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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated in a report published on Wednesday that the conviction and the imprisonment of Bangladeshi protesters by the Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal was “unjust” and called for the immediate release of all those sentenced. In its report, HRW denounced the “arbitrary” detention and conviction of 57 Bangladeshi citizens who [...]

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of Vietnam filed a claim to the UN’s Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) to extend the limits of its underwater continental shelf in the South China Sea, according to a statement published by the ministry on Thursday. In its statement, the ministry asserted that Vietnam [...]

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Albania’s Ministry of Justice allowed Monday the temporary release of jailed politician Fredi Beleri to travel to Strasbourg, France and take oath as a member of the European Parliament after he won a seat in the European elections held in June. Local media reported that Albania’s Ministry of Justice and General Directorate of Prisons granted [...]

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The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ruled on Wednesday that Nigeria violated the provisions of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) in its response to the protests that took place in October 2020, according to a statement published by the court. In its ruling, the [...]

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