Articles Tagged with Death Penalty

Slovenians on Sunday voted in a referendum against a new law legalizing euthanasia, following mounting pressure from critics of the law. Around 53 percent of voters rejected the law, while 47 percent voted in favour. This result means the parliament cannot vote again on a bill addressing the same issue within the next 12 months.   [...]

South Korea’s special counsel has indicted former President Yoon Suk Yeol for allegedly orchestrating a cover-up of a military investigation into a Marine’s death, marking the latest criminal charge against the ousted leader, according to local media. The indictment was announced Friday after the special counsel questioned Yoon over allegations that he ordered the presidential [...]

Brazil’s federal police arrested Saturday former president Bolsonaro and took him into custody under preventive detention. Bolsonaro had been under house arrest since August 8, after charges brought by the government for an attempted coup d’état and attempted violent abolition of the democratic rule of law. Despite applying to the Federal Supreme Court for a [...]

The former Wales leader of right-wing populist political party Reform UK,  Nathan Gill, was imprisoned on Friday after pleading guilty to accepting bribes from Kremlin-linked figures. The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales sentenced Gill to 10 years and six months imprisonment under Section 2 of the Bribery Act 2010. Gill pleaded guilty to [...]

The European Commission on Friday formally launched an infringement procedure against Slovakia over constitutional reforms seeking to preserve the country’s “national identity” in matters such as gender and family law. The Commission cited the amendments’ alleged violation of the fundamental principles of European Union law. These reforms “contravene the principle of the primacy of EU [...]

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily stayed a lower court order that blocked Texas’s new congressional map that would have created additional seats for Republicans. The Supreme Court order temporarily restored the new congressional map, pending further review, hours after Texas’s Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an emergency appeal following the lower [...]

Philippine police and law enforcement agencies are moving to arrest 18 suspects in a corruption scandal related to government flood control efforts that has ignited massive street protests and toppled powerful congressional leaders. The  issuance of arrest warrants was announced by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Friday. At the center of the case is former [...]

The UN decried on Friday a recent attack against civilians perpetrated by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) armed group in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The UN described the incident as “one of the most appalling attacks” ever recorded in the country, and indicated that it may constitute a war crime. According to [...]

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights should take decisive action to address Egypt’s long-running human rights crisis following its review of the country’s record, 22 organizations said on Thursday. The statement followed the commission’s 85th session, during which both the Egyptian government and the commission’s country rapporteur presented reports that rights groups claim [...]

United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2803 violates Palestine’s right to self-determination, Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese stated on Wednesday, calling it “security-first, capital-driven model of foreign control” that entrenches existing power asymmetries. Albanese, a UN expert appointed as Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said that the resolution [...]