The Court of King’s Bench of New Brunswick granted the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) a public interest standing to challenge the policy change carried out by the Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development. This case concerns Policy 713, which involves the requirement of parental consent to the formal use of a preferred first [...]

The Hong Kong High Court ruled against Jimmy Lai in his challenge against the court’s jurisdiction to hear the charge of conspiracy to sedition on Friday. The court ruled that the prosecution pressed the charge within the time limit because the alleged conspiracy to sedition was a continuing act, and the time limit only commenced [...]

The Hong Kong Court of Appeal on Friday granted seven activists a certificate to appeal against their conviction of taking part in an unauthorized assembly. At the same time, the court dismissed the government’s appeal to the Appellate Court’s overturn of convictions of organizing an unauthorised assembly. Applying to appeal their convictions, the activists contended [...]

The UK, the US and Canada announced coordinated sanctions on Friday against individuals and entities linked to human rights abuse, approaching the 75th anniversary of the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The UK has imposed 46 sanctions of asset freezes and travel bans. The first category of these focuses mainly on forced labour [...]

The Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) issued a warrant on Tuesday for Martin Oei, an overseas political commentator, for allegedly inciting another person not to vote in the District Council election. The ICAC alleged that Oei incited another person not to vote through his public social media posts during the election period, in [...]

Amnesty International released an 85-page report on Monday, outlining the deterioration of human rights in El Salvador over the 21 months that the country has been in a state of emergency to combat gang violence. The human rights organization says that El Salvador’s emergency measures have violated human rights by perpetrating massive arbitrary detentions, torture [...]

West African NGO alliance the People’s Coalition for the Sahel demanded on Sunday that Burkina Faso immediately release human rights advocate Daouda Diallo, Secretary General of the Collective Against Impunity and Stigmatisation of Communities (CISC), on Sunday. The CISC said Friday that shortly after Diallo left the passport office in Ouagadougou that afternoon, he was [...]

Hong Kong opposition activist, Agnes Chow Ting revealed on her social media Sunday that she has no plan to return to Hong Kong, despite being required to return by the Hong Kong Police National Security Department (NSD) in December. The NSD responded to Chow, condemning her plan to skip bail as against the rule of [...]

The Hong Kong High Court dismissed a judicial review on Friday that sought to challenge the constitutionality of the new nomination requirement applicable to the forthcoming District Council Ordinary Election. In upholding the requirement’s constitutionality, Judge Russell Coleman ruled that even though the nomination requirement encroached in the constitutionally protected right to stand for election, [...]

The German Federal Ministry of the Interior conducted raids on 16 properties that belonged to members and supporters of Hamas and Samidoun on Thursday. The extensive search resulted in the seizure of mobile phones, laptops, data carriers and documents. The federal authorities are evaluating the seized materials with the help of Islamic scholars. With the [...]