The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, is arbitrarily detained for espionage and should be released on Tuesday. The submission criticized the Russian government for the serious unjustifiable deprivation of his freedom and rights during the criminal procedure. The UN working group on arbitrary detention found that [...]

Spain’s Tribunal Supremo on Monday upheld arrest warrants for Catalonia’s former leader Carles Puigdemont and other Catalan separatists charged with embezzlement, ruling that a recent amnesty law does not relieve them of their penal responsibility. The politicians, currently living in exile, are facing charges connected to the organization of the 2017 Catalan independence referendum, which [...]

The Exit and Entry Administration of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) announced Monday the issuance of a new travel permit for non-Chinese citizens of Hong Kong and Macau to facilitate the travelling procedures for those entering mainland China. According to a statement published by China’s National Immigration Administration, the new Mainland travel permit will [...]

The World Benchmarking Alliance found that 90 percent of the world’s 2,000 most influential companies do not meet social expectations relating to human rights, in its report published on Tuesday. The Alliance called on policymakers and investors to ensure companies are being held accountable for protecting labour rights. The report found that companies which are [...]

A group representing families of Libya’s Abu Salim Prison Massacre victims protested Monday on the 28th anniversary of the killings over the failure to achieve justice in the case. The association urged “that the secrets of the crime be revealed, justice be established, retribution be imposed, and that everyone who participated in this horrific massacre [...]

Australia’s Adelaide Magistrates Court found South Australian legislator Fraser Ellis guilty of four counts of deception on Monday for misuse of the accommodation allowance available to members of parliament. Fraser Ellis, an independent MP representing the Narungga electoral district in the South Australian House of Assembly, was found guilty of four counts of deception in [...]

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) reported on Monday that an estimated 84,000 people had to escape Eastern Gaza as a result of the ongoing military conflict. Heavy bombardments in the eastern Shujaiya district and denied access to an aid distribution hub aggravated the situation. According to [...]

Human rights groups and victims’ families of the August 2020 explosion at Beirut’s shipping port called for a UN-led international investigation into human rights violations connected to the blast in a statement released on Monday. The joint letter urged member states of the UN Human Rights Council to bring forward a resolution during the current [...]

Laws criminalizing coercive control came into force in New South Wales (NSW), Australia on Monday. Section 54D of the NSW’s Crimes Act 1900 criminalizes coercive conduct and abusive behavior against intimate partners by attaching a maximum penalty of seven years imprisonment upon conviction. The legislation, which is the first stand-alone offence of coercive control in [...]

The EU has warned that Georgia’s new “foreign agent” law has put Georgia’s bid for EU membership into jeopardy. The European Council specified that the new “foreign agent” law “represents backsliding” on Georgia’s path to EU membership. At present, the EU announced that the new law has led to “a halt of the accession process” [...]