The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called on Chinese authorities to immediately release veteran journalist Dong Yuyu after the Beijing High Court upheld his seven-year prison sentence for espionage. The CPJ said the court affirmed the conviction without providing reasons, and that the appeal decision is final under China’s system. “Speaking with diplomats [...]

England’s High Court of Justice on Friday ruled that Australia-based company BHP Mining was liable for the collapse of the Fundão Dam in Brazil over a decade ago—which caused the country’s worst environmental disaster—despite the company not owning the dam then. In delivering the long-awaited decision, Justice Finola O’Farrell held that the collapse, which killed [...]

US President Donald Trump asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with former US President Bill Clinton in a Truth Social post on Friday. Trump’s Truth Social post stated: Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Tanzanian government on Thursday to open an independent investigation into alleged killings, disappearances and repression carried out by security forces after the country’s disputed October 29 election, warning that “serious violations” of rights may amount to international crimes. Tensions had been building before the vote. Opposition leader Tundu Lissu [...]

Amnesty International and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP) released on Thursday more than 2,700 New York Police Department (NYPD) documents obtained after a five-year lawsuit. The groups say that the documents reveal extensive and discriminatory surveillance practices. The records, ordered to be disclosed by a New York state court in 2022, show repeated use [...]

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt granted clemency on Thursday to death row inmate Tremane Wood, reducing his sentence to life in prison without parole just hours before his scheduled execution. Tremane Wood was convicted in 2004 of the first-degree murder of Ronnie Wipf and was ultimately sentenced to death. Wood’s co-defendant and brother, Zjaiton Jake Wood, [...]

A US federal judge on Thursday took up a case by eight Democratic-led states challenging the Trump administration’s termination of millions of dollars in teacher-training grants. US District Judge Angel Kelley said that the challenge to the Department of Education’s decision to cancel certain educational grants belonged both in federal district court and in the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed concern on Wednesday over deteriorating legal protections for Uyghur migrants living in Türkiye. The report revealed that Türkiye has subjected Uyghurs to inhumane conditions and the risk of deportation to China. The report stated that Turkish authorities’ immigration crackdown involves assigning “restriction codes” to Uyghurs, denoting them as threats to [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) joined a lawsuit on Thursday over the redrawing of California’s congressional districts, requesting that the state be enjoined from using it in the 2026 election. DOJ stated in the complaint: Although the Supreme Court has allowed race-conscious redistricting to rectify prior violations of the Voting Rights Act, the Department [...]

A US federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to release hundreds of people from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers, claiming they were arrested in likely violation of the Castañon Nava federal consent decree. The order, penned by Judge Jeffrey Cummings of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, [...]