indicted six new members of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing extremist group, for conspiring to prevent Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. The six members were arrested earlier this week and were included as co-defendants in a superseding indictment alleging that the individuals joined in a [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that Germany’s investigation into a 2009 airstrike on Kunduz, Afghanistan, was sufficiently conducted and did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights. The German Federal Prosecutor General opened the investigation in 2010 when Afghan citizen Abdul Hanan filed a complaint after losing his two young [...]
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a briefing Friday that the Biden administration has launched a review of the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to determine the prison’s fate over the next four years. Psaki told reporters that the administration is considering an executive action to close Guantanamo by the end [...]
UN human rights experts Monday urged 57 countries to repatriate more than 10,000 displaced women and children associated with Daesh fighters from Syrian camps. The experts expressed grave concern over deteriorating conditions at Al Hol and and Roj camps located in northeast Syria, citing a recent uptick in violence and security threats within the camps. The [...]
A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced political activist Alexei Navalny to three and a half years in prison for violating his probation conditions. In its decision, the court reasoned that Navalny would need to serve two years and eight months of the sentence because he had already served one year of his sentence under house [...]
Iranian authorities on Saturday hanged 31-year-old political activist Javid Dehghan after the United Nations (UN) urged Iran to halt the execution. Dehghan was accused of leading extremist group Jaish al-Adl and was convicted of shooting two Revolutionary Guards officials five years ago in the Sistan-Baluchistan province. The UN rights office said in a prior statement [...]
A judge at the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), blocking President Joe Biden’s 100-day deportation pause. The order comes days after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an emergency application for a TRO against DHS last Friday. [...]
The National Congress of Honduras Thursday voted in favor of constitutional reforms that make it difficult to reverse provisions preventing the legalization of abortion and same-sex marriage. Of the 128 members of Congress, 88 voted in favor of the reforms, 28 opposed and seven abstained. They will have to be ratified in a second session. If ratified, [...]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday warned of possible violent uprisings and government crackdowns amid political unrest in Haiti. The office noted that conditions in Haiti are worsening and that criminal activity and widespread insecurity are on the rise. OHCHR spokesperson Marta Hurtado told reporters that political tensions [...]
