US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken Thursday announced that the US State Department had imposed visa restrictions on eight Cuban officials accused of silencing protests through repression, unlawful detentions, and harsh prison sentences. In July 2021, thousands of Cubans took to the streets in anti-government protests, motivated by dissatisfaction with the Cuban government’s handling of the economy, [...]
The police departments of Mumbai and New Delhi have arrested four individuals in relation to the ‘Bulli Bai’ app, which targeted Muslim women by uploading their pictures for online auction without their consent. ‘Bulli Bai’ is a GitHub-based app that pretended to auction Muslim women. The app posted doctored images of hundreds of Muslim women, [...]
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) ordered Friday a detailed investigation against Apple over allegations that the commission policies of its App Store are anti-competitive. The order came after an NGO, Together We Fight Society, filed a plea alleging that Apple abused its dominant position in the market in violation of Section 4 of the [...]
The Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), the competition regulator of the Netherlands, Friday ruled that Apple’s commission policies on in-app payments violates the country’s competition law and ordered the company to adjust the payment policies of its App Store. In 2019, the ACM initiated an investigation on whether Apple’s practices amounted to an abuse [...]
The Karnataka Legislative Assembly passed the Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021 Thursday prohibiting the “unlawful conversion from one religion to another by misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, allurement or by any fraudulent means.” The Karnataka government had tabled the bill before the state legislative assembly on Tuesday, spurring protest marches [...]
The UN Human Rights Office said Tuesday that it has received allegations of security forces raping or gang-raping 13 women and girls during the protests in Khartoum on December 19, 2021. The demonstrations on December 19 were held to commemorate the third anniversary of the protests that started in December 2018 and eventually culminated in [...]
In an unprecedented move, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) Friday suspended the approval given for Amazon’s 2019 investment in Future Coupons Private Limited (FCPL), claiming that the US e-commerce giant concealed critical information while seeking regulatory clearance. It also levied a penalty of ₹202 crores on Amazon. In November 2019, the CCI had permitted [...]
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that Russia has failed to establish an effective legal framework to address domestic violence, which has resulted in de facto discrimination against women. The ruling came in response to a complaint filed by four Russian women whose partners were violent and threatening. One of the women was [...]
The UK’s Ministry of Defence announced Wednesday that it will permit people with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to join the armed forces if they no longer have a detectable amount of the virus. The announcement came on World AIDS Day as part of the Defence Ministry’s continued efforts to recognise breakthroughs in the treatment and [...]
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Friday announced that it has fined the State Bank of India (SBI) ₹1 crore for holding “shares in borrower companies, as pledgee, of an amount exceeding 30 percent of the paid-up share capital of those companies.” Section 19 of the Banking Regulation Act of 1949 prevents a banking company from [...]
