Former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday after the Seoul Central District Court found him guilty of leading an insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law on December 3, 2024. The court held that Yoon’s decision to declare martial law and deploy military and police forces against [...]

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) opened an inquiry into social media platform X on Tuesday following reports that its AI chatbot has produced sexual deepfake images. The DPC investigation concerns the apparent creation and dissemination “of potentially harmful, non-consensual intimate and/or sexualised images” on X created using integrated AI chatbot “Grok,” developed by owner Elon [...]

Puerto Rico’s governor on Thursday signed a law to recognize a fetus as a human being for the purposes of homicide law. The signed law was approved by the Senate of Puerto Rico as Senate Bill 923. It amends the definition of murder under the territory’s Penal Code. The definition now treats the killing of [...]

The UN’s top human rights official on Monday warned of increasing atrocities in Sudan and demanded the international community take quick action to de-escalate violence in the country. UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk told member states at the Human Rights Council in Geneva that “we can only expect worse to come” unless international action [...]

The UN’s top human rights official on Thursday demanded that Burkina Faso end its clampdown on civic freedoms, including an announced ban on political parties. In his comments, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk emphasized that the government’s decision to prohibit political parties marks a serious setback for the freedoms of expression, association and political participation [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged both Taliban and Pakistani authorities on Thursday to investigate the killing of Afghan journalist Abdul Ghafor Abed. Abed, a provincial reporter for Taliban-controlled Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), was killed on October 15 while covering cross-border clashes between Taliban and Pakistani forces in  Zazai Maidan district of Afghanistan’s Khost [...]

The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan warned on Monday that the nation faces a renewed wave of armed violence, deepening human rights violations, and mass displacement, stating that the country’s political leaders have “deliberately stalled progress and brought South Sudan to yet another precipice.” The Commission’s mission to the African Union revealed [...]

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted on Thursday in a rare mortgage fraud case, facing charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution related to a 2020 home purchase in Norfolk, Virginia. In response to the indictment, James issued a statement describing the charges as “nothing more than a [...]

Young Moroccans took to the streets for the ninth consecutive night on Sunday, calling for an end to corruption and a change of government. The rallies have been organized online by the anonymous “GenZ 212” group, and have spread across the country since September 27. According to Morocco World News, a couple of hundred young [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday condemned Tajikistan’s authorities for wrongfully imprisoning lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov for 10 years and urged his release, citing politically motivated charges linked to his work representing opposition figures. Buzurgmehr Yorov was arrested in September 2015. Authorities raided his home and office without a warrant and charged him with forgery, fraud, [...]