Ireland’s lower house of parliament, the Dáil Éireann, voted to “take note” of the final report of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying (JCAD), with 76 votes for and 53 against, on Thursday. The vote has no legal effect but indicates support for legislation in the area. It is up to both houses of parliament [...]

A 49-year-old man named Atsunobu Usuda reportedly threw several firebombs at the headquarters of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the Nagatacho district of Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward, and rammed a van into a barricade at the nearby Prime Minister’s office on Saturday. According to local media, he threw five of what appeared to be [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that Italy did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights by determining that an inmate’s life sentence should not be reduced to 30 years. The court found that the applicant, Ferdinando Cesarano, could not legitimately have expected to receive any other penalty than “life imprisonment [...]

Iran’s Supreme Court ordered a retrial of labor rights activist Sharifeh Mohammadi who had been sentenced to death for treason, according to local media that spoke to her lawyer on Saturday. The order lifts her death sentence while she awaits a retrial. In the Revolutionary Court conviction, Mohammadi’s alleged membership in the National Labor Unions [...]