Muhyiddin Yassin, the former prime minister of Malaysia and current leader of the opposition coalition, Perikatan Nasional, was formally charged Tuesday with sedition for allegedly insulting the country’s previous monarch. This marks the first time a former prime minister has been prosecuted under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act 1948. The charges stem from comments [...]
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced Tuesday that it has opened criminal cases against at least seven Western journalists who illegally crossed the state border of the Russian Federation near Sudzha in the Kursk region. The FSB stated that the journalists were charged with violating Part 3 of Article 322 of the Criminal Code of [...]
US federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment Tuesday against former president Donald Trump on four criminal charges related to a federal investigation into interference with the 2020 presidential election. Special Counsel Jack Smith filed the indictment in response to a July Supreme Court decision that US presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for actions taken within [...]
A new report by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) released on Monday found that Canada’s Bill C-26 will allow the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s national cryptology agency which provides the Canadian government with technology security as well as foreign signals intelligence, to escape transparency requirements. Bill C-26 grants the CSE additional powers [...]
Venezuela prosecutors issued a second summons to opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez on Monday for questioning regarding an opposition website that posted detailed results surrounding the disputed presidential election last month. The website is reported to have provided detailed voting results of the election to the public, displaying an indisputable victory in Gonzalez’s favour. The voting [...]
The head of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Venezuela, Juan Carlos Delpino, announced in a statement published on Monday a series of irregularities during the July 2024 presidential elections in Venezuela, questioning the electoral process and the integrity of the announced results. “Everything that happened before, during and after the presidential election, points to [...]
The Indian Supreme Court granted bail to Kalvakuntla Kavitha, the leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) party, on Tuesday in the money laundering case related to the Delhi liquor policy scam after the high court rejected her bail application on July 1, 2024. The money laundering and corruption case was brought against Kavitha by [...]
The Office of the President of the Philippines released a statement criticizing Chinese maritime forces for repetitive and illegal actions in the South China Sea on Monday. The presidential office’s security forum, the National Security Council of the Philippines, also shared a press statement, describing that a Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) vessel, [...]
Head of Libya’s unrecognized government Osama Hammad announced on Tuesday the suspension of the country’s oil exports in response to attacks and kidnappings of employees of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) amidst a broader struggle for control between rival factions. The country has been divided by power struggles and currently has two rival governments—a [...]
The Israeli High Court of Justice dismissed on Sunday a petition filed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) against the police’s confiscation of anti-war signs held by demonstrators at anti-war protests. The petition was filed on April 11 following a series of protests calling for a ceasefire held across Israel, where Israeli police [...]
