Amnesty International, in a report released on Wednesday, revealed that Chinese courts are utilizing ambiguous laws to crack down on civilians’ freedoms of speech and association, subjecting individuals to arbitrary arrests and violations of fair trial rights. The report, titled “How Could This Verdict be ‘Legal’?”, analyzes more than 100 “official indictments and verdicts from [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a statement on Thursday calling on the Lebanese authorities to immediate release Hannibal Gaddafi, who has been held in pre-trial detention for 10 years. HRW reported that Gaddafi, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, was detained by Internal Security Forces in December 2015 “on apparently unsubstantiated allegations that he [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Monday issued a statement urging Hong Kong authorities to ensure that journalists can work freely, and called for the renewal of a Bloomberg reporter’s work visa. Bloomberg reporter Rebecca Wilkins announced that “after six years of reporting in Hong Kong,” her visa was denied. The Foreign Correspondents’ Club [...]
In a press release on Monday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) denounced the killing of five members of the press in an Israeli airstrike at Southern Gaza’s Nasser Hospital. The CPJ called for the international community to prevent further unlawful attacks on journalists with impunity. CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah condemned the military action. [...]
The Directorate-General for the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations on Tuesday issued a joint statement addressing Israeli restrictions preventing NGO’s from providing life-saving aid to Gaza. The joint statement was signed by 27 “partners on aid to Gaza,” including foreign ministers of 24 countries. Among these were the UK, France, the Netherlands and [...]
UN experts on Wednesday condemned Israeli attacks deliberately targeting Gaza’s healthcare system as gross violations of international law and “medicide.” In a UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner press release, UN experts defined “medicide” as the deliberate targeting of healthcare infrastructure and workers as a “component of the intentional creation of conditions” for [...]
French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the Israeli government’s announcement of its intention to expand its military ground offensive in Gaza, calling for a permanent ceasefire and a UN-backed international coalition to help stabilize the region and support Palestinian governance. In a statement, France criticized the expansion of Israeli military occupation of North Gaza as “rash [...]
The UK High Court of Justice on Monday dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation’s legal challenge to aspects of the new Online Safety Act (OSA), ruling that the organization failed to establish sufficient grounds to bring the case. The court dismissed the claim on the basis that Wikimedia failed to demonstrate how legislative and administrative decisions to [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday unsealed an arrest warrant for a militia officer who allegedly committed war crimes in Libya during non-international armed conflict, including murder, torture, and outrages upon personal dignity. The UN Security Council referred the situation in Libya to the ICC in 2011 in accordance with Resolution 1970 (2011), giving [...]
The UN warned on Thursday that women and girls in Sudan are facing a “gender emergency” as the North Darfur state capital of El Fasher remains under siege, facing starvation, violence and a cholera outbreak. The UN Women representative in Sudan, Salvator Nkurunziza, warned that this leaves women and girls more vulnerable to abuse and [...]
