The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday sanctioned three organizations and two individuals, accusing UK-based Palestine Action, the Italy-based Autistici Inventati, and the Masar Badil network of ties to “violent far-left extremism.” The designations were made under Executive Order 13224, the post-9/11 authority allowing the US to block the property of [...]

A divided panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday that New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver can face prosecution on two of three charges over a scrum with federal agents at Delaney Hall, rejecting her argument that the Speech or Debate Clause and separation-of-powers principles immunize her conduct during a legislative oversight [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday stayed a district court injunction that had blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order overhauling mail-in voting, ruling in a per curiam opinion that the states that brought the challenge had not shown an injury concrete and imminent enough to make their claims justiciable before the November midterm election. In Trump v. [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction Tuesday barring the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from conducting immigration enforcement actions at or near Quaker, Sikh and Baptist houses of worship that sued the Trump administration over the policy permitting them. The Fourth Circuit’s opinion recounts sworn declarations describing how congregations have changed [...]

A Russian court sentenced politician Lev Shlosberg to 11 years and one month in a penal colony on charges of “discrediting” the Russian military and spreading “false information,” Amnesty International said on Monday. Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia director, called the charges “blatant reprisals for exercising his right to freedom of [...]

Amnesty International on Monday urged candidates in Zambia’s upcoming general elections to show a clear and genuine commitment to reversing the nation’s troubling authoritarian slide, warning that persistent state crackdowns on free speech and peaceful assembly now pose a serious threat to fundamental rights in the tense run-up to polling day, on election day itself, [...]

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday condemned Israeli forces in the West Bank for blocking and delaying ambulances carrying Palestinians to hospitals with “appalling regularity”, including forcing a pregnant woman in active labor to deliver on the road in an incident that cost the infant’s life. Bill Van Esveld, associate children’s rights director at Human Rights [...]

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on Wednesday charged Pavel Durov, founder and owner of the messaging app Telegram, with aiding terrorism, and subsequently placed him on an international wanted list. The FSB accused Telegram of failing to remove “numerous channels, chats and bots” allegedly used by Ukrainian intelligence agencies, terrorist and extremist organizations to “prepare [...]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday condemned Israel’s announcement of plans to accelerate the authorization of settlement outposts under Israeli domestic law in the occupied West Bank, warning that the move constitutes a “flagrant violation” of international law. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the measures on Friday following a clash that left four Palestinians [...]

A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday granted emergency relief, temporarily blocking portions of Trump administration immigration policies that would have caused tens of thousands of asylum seekers and immigrants with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from El Salvador, Sudan and Ukraine to lose work authorization, one day before new government policies were set to take [...]