Two UN Special Rapporteurs on Monday condemned the decision by Russia to detain activist and opposition leader Alexei Navalny while praising him for his bravery. After Navalny returned to Russia Sunday from Germany, where he was recovering from a nerve agent poisoning attack since August, he was immediately detained. A judge ordered Monday that he [...]

Ugandan authorities on Monday allowed restoration of some internet services in the country, five days after a shutdown that occurred as last week’s election approached. While connectivity has been restored to 90 percent of ordinary levels following the announcement of the election result—a landslide victory for President Yoweri Museveni, who has held office since 1986—Ugandans can [...]

The Indian Supreme Court on Monday issued notice in a petition challenging the All India Bar Examination Rules 2010 which require an advocate to qualify for the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) within two years after enrolment to a State Bar Council. The writ petition has been filed by Parthsarthi Mahesh Saraf, a new advocate [...]

Scotland’s top criminal court refused to overturn the murder conviction of the “Lockerbie bomber” in a 64-page appeal judgment released Friday. A panel of five judges in the Scottish High Court of Justiciary upheld the late Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi’s conviction for 270 counts of murder. The murders were committed in 1988 when Megrahi placed [...]

On Monday, the Seoul High Court sentenced Samsung chairman Lee Jae-yong to two and a half years in prison on charges of corruption and bribery. Mr. Lee is the son of former Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee, who was himself the son of Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul. Samsung is Korea’s largest chaebol, which refers to family-owned [...]

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday announced the country’s withdrawal from the Treaty on Open Skies following the US departure from the treaty last year. In a statement, Russia maintained that the US departure from the agreement was done under an “artificial pretext” and that it “essentially destroyed the balance of interests reached when [...]

Israel Education Minister Yoav Galant announced Sunday that he is banning groups that call Israel an “apartheid state” from lecturing in schools. The ban is said to be in response to Israeli human rights group B’Tselem. According to B’Tselem, Israel’s control over Palestinian territories is “inextricably bound up in human rights violations.” The group released [...]

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on the Cuban Ministry of Interior and the Minister of Interior, Lazaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, for alleged human rights abuses on Friday. Under Executive Order 13818, the Treasury Secretary has the authority to impose sanctions. The Treasury Department has also recently imposed [...]

The Supreme Court of South Korea on Thursday upheld a 20-year prison sentence for former President Park Guen-hye who was convicted on charges of abuse of power, bribery and coercion in 2018. The rejection of Park’s appeal exhausts all legal remedies, leaving open only the option of a special presidential pardon by incumbent President Moon [...]

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued an opinion Thursday in its first case heard in the Irish language. The case concerned the scope of the national court’s discretion to grant relief when national law breached EU law. The case involved an EU directive that required veterinary medicinal products to be packaged [...]