The European Commission announced preliminary findings against Apple and Google, charging them with two violations of the Digital Markets Act on Wednesday. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is the EU’s law to regulate the power of large digital platforms to ensure a fair and contestable market. The European Commission designated gatekeepers under the DMA, which [...]

Russian online media RusNews revealed Wednesday two letters from an imprisoned journalist and anti-war activist, Maria Ponomarenko, which demonstrate her current suicidal tendency. Amnesty International urged the authorities to protect her from further self-harm and release her immediately. RusNews stated that the Russian authorities censored the letters, which indicated her suffering in prison and asked [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report on Wednesday urging Mexican authorities to conduct a “thorough” and “impartial” investigation into a possible mass killing site outside the city of Guadalajara, in Jalisco state. According to the report, a local search collective called the Jalisco Search Warriors on March 5 uncovered a remote ranch site where [...]

The UN warned on Wednesday that the recent surge of gang violence in Haiti has led to the forced displacement of over 60,000 citizens, marking a record in the country’s already dire humanitarian situation. The UN noted that the escalation of gang violence in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, has spread to several neighborhoods outside the capital [...]

The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday denied a motion for a temporary restraining order (TRO) to prevent Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) takeover of the US Institute of Peace (USIP), after DOGE forcibly entered the USIP offices earlier in the week. Judge Beryl Howell stated that USIP failed [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday condemned the Turkish government’s detention of over 100 individuals, including Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, calling it a severe escalation of its crackdown on the political opposition. Amnesty International’s deputy regional director for Europe, Dinushika Dissanayake, characterized the government’s actions as a severe intensification of the ongoing suppression of peaceful dissent, and [...]

Amnesty International raised concerns on Tuesday regarding the ongoing human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Since the Rwandan-backed rebel group, M23, captured the city of Goma in January, violence has continued to escalate. The organization called for the international community to take action and pressure all actors to comply with International [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday condemned the extensive use of Paragon Solutions‘ Graphite spyware to target journalists and human rights defenders in Europe, and called for urgent regulatory action to protect civil liberties. The condemnation comes following a recent Citizen Lab investigation report, which revealed a growing spyware crisis in Europe, raising critical questions about privacy, surveillance, [...]

Amnesty International expressed concerns on Tuesday about the recent approval by the Peruvian Congress of an amendment to Law 27692, which established the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI). The organization cited potential restrictions on human rights as a key issue and warned that the reform threatens Peru’s civil society by limiting human rights activism [...]

A federal judge for the Southern District Court of New York found on Wednesday that the court does not have the proper jurisdiction to hear the merits of detained student activist Mahmoud Khalil’s petition regarding his arrest by ICE agents, moving the case to the District of New Jersey where Khalil’s challenge to his arrest, [...]