Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday signed into law an amnesty measure that authorities say is intended to ease political tensions and accelerate the release of political prisoners. The law, titled the Amnesty Bill for Democratic Coexistence, authorizes a “general and full” amnesty for people prosecuted or convicted for political or related offences. The [...]
UNICEF published a statement Thursday expressing deep concern with the detention of children in Iran amid ongoing public unrest. The statement, by UNICEF regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, Edouard Beigbeder, stresses several key issues. First, the number of child detainees, and conditions they face, have not been available. Secondly, Beigbeder detailed the [...]
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced Thursday that the province will hold a referendum on provincial immigration control and constitutional amendments in October 2026. The provincial referendum will ask Albertan voters nine questions. In terms of policy issues, voters will indicate their stances on increased provincial control over immigration to prioritize economic migration; limiting provincial social [...]
The US Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision Friday on the legality of President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). In a 6-3 decision, the Court held that the IEEPA does not authorize the president to impose tariffs. The IEEPA was enacted in 1977 to address significant [...]
Former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday after the Seoul Central District Court found him guilty of leading an insurrection over his brief imposition of martial law on December 3, 2024. The court held that Yoon’s decision to declare martial law and deploy military and police forces against [...]
Four plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to block President Donald Trump’s planned 250-foot “Independence Arch” at Memorial Circle near Arlington National Cemetery. The plaintiffs, Vietnam War veterans Michael Lemmon, Shaun Byrnes and Jon Gundersen, and retired architectural historian Calder Loth, are represented by the [...]
West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey filed suit against Apple on Thursday, arguing that the company turned a blind eye to iCloud encryption methods that facilitate mass transmission of child pornography. The suit focuses on Apple iCloud and its use of end-to-end encryption, which makes digital files inaccessible to law enforcement. iCloud, which backs up and [...]
UN experts condemned Israel’s continued attempts to take over the Palestinian West Bank on Wednesday, following approved measures that grant Israel power to purchase land in the occupied territory with almost no limitations. Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, stated: These measures are [...]
UN experts on Wednesday urged member nations to place a higher emphasis on curbing the “over-criminalization” of women and girls across the globe ahead of 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70). The announcement detailed reports on the dramatic increase in incarceration of women in recent decades. Women’s imprisonment has increased [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a special report Thursday containing Palestinian journalists’ first-hand accounts of torture in Israeli prisons. The stories come from 59 testimonies of released journalists. Forty-eight of them were never charged with a crime, but detained under Israeli policies allowing six-month detentions without charge, renewable indefinitely. Others were charged with [...]
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