Articles Tagged with humanitarian blockade

An anti-terrorism court in Islamabad on Friday sentenced seven people for incitement of violence and spread of hatred against state institutions during the May 2023 riots. Those convicted include YouTuber Adil Raja, journalists Wajahat Saeed Khan, Sabir Shakir and Shaheen Sehbai, anchorperson Haider Raza Mehdi, analyst Moeed Pirzada, and former army official Akbar Hussain. All [...]

A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday ruled that California’s restrictions on openly carrying firearms in the state’s more populous counties violate the Second Amendment. In Baird v. Bonta, a 2–1 panel affirmed in part and reversed in part the district court’s summary judgment for California Attorney General [...]

Danish renewable energy giant Orsted said on Thursday that it has launched legal action against US President Donald Trump’s administration over the suspension of its $5 billion Revolution Wind Project off the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut. The project was 87 percent complete at the time of suspension, and Orsted expected it to start [...]

US President Donald Trump’s administration claimed that it had conducted a “large-scale strike” in Venezuela early Saturday morning, culminating in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. They were reportedly being transported to face criminal charges in the US. Witnesses reported at least seven explosions in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, around 4:30 [...]

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Friday urged the Israeli government to abandon proposed legislation that would mandate death sentences solely for Palestinians in specific cases, for committed both in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Türk stated that the proposed legislation is “inconsistent with Israel’s obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and [...]

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday condemned the pending $11.1 billion US arms sale to Taiwan, characterizing the deal as a violation of the “One China” principle and a dangerous signal to “separatist forces.” The statement was made on the closing day of the operation “Justice Mission 2025,” a large-scale military exercise conducted by [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on leaders of the armed rebel coalition controlling Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to fully account for the abduction and torture of journalist Honneur-David Safari, and to prevent any further attacks on reporters.  The RSF shared the following about Safari’s release and urged an end to [...]

The US on Wednesday announced sanctions against four companies operating in Venezuela’s oil sector, declaring four associated oil tankers as blocked property. In the statement released by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the US government alleges that some of these vessels are part of the “shadow fleet” serving Venezuelan President Nicolás [...]

US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he is “removing” National Guard troops from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland after a major Supreme Court setback that sharply narrowed his authority to federalize state guard units for domestic law-enforcement missions. The court’s decision casts the Chicago deployment as likely unlawful under the Posse Comitatus Act, and [...]

Indonesia enacted its new penal code on Friday, replacing colonial-era laws that had governed the country for over a century. Coordinating Minister for Legal, Human Rights, Immigration and Corrections Yusril Ihza Mahendra described the move as a historic milestone that marks the beginning of a new era in Indonesia’s legal system. The legal reform implements [...]