Amnesty International on Friday said that holding the Myanmar presidency must not shield Min Aung Hlaing from accountability for rights abuses, stating that “no individual should have immunity from prosecution for crimes under international law, no matter their position.” Min Aung Hlaing, the former head of Myanmar’s armed forces, led the 2021 coup that overthrew [...]

Two poets, Artyom Kamardin and Yegor Shtovba, remain imprisoned in Russia as of Friday, on charges related to their reading of anti-war poems. This has been an ongoing matter since December 2023, when a Moscow court sentenced Kamardin to seven years and Shtovba to five and a half years in prison. The court declared both [...]

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Sunday he would accept a proposal from the country’s largest remaining rebel group to allow an independent commission to investigate its alleged links to drug trafficking. On January 20, Antonio García, leader of the National Liberation Army, released a video stating that although the group collects taxes from cocaine [...]

The Enugu High Court in Nigeria ruled Thursday that the former British colonial administration was liable for a 1949 labor dispute that caused 21 worker deaths. Justice Anthony Onovo awarded each victim’s family £20 million in compensation, which he stated would be an “effective remedy and compensation for the violations of the right to life.” [...]

A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Saturday sentenced 10 individuals to house arrest for plotting to keep former president Jair Bolsonaro in power following his defeat in the 2022 election. The decision, issued by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, came shortly after Paraguayan authorities arrested a former senior police official linked to the case. [...]

A court in Moscow on Thursday convicted a pro-war activist and critic of Vladimir Putin, Sergei Udaltsov, of justifying terrorism, sentencing him to six years in a maximum-security prison. The ruling was delivered by the 2nd Western District Military Court, which found Udaltsov guilty over an article he published more than two years ago defending [...]