Ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, was sentenced to ten years imprisonment on Tuesday. Vice Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, was sentenced to the same punishment alongside Khan. Khan, who is currently serving a three-year sentence for corruption, was trialed under accusations of “use of official secret information and illegal [...]
An appellate court in Bangladesh granted bail to Nobel laureate Muhammed Yunus on Sunday, as reported by a local media. Yunus was previously sentenced to six month imprisonment for labour law violations in his company Garameen Telecom. Following this bail order, an appeal will now be heard against his case. Yunus was awarded the Nobel [...]
UN expert Michel Forst published a letter Tuesday detailing his concerns on the treatment of environmental protestors in the UK. Forst condemned the “severe crackdowns” on environmental protestors, including the prison sentences issued, the bail conditions and the restrictions on peaceful protests. Forst is the first UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders under the Aarhus [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called for Meta to improve their protection of LGBTQ+ people on Facebook and Instagram on Tuesday. This new campaign follows an HRW report from 2023, which found that security forces in the Middle East and North Africa use social media platforms to gather evidence to prosecute them. A new campaign, titled [...]
A UK High Court judge ruled Friday that three individuals wounded during the Troubles, the 1968-1998 conflict between Northern Ireland Protestant unionists and Catholic Republicans, can proceed in personal injury claims against former Sinn Fein Leader Gerry Adams. The three claimants were all injured during bombings attributed to the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). John [...]
Social media platforms in Pakistan experienced a “national-scale disruption” on Saturday, according to reports by internet monitor Netblocks, during a virtual rally by the political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), led by embattled former prime minister Imran Khan. Netblocks issued a statement declaring that their official metric demonstrated disruptions to X (formerly known as Twitter), Facebook, [...]
Two filmmakers of a film banned in Malaysia were charged on Wednesday with “hurting religious feelings” due to the contents of their film. Nine human rights organizations have condemned the criminal charges as breaches of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. The film, Mentega Terbang, debuted at a film festival in 2021. It [...]
The UK government Wednesday published letters regarding how civil servants should follow the Safety of Rwanda Bill. The letters, issued between the Cabinet Office and the Home Office, were published just hours before the House of Commons passed the bill, which seeks to bypass the courts and implement the government’s plan to send some asylum [...]
A UK government report released Wednesday detailing the discriminatory policy used to decide which asylum seekers can be housed on the Bibby Stockholm barge was subsequently deleted from the government website. Although the policy discriminated against asylum seekers on the grounds of age and sex, the government stated this discrimination was justified under provisions in [...]
The UK Parliament’s Justice and Home Affairs Committee published an inquiry Thursday that suggested alternative methods must be put in place to reduce reoffending and the strain on Probation Service in England and Wales. As prisons are currently at 99 percent capacity, the report examined how an increased focus on community orders could be effective [...]
