Articles Tagged with China

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear challenges to former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s withdrawal from plea agreements that would have spared three men accused of plotting the September 11, 2001, attacks from the death penalty. The justices denied petitions from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Mustafa al Hawsawi, and a separate petition from [...]

Amnesty International reported on Monday that authorities in Kenya committed human rights violations against protesters between 2023 and 2025, using restricitve measures to suppress youth-led demonstrations in response to a deteriorating economic situation in the country. In a report documenting events and popular protests in Kenya between 2023 and 2025, Amnesty International revealed that Kenyan [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Department of Justice v. McNutt, a challenge to federal restrictions on home distilling that tests the scope of Congress’s constitutional authority to protect tax revenue. The case asks whether prohibiting the production of distilled spirits in homes and adjoining sheds or yards is a valid exercise [...]

Amnesty International said Friday in a statement that Azerbaijan authorities must reverse school clothing rules that bar pupils and teachers wearing hijabs in classrooms, and must release people detained solely for peaceful protest. Commenting on the clothing restrictions and detention of protesters, Marie Struthers, Amnesty’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia director, stated: Denying girls access [...]

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday warned that the intensifying conflict in Yemen has cut off life-saving aid to approximately 800,000 people due to severely restricted access to the city of Taizz and other conflict zones. As frontlines shift, roads are blocked, and conflict intensifies, El-Khidir Daloum, WFP representative in Yemen, commented on [...]

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday reported that at least 31 people have been executed in Libya after unjust military trials since late August 2026. Bassam Khawaja, HRW’s deputy Middle East and North Africa director, decried the executions, saying: The Libyan Arab Armed Forces are putting people to death after secret trials built on confessions allegedly [...]

US President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled the livestream of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan’s firing-squad execution after bipartisan backlash. Trump stated on Truth Social that he still thought streaming the execution “might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan.” The families of [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in a case that asks whether federal judges must adhere to commentary on criminal sentencing guidelines created under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. The case implicates questions over the ongoing clash between judicial and administrative interpretative authority, as the court will likely weigh on the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court’s preliminary injunction against Florida’s law restricting minors’ access to social media, holding that the law is likely constitutional under the First Amendment. Writing for a unanimous panel, Judge Kevin Newsom concluded that Florida House Bill 3 (HB3) implicated the social [...]

Sri Lankan Deputy Foreign Minister Arun Hemachandra announced on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday that the Supreme Court of Saudi Arabia quashed the death sentence of Anojan Sivarasa, a 24-year-old Tamil migrant worker arrested in July over a Facebook comment. On September 17, an appellate court increased his sentence from five years’ imprisonment and a fine [...]