James Comey, former FBI director, was charged on Monday with leaking national security information, and conspiring to leak such information, while directing the FBI in 2016. Comey was charged with violating the Espionage Act, 18 U.S.C. § 793(d), which criminalizes improperly sharing any document that “relat to the national defense, or information relating to the national [...]

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed that the “Leave India Notice” issued to Bollywood actor Imran Khan by the Foreigners Regional Registration Officer (FRRO), Mumbai, be kept in abeyance until November 2. A division bench adjourned the hearing after the Additional Solicitor General of India sought deferment and recorded that the notice dated October [...]

Australian Supreme Court Judge Claire Harris on Monday rejected prisoner Andre McKechnie’s human rights challenge to the ban on the spread Vegemite in Australian prisons on the grounds that its ban is “demonstrably justified” by the management, security, and good order of the prison and welfare of the prisoners. McKechnie filed a “frivolous” suit last [...]

The UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced charges on Tuesday against two British men under the National Security Act 2023 (NSA) over a suspected Iranian-backed plot targeting Royal Air Force (RAF) Fairford, a military air base in Gloucestershire, England, which is jointly operated with the US. Chief Crown Prosecutor Frank Ferguson of the CPS Special [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday voiced concern over a South Korean proposal that would allow medication abortion in 2027, saying it includes overly restrictive regulations that continue to impair the rights of women and girls to safe and affordable reproductive healthcare services. In a comprehensive public briefing, the organization examined the regulatory framework governing [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday renewed calls for international action and accountability for alleged atrocities committed by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, North Darfur, one year after the paramilitary group captured the city. HRW detailed widespread abuses surrounding the RSF’s October 2025 takeover, including mass killings, sexual violence, abductions and the [...]

A coalition of nine human rights and press freedom organizations on Monday called on the European Commission to strengthen export controls on digital surveillance technologies to prevent European Union (EU) member states from supplying tools used by governments to violate human rights. In a joint submission to EU Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maroš [...]

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday held that the Trump administration’s firing of federal prosecutor Maurene Comey was unconstitutional and in violation of the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA). Under 5 US Code § 7513 of the CSRA, an agency may take action against an employee “only for [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit questioned the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday over its emergency demand that California election officials set aside the mail ballots of roughly 20,000 people the government suspects are non-citizens. After a nearly two-hour hearing, the panel took the matter under submission [...]

UN Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism Muluka-Anne Miti-Drummond on Friday called for coordinated global action against color-based discrimination, warning that prejudice linked to skin color continues to restrict persons with albinism from accessing healthcare, education, employment and public life and, in its most extreme forms, exposes them to [...]