International rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday criticized the “baseless charges” brought against two human rights defenders arrested by El Salvador police in May, and called for their immediate release. José Ángel Pérez, 55, and 29-year-old Alejandro Antonio Henríquez were arrested while peacefully protesting the mass eviction of dozens of families from El [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Wednesday called on Houthi de facto authorities in Yemen to immediately restore access to independent news platform Barran Press, following reports of a nationwide access ban on the outlet. Barran Press, which is based in the government-controlled city of Marib, east of Yemen’s capital Sanaa, first reported the [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Wednesday called on Indonesian authorities to investigate recent incidents of assault, harassment, and intimidation against journalists covering nationwide protests in the archipelagic state and hold those responsible to account.  In the wake of demonstrations that erupted on August 25 over low wages, new tax increases, and pay raises [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday called upon the Sri Lankan authorities to put an immediate end to what it called the government’s harassment of photojournalist Kanapathipillai Kumanan, after a police notice obtained by the organization revealed that Kumanan had been summoned by the counter-terrorism police for questioning. The summons comes in the [...]

Former Bangladeshi Minister for Posts, Telecommunications, and Information Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak was detained at an airport in the country’s capital Dhaka while attempting to flee to New Delhi, local media outlets reported Tuesday.  According to the Dhaka Tribune, Palak, who served as the IT Minister in the recently ousted Awami League government, was detained [...]

At least 25 people were reportedly killed and dozens wounded in an attack by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Saturday on the city of El-Fasher in western Darfur, local pro-democracy activists El-Fasher Resistance Committees shared on Facebook.  In their post, the Resistance Committees accused the militia of “indiscriminately shelling the city’s neighborhoods with heavy artillery.” [...]

The Greek Ministry of Labor and Social Security announced Monday that they would be restricting outdoor work, ordering businesses to refrain from allowing their employees to perform heavy outdoor labor during the afternoon as the extreme heatwave plaguing southern Europe enters its second week.  With temperatures expected to hit 42 degrees Celsius on Wednesday and [...]

The Tunis Court of Appeal Specializing in Financial Corruption Cases has issued arrest warrants against Tunisian businessman and former MP Lotfi Ali, as well as the former CEO of the Gafsa Phosphate Company (CPG), Romdhane Souid, TAP reported Saturday.  Speaking to TAP, Deputy Attorney General Sonia Moussaoui confirmed the issue of the arrest warrants, and [...]

The Federal Parliament of St. Kitts and Nevis on Friday voted to pass the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill, which introduces fundamental changes to the freedom of information framework under current legislation and will codify key improvements that will enhance the government’s operational efficiency, promote transparency in the rule of law and limit, if not [...]

Prosecutors in France have charged a 19-year-old man and another, minor, youth in the vicinity of Paris with ‘terrorist conspiracy’ after they were found to be planning a militant terrorist attack on Jewish targets, a judicial source told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Friday.  The teens, who met via social media, were allegedly planning a “violent [...]