According to a report released Monday by a UK human rights group, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia executed 184 people last year, the most in a calendar year since the group began monitoring executions six years ago. Reprieve, a London-based organization that litigates on behalf of death-row prisoners around the world, announced the figure and [...]

In a joint statement issued on Tuesday, France, Germany and the UK described their disappointment with Iran’s move to cease complying with the nuclear deal agreed in 2015, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPCOA). Following Article 36 of the JPCOA, the three European countries will now formally refer the issue to the [...]

The trial of three Belgian doctors who assisted Tine Nys, a 38-year-old woman, in ending her life in 2010 commenced on Tuesday in the Belgian city of Ghent. Euthanasia was legalized in Belgium in 2002 under stringent standards, but the defendants are accused of having violated these rules by not insuring that Nys’s condition was [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg issued a lengthy ruling on Tuesday finding that Russia violated treaty provisions requiring fair trials for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev under the European Convention on Human Rights. The case concerned the well-known former oil executives who had butted heads with Russian President [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition for review filed by the Republic of Sudan concerning the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. In 2017 the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit awarded several billion dollars to family members of victims of the embassy bombings. A 2001 lawsuit [...]

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) lauded El Salvador on Friday for passing a new law to aid people that have been or are at risk of being displaced due to violence from organized crime and criminal gangs. UN spokesperson, Liz Throssell, welcomed the passage of the legislation, saying it “opens the door for [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a lower court’s ruling that Iranian assets held outside of the US could be seized to satisfy a judgment issued in the US against Iran. The suit involves family members of US troops killed in the 1983 bombing of the US Marine Corp barracks in Lebanon. The family [...]

The Supreme Court of India on Friday issued an order to the central government and to the administration of the states of Jammu and Kashmir to begin an immediate review of restrictions on movement and landline, mobile phone, and internet access in those states. Internet access in Jammu and Kashmir has been blocked since August [...]

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced additional sanctions on Iran Friday. Pompeo said the US government’s intent is to intensify its economic sanctions upon Iran after Iran’s recent attack on US troops in Iraq. He also explained that the US will continue to attack Iran’s sources of revenue until Iran stops its “terror plots and campaigns [...]

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a lower court’s decision to remove a Netflix comedy that displayed Jesus Christ in a gay relationship. Minister Dias Toffoli stated that “the exercise of freedom of expression reaffirms and enhances other constitutional freedoms.” The film on Netflix is called, “The First Temptation of Christ,” and was produced by [...]