Poland’s conservative ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) announced on Sunday the second question in its proposed nationwide referendum. The referendum, scheduled to coincide with the 2023 parliamentary election in October, will include multiple questions pertaining to issues facing Poland. The second question the referendum will pose to Polish citizens is: “Do you support the acceptance [...]

Canadian news publishers and broadcasters represented by News Media Canada, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters and CBC/Radio-Canada filed an application with the Competition Bureau of Canada Tuesday requesting an investigation into Meta’s conduct relating to the implementation of the Online News Act. The complaint centers around Meta’s recent decision to block news content from its [...]

Russia passed a new law on Friday allowing courts to strip foreign owners from hostile countries of stakes in key Russian entities, in a purported attempt to protect strategic companies from foreign influence. According to the text, the purpose of the new law is to protect the rights of Russian citizens and entities, ensure national [...]

Singaporean authorities executed Mohamed Shalleh Bin Abdul Latiff, a 39-year-old former delivery driver, Thursday for trafficking 54.04 grams of diamorphine, a controlled drug, which is four times the amount required to trigger the mandatory death penalty under Singapore’s Misuse of Drugs Act. Shalleh is the second person executed by the country in the last week. [...]

Ghana’s Parliament voted Tuesday to amend the country’s Criminal Offences Act to replace the death penalty with life imprisonment. The vote came after Minister of Parliament (MP) Francis-Xavier Sosu introduced the amended bill with the backing of rights groups. The bill will see 170 inmates currently on death row have their sentences commuted to life [...]

Guatemalan presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalo accused authorities of “political persecution” on Friday after police raided his center-left Semilla party headquarters. Arévalo condemned the raid as an attempt to hinder his campaign for the 2023 presidential election, the second round of which is scheduled for August 20. Prosecutors say they were enforcing a court order which suspended [...]

The French National Assembly adopted a justice reform bill on Tuesday that would allow law enforcement to remotely activate devices’ cameras, microphones and location services for investigations of terrorism, organized crime or crimes punishable by five or more years in prison. Remote activation requires a demonstrable need and approval from a judge on a case-by-case [...]

Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Relations sent a diplomatic note to the US government on Friday expressing its concerns about the deployment of floating barriers by Texas on the Rio Grande. The memo raised concerns that the barriers may violate 1944 and 1970 treaties on boundaries and water, which require the river to remain unobstructed, and [...]

The European Parliament narrowly passed its proposed Nature Restoration Law as part of the European Union’s (EU) European Green Deal on Wednesday. The plan, proposed by the European Commission, sets targets for increasing biodiversity and improving the health of ecosystems across the EU. These include restoring wetlands and grasslands, increasing forest cover and protecting threatened [...]

A group of United Nations (UN) human rights experts called on the Russian Federation on Friday to investigate and bring to justice the perpetrators of a violent attack against journalist Yelena Milashina and human rights lawyer Alexander Nemov. The incident occurred on July 4 in the Russian Republic of Chechnya. Milashina was covering and Nemov [...]