Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday condemned the increased immigration cooperation between Thai and Vietnamese authorities, warning that it puts Vietnamese refugees at imminent risk of forced removal in violation of international refugee law. HRW said that authorities have detained “scores of Vietnamese nationals” this year, including many individuals who have refugee and asylum status. [...]
Amnesty International warned on Friday that Colombia’s continued use of military courts to handle killings, torture, enforced disappearances, and other grave abuses by soldiers and police is a structural engine of impunity. In a new report, the rights group concluded that the military criminal justice system, known as the Justicia Penal Militar (JPM), remains deeply [...]
The United Nations’ top human rights body on Friday adopted a resolution ordering an urgent and independent fact-finding mission into allegations of human rights violations and other atrocities in the Sudanese city of El Fasher, where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have reportedly committed large-scale atrocities, including ethnically motivated killings, torture, summary executions, and [...]
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 [...]
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