Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Thursday that security forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) employed excessive force against demonstrators protesting a proposed constitutional reform that could extend President Félix Tshisekedi’s term. HRW stated that security officials used batons and tear gas canisters against protesters to prevent a sit-in in front of [...]
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday that her government plans to seek criminal complaints in the United States over the deaths of Mexican citizens while in immigration custody or during anti-immigration operations. Since US President Donald Trump launched the current immigration crackdown, at least 14 Mexican nationals have died in the custody of US [...]
Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan was spared prison time on Wednesday when she was sentenced to pay a $5,000 fine for purportedly obstructing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the courthouse arrest of an undocumented immigrant. US District Judge Lynn Adelman indicated that prison time was unnecessary and instead ordered the fine, conveying that [...]
The General Court of the EU on Wednesday dismissed Apple’s challenge to its designation as a “gatekeeper” under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), handing the European Commission a significant victory in one of the first major judicial tests of the law. In Joined Cases T-1079/23, T-1080/23, and T-214/24, the court rejected Apple’s challenge to the [...]
A UN Syria inquiry on Wednesday called on the international community to address Syria’s detainee and human rights crisis, which has persisted even after the downfall of the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, pressing the new authorities to account for thousands still missing, ensure fair trials, and put an end to the violence that continues to [...]
South Korea on Tuesday began enforcing an amended law designed to curb the spread of false and manipulated information online, amid growing concern over AI-generated content and misinformation on social media. The amendment to the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection allows courts to award punitive damages against news [...]
UN Human Rights spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan on Tuesday called on states and sports organizations to prevent racism and other forms of discrimination following racist remarks against French footballer Kylian Mbappé made by Paraguayan Senator Celeste Amarilla. In a press release, Al-Kheetan called Amarilla’s statement despicable but unfortunately not isolated. The spokesperson urged states and sports [...]
UN experts on Wednesday condemned the sentencing of Pakistani human rights defender Mahrang Baloch to two terms of life imprisonment by a court in Quetta, describing it as a “travesty” of justice. The experts stated that Baloch’s conviction and life sentence represented a misuse of counter-terrorism laws that aimed to suppress human rights activism and [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that German authorities on June 20 deported Tajik opposition activist Asadullo Boboev and his adult son, Muhammad, to Dushanbe, despite warnings that Boboev faced detention and mistreatment on return. HRW Europe and Central Asia director Hugh Williamson stated: Germany is failing to uphold its international obligations to protect those [...]
Egypt has been arbitrarily arresting and deporting refugees with expired permits, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. The majority of these refugees and asylum seekers are from Sudan and South Sudan. Sudan is in year four of a deadly civil war, while renewed violence plagues South Sudan . The situation in Egypt is due in [...]
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