The head of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Venezuela, Juan Carlos Delpino, announced in a statement published on Monday a series of irregularities during the July 2024 presidential elections in Venezuela, questioning the electoral process and the integrity of the announced results. “Everything that happened before, during and after the presidential election, points to [...]

The appellate division of the Seoul Central District Court ordered on Thursday that the Japanese corporation Nippon Steel pay 100 million won to the four children of a Korean citizen who was a victim of forced labor in Japan during the Second World War, local media reported. The Seoul court ruled in favor of the [...]

Panama started on Tuesday its first deportation flight of irregular migrants who entered the country through the Darin jungle, local media reported. This constitutes the first of a series of flights financed by the US Department of State to return irregular migrants to their home countries. According to local media, the first flight repatriated 29 [...]

A Greenland court ordered on Thursday that anti-whaling activist Paul Watson remain in custody until September 5 in order to ensure his presence in connection with the decision on his extradition to Japan, according to a statement published by Greenland Police. The statement added that the detained activist appealed this decision to Greenland’s High Court, [...]

Amnesty International urged Ivory Coast authorities to immediately provide the required support measures to the thousands of Ivorian citizens who have been evicted from their homes since January 2024, according to a report published on Wednesday. The NGO also called for the respect of human rights principles and the suspension of the mass evictions of [...]

The Copenhagen District Court sentenced a Polish citizen to four months in prison and imposed on him an entry ban for six years for assaulting Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in June, local media reported on Wednesday. In a verdict rendered by a unanimous jury, the Copenhagen District Court convicted the man for violence against [...]

President of Bangladesh Mohammed Shahabuddin dissolved the country’s parliament following the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and weeks of deadly civil unrest, local news reported on Tuesday based on a press release from the president’s office. According to local media, President Shahabuddin took the decision to dissolve the parliament following a meeting with armed [...]

The chairman of the Independent Public Inquiry of the Omagh bombing, Alan Turnbull, announced on Tuesday the opening of the inquiry’s first hearing. This hearing constitutes the first step that will allow the investigation team to consider any procedural issues related to the conduction of future public hearings and the whole investigation into the Omagh [...]

Amnesty International released a report on Tuesday criticizing the living conditions of the residents of the Samos Closed Controlled Access Centre (CCAC) in Greece. The report stated that the arbitrary detention of the refugees violated European standards and international law. Thus, the NGO urged the EU to hold Greece accountable for human rights violations and [...]

The lower house of the Parliament of Poland, known as Sejm of the Republic of Poland (SRP), approved a bill permitting the country’s Armed Forces, the Police and the Border Guard to use firearms against migrants attempting to illegally cross the Belarusian border. The Sejm approved the bill on July 12 but it still needs [...]