The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) announced the arrest of 2,517 individuals and the rescue of 3,222 trafficking victims as result of a worldwide operation against human trafficking involving police in 116 countries on Wednesday. Operation Liberterra II took place between September 29 to October 4, 2024, resulting in the rescue of 3,222 trafficking victims [...]
Former police officer Adam Coy was convicted of murder on Monday for the death of Andre Hill, an unarmed Black man, in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in Columbus, Ohio. After deliberation, Coy was found guilty of murder, felonious assault and reckless homicide. Coy will receive his sentence on November 25, 2024. Judge [...]
A South Korean advocacy group released a report on Thursday noting that more than 100 North Koreans have gone missing after trying to defect. The Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG) published the findings as a part of its mapping project for North Korea. TJWG held interviews with 62 North Koreans who fled their country and [...]
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainee Affairs, a Palestinian prisoner rights organization, and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club reported in statements on Monday that Israeli prison staff had brutally assaulted Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian political leader and member of the Central Committee of Fatah. During a visit to Megiddo prison, Marwan Barghouti’s lawyer learned of the [...]
The family of diabetic inmate Louis Jung Jr., who died at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania, filed a US federal lawsuit on Wednesday, alleging that the jail withheld insulin and proper medical care, leading to his death. The plaintiffs, Jacob and James Jung, the sons of Louis Jung Jr., are suing the City of Philadelphia, [...]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg held on Tuesday that there have been violations of the European Convention of Human Rights by Oslo Prison, the Oslo District Court and healthcare provider IHT Sanderdud, as authorities had failed to protect a prisoner with psychiatric disorders. On December 1, 2021, Age Nils Haugen brought [...]
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal is currently hearing a case, Lidkea v. Correctional Service Canada, regarding the rights of deaf people in federal prison. The complainant, Timothy Lidkea, a deaf Métis inmate, filed a complaint against Correctional Service Canada, the respondent, claiming that he had experienced seclusion due to a lack of accommodations within the [...]
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether the murder conviction of Richard Glossip, a death row inmate in Oklahoma, should be set aside due to a witness having given false testimony in court and state prosecutors having failed to disclose key information about the witness. In 1997, a hotel maintenance worker named Justin Sneed [...]
The Viasna Human Rights Centre in Belarus reported on Monday that the prison term of Yuras Zyankovich, a Belarusian American lawyer, has been extended by two years, bringing his sentence to a total of 13 and a half years, amid Belarus’ ongoing suppression of political opposition. Zyankovich was detained and arrested in Moscow on April [...]
Three former Memphis police officers involved in the 2023 death of Tyre Nichols received a mixed verdict on Thursday. Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith faced charges of excessive force, failure to intervene, and obstruction of justice. Haley was found guilty on all counts, while Smith and Bean were acquitted of civil rights violations [...]
