On Monday, the Constitutional Court of the Central African Republic (CAR) declared Faustin Archange Touadera president for a third term, finding that he received some 78 percent of the vote in last month’s election. Touadera has been president of CAR since 2016. Before provisional results were released on January 5, Touadéra’s opponents alleged he engaged [...]

 The South African Department of Defence on Friday announced an investigation into accusations that officials failed to follow President Cyril Ramaphosa’s instructions on Iran’s role in a multinational naval exercise. The ministry, led by Defence Minister Angie Motshekga, said its authorized Board of Inquiry must establish what occurred and submit a report within seven days [...]

The Taiwan Ciaotou District Court on Saturday ordered the incommunicado detention of a journalist. The District Prosecutors Office accused the journalist of bribing army officers to obtain military information, in violation of the island’s National Security Act, Anti-Corruption Act, and criminal provisions regarding the disclosure of confidential information. In a press statement, the District Prosecutors [...]

The Federal Court of Appeal of Canada on Friday ruled that the Canadian federal government’s 2022 invocation of the Emergencies Act was “unreasonable” and beyond the government’s legal authority. The ruling affirms the 2024 Federal Court decision by Justice Richard Mosley, who concluded the statutory threshold for declaring a public order emergency was not met. [...]

The Libyan Attorney General’s Office on Friday announced the discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of 21 bodies. A prosecutor in Benghazi charged an individual identified by the initials “MFH” with human trafficking in connection with the discovery. A joint investigation by the Internal Security Agency and Battalion 166 led to the unearthing [...]

Twenty-four volunteers of the humanitarian NGO Emergency Response Centre International (ERCI) were acquitted this Thursday after facing criminal charges for more than seven years, following their arrest during search and rescue operations on the Greek island of Lesvos in August 2018. The court, presided over by Judge Vassilis Papathanassiou, stated: “Waiting to rescue a human [...]

Amnesty International on Friday called on the Cambodian government to support victims who escaped from scamming compounds. The rights group reported on 15 videos showing thousands of escape attempts and releases at 10 compounds across Cambodia in the past 36 hours. Amnesty International’s regional research director Montse Ferrer said: Footage appearing to show the mass [...]

Myanmar on Friday began its defense before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the ground-breaking genocide case brought by the Gambia, rejecting all allegations of genocide against the Muslim Rohingya minority. Myanmar’s agent Ko Ko Hlaing emphasized Myanmar’s recognition of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, but said [...]

The Seoul Central District Court on Friday sentenced former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison on several charges, including obstruction of investigators’ attempt to detain him last year. This marks the first criminal sentence imposed as a result of Yoon’s December 2024 declaration of martial law. Friday’s sentencing convicts Yoon [...]

UN officials and human rights organizations have raised alarm over Iran’s response to nationwide protests, warning that the use of lethal force by security forces may constitute serious violations of international law. Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee briefed an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Thursday, describing the situation in Iran as “fluid and [...]