Vietnamese authorities should immediately release prominent human rights activist Trịnh Bá Phương and drop all charges against him, Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged on Thursday. Phương was arrested in June 2020 and convicted in December 2021 under Article 117 of Vietnam’s Penal Code, receiving a 10-year sentence followed by five years of probation. Article 117 [...]

A federal judge in New York stated Wednesday that no less than two senior US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials “appear to be in direct violation” of a local court rule when they issued out-of-court statements suggesting Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was guilty before trial. Judge Margaret [...]

On Friday, US President Donald Trump’s administration filed an emergency application with the nation’s Supreme Court seeking to stay a federal district court ruling that held Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem acted unlawfully in revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelan nationals. In April 2025, Noem terminated the 2023 TPS designations for Venezuela, asserting [...]

Courtroom Developments in the Luigi Mangione Hearing The New York State case against Luigi Mangione, accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, saw a major development on Tuesday. Shortly after proceedings began, the court granted Mangione’s motion to dismiss two terrorism-related charges: first-degree murder as an act of terrorism and second-degree [...]

A federal lawsuit filed on Friday by four West African migrants, along with Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAAJ), accused US immigration authorities of subjecting them to inhumane treatment during their deportation to Ghana in violation of US immigration law and judicial precedent. According to the complaint, on September 5, five migrants—three from Nigeria and two [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld an $83.3 million defamation verdict in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll on Monday, backing up a jury finding that President Donald Trump defamed her when he dismissed her 2019 sexual assault allegations as false. The federal appeals panel rejected Trump’s bid to overturn the [...]

A UN rights report released Friday declared that all parties to the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law, possibly rising to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The report, prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner [...]

Amnesty International released a new investigative report on Tuesday detailing extrajudicial executions of Druze civilians by the Syrian government and affiliated forces in the Suwayda governorate on July 15-16. The human rights organization confirmed that 46 individuals—44 men and two women—were deliberately shot dead, while two older victims were subjected to mock executions. These killings [...]

A senior UN official voiced concern Thursday about the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, stating that approximately 30 million—nearly two-thirds of the nation’s population—are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance as the civil war persists. During a press briefing in New York, the director of operations and advocacy for the UN Office for the Coordination of [...]

A habeas corpus petition seeking the immediate release of journalist Mario Guevara from ICE detention was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Georgia on Wednesday. The petition stated that the government detained “award-winning journalist” Guevara “in order to retaliate against him for his constitutionally-protected speech and reporting, and to gag [...]