Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday condemned the decision of the Phnom Penh Court of Appeal in Cambodia to uphold the conviction of detained opposition leader Kem Sokha, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison in 2023. HRW described the conviction as politically motivated and urged Cambodian authorities to quash it and immediately release [...]
International human rights organizations on Thursday called on Nepal’s newly elected government, led by Prime Minister Balendra Shah, to take immediate steps to strengthen human rights protections and uphold the rule of law following its recent electoral victory. In a joint letter, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Commission of Jurists urged the [...]
A federal appeals court on Friday suspended a Biden-era regulation that allowed the abortion drug mifepristone to be prescribed online and dispensed through the mail. The ruling immediately halts telemedicine abortion pill prescriptions nationwide while litigation continues. The unanimous three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stayed the Food and [...]
The US Supreme Court sided with a Christian faith-based pregnancy crisis center in New Jersey on Wednesday. The First Choice Women’s Resource Centers was seeking to curb a state investigation into its activities. All Supreme Court justices unanimously reversed a lower court’s decision, ruling in favor of First Choice in a federal lawsuit. First Choice had [...]
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a proposed class action accusing the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) of conspiring with law schools to fix application fees and monopolize the admissions process, but gave the plaintiff until May 12 to file an amended complaint. US District Judge John Murphy of the US District Court for the [...]
The Supreme Court of British Columbia on Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of a new law that establishes a single regulatory body for lawyers, notaries and paralegals. Chief Justice Ronald Skolrood found that the law would not erode the independence of the legal profession. Chief Justice Skolrood affirmed that the independence of the legal profession is [...]
The European Parliament on Tuesday adopted a resolution urging the European Commission to establish a consent-based definition of rape. The need for a new definition that does not define rape on the conditions of use of force, or the word “no,” aims to have a victim-centered approach to sexual assault and the trauma responses it [...]
A grand jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday indicted 10 current and former Mexican officials for importing large amounts of drugs into the United States, along with related offenses. The officials include the current governor of Sinaloa state, Rubén Rocha Moya, as well as a Sinaloa [...]
UN rights experts urged the Court in Algiers Tuesday to stop the trial of Mohamed Tadjadit, noting that the “reclassified” charges the the prominent activist now faces are punishable by death. A poet and human rights defender, Tadjadit is associated with the Hirak movement, which first arose in 2019 in opposition to then-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika [...]
A US soldier pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of using classified intelligence on the raid and capture of Venezuelan President Nicolàs Maduro to win $400,000 on prediction market betting site Polymarket. Gannon Ken Van Dyke is a 38-year-old US Special Forces soldier who was involved in the planning and execution of Maduro’s capture. [...]
