Kuwaiti authorities have increased the repression of government critics in 2024, according to a new report published by Amnesty International on Thursday. The report found that authorities have engaged in various forms of repressive acts since January, including arbitrarily arresting and stripping Kuwaiti citizenship from civilians as well as prosecuting Kuwaiti politicians. Amnesty International Researcher [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an order on Thursday authorizing the UK to submit written observations regarding the Court’s jurisdiction over Israeli nationals within the context of the Oslo Accords. Additional interested parties may request to submit their observations until 12 July 2024. The UK, a state party to the ICC’s Rome Statute, requested [...]

Montenegro’s Special State Prosecutor’s Office ordered an investigation into former special chief prosecutor of for war crimes against Croatian civilians in the Cavat area in 1992 and during the break up former Yugoslavia, according to local media reports on Thursday. The Special State Prosecutor’s Office (SDT) arrested Katnic on April 14, accusing him of inhumane [...]

Internal Affairs Minister of Serbia Ivica Dačić ordered the ban of “Mirëdita, Dobar Dan!” festival in Belgrade on Thursday, citing security concerns, according to the country’s public broadcaster RTS. Held since 2014 with the participation of Albanian and Serb artists and taking the name from the word “good afternoon” in the respective languages, the festival [...]

The Communist Party of China (CPC) expelled two of its former defense ministers had been expelled from the party Thursday, citing the reasoning of “serious violation of Party’s discipline and the law,” according to government news agency Xinhua. The ministers in question are Li Shangfu and Wei Fengh.  Li Shangfu was first removed from the [...]

A 19-year-old man has been charged with a terrorism offense in New South Wales after briefly entering the office of State Member for Newcastle Tim Crakanthorp with plans to kill him, according to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) on Thursday.  The man, identified as Jordan Patten from Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, has been refused [...]

The UN announced on Thursday the additional deployment of UN peacekeepers in the southeast Haut Mbomou region of the Central African Republic to prevent further violence. Valentine Rugwabiza, the head of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), announced the deployment at a UN Security Council Briefing. Rugwabiza reported that [...]

Indonesian immigration officials announced Friday the arrest of 103 Taiwanese nationals suspected of running a cybercrime operation in Bali. However, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs contested this claim, stating that according to information received by its unofficial diplomatic mission in Indonesia, only 14 of the 103 individuals arrested were believed to be Taiwanese nationals. The [...]

Malawi’s Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed the case of two applicants seeking to legalize same-sex relationships, marking a significant setback for LGBTQ+ rights in the country. The three-member judge panel, consisting of Justices Joseph Chigona, Chimbigzani Kacheche and Vikochi Chima, delivered their ruling after six hours of deliberation. The judges ruled that the applicants failed [...]

India’s Jharkhand state high court granted bail on Friday to opposition party Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Hemant Soren in a money laundering case. The court considered the evidence presented by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the investigative agency responsible for financial crimes, and came to the conclusion that the requirements for bail set under Section [...]