India’s president assented Monday to three new post-colonial criminal law reform bills, paving the way for their enactment. The president’s assent extends to three bills: the Bharatiya Sakshya Bill (BSB), Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The BSB and BNS are slated to replace the colonial-era Indian Evidence Act of 1872 [...]

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow ruled to arrest Ukrainian Intelligence Chief Kyrylo Budanov in absentia for the second time this year, accusing him of committing over 104 crimes including acts of terror. Budanov, who heads the Ukrainian intelligence agency Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (GUR), has been involved [...]

At a press conference Tuesday, the Vice Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced that planned protests against the electoral commission (CENI) would not be permitted. The protest, which was planned to take place in Kinshasa, was called by five oppositional candidates to incumbent Felix Tshisekedi. Early results from the December 20 [...]

A statement issued Monday by the Préfet de la Marne confirmed that an aircraft grounded at Vatry airport in Paris has left to Mumbai. The plane had been held during a refuelling stopover at the french airport due to suspicions of human trafficking. Authorities were alerted on December 21 via an anonymous tip that the flight, [...]

Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Eli Cohen announced Monday that Israel will not renew the visa of one employee and will not issue a new visa to a second employee of the UN working on the ground in Israel and Gaza. Cohen did not specify who the UN officials were. Cohen claimed that the move [...]

The Republic of Azerbaijan on Monday declared two French embassy employees as “personea-non-gratae.” In a press release, the Azerbaijan Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the employees engaged in actions “incompatible with their diplomatic status,” and in contraction to the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The two employees have 48 hours to leave the [...]

Pakistan’s Ministry of Interior announced Monday that the Pakistani police have released all 290 Baloch activists that were arrested while attempting to protest forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings last week in Islamabad. Around 200 Baloch activists traveled 1,600 kilometers from Balochistan, Pakistan to Islamabad. They attempted to protest the death of Balaach Mola Bakhsh, who [...]

The Chadian National Commission in charge of the Organisation of the Constitutional Referendum (CONOREC) announced the new constitution will be adopted after an 86 percent vote in favour of the referendum, with a participation of 63,75 percent, in a ceremony for results proclamation Sunday. The draft of the proposed constitution was adopted in June by [...]

Spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry Nasser Kanaani stated in a news conference Monday that Iran will continue to seek the release of former Iranian official Hamid Nouri, whose conviction and sentence of life in prison for human rights abuses in Sweden was upheld last week in the Svea Court of Appeal. Kanaani stated that the [...]

According to a statement Monday by a spokesperson for prominent Russian dissident, Alexei Navalny, he has been located in the Russian penal system in IK-3 in the settlement of Kharp in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District in northwestern Siberia. The opposition leader had been missing in the Russian prison system for nearly three weeks, ever since [...]