Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that several articles of the Iraq National Oil Company Law were unconstitutional. The law is meant to establish the Iraq National Oil Company as a public company owned by the state for oil and gas production and development. The unconstitutional articles related to the objectives of the company and the [...]

The European Court of Human Rights found Thursday that there had been numerous violations of human rights under the European Convention on Human Rights during the Amanda Knox investigation, ordering Italy to provide financial damages. Knox was accused of the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, while studying abroad in Italy. The charges [...]

Alberto Fujimori returned to prison Wednesday to finish out the remaining 13 years of his 25-year sentence for human rights crimes. Fujimori, former president of Peru, has been in prison since 2009 for human rights crimes committed by death squads under his regime. Fujimori was pardoned for his health in 2017 by former president Pedro [...]

Central African Republic (CAR) militia leader Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona is set to appear before the International Criminal Court on Friday after he was transferred to the court from France on Wednesday. Ngaïssona rose to prominence as a football official in the CAR and eventually became a board member of the Confederation of African Football. Ngaïssona has [...]

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) proposed a bill on Wednesday aimed at incorporating the People’s Republic of China’s National Anthem Law  into Hong Kong’s regional law by means of local legislation rather than “promulgation.” The bill, as well as the original order is meant to “preserve the dignity” of the anthem of the People’s Republic [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday expressed her serious concern that the approval of an amendment to Guatemala’s long-standing National Reconciliation Law would result in complete immunity for all cases of grave human rights violations. Guatemala’s National Reconciliation Law has been in force since 1996 and was crucial to ending 36 [...]

The European Court of Justice ruled today that the United Kingdom must continue to accept asylum seekers in accordance with European Union law up to the point that Brexit becomes official. The case stems from a family of three seeking asylum in Ireland. Originally, the family lived in the UK under a student visa for [...]

The deaths of four individuals at the hands of Pakistani police over the weekend have sparked public outrage. Police in Pakistan claimed to have killed four “terrorists” linked to the Islamic State (IS) in an “intelligence-based” gunfight near the city of Sahiwal in Punjab province on Saturday. It was only when an injured nine-year-old boy, [...]

A Russian judge ruled in a closed pretrial hearing Tuesday that US citizen Paul Whelan will remain in Russian custody until his trial. Whelan has been imprisoned in Russia since December 28, when Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested Whelan on suspicion of espionage while he was allegedly visiting Russia for a wedding. Whelan was later charged [...]

France’s data protection watchdog group (CNIL) fined Alphabet’s Google on Monday for breaching EU internet privacy rules. The €50 million (USD $57 million) fine is the largest penalty thus imposed on a US tech company, thanks to an increase in sanction limits under the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR, enacted in [...]