The Calcutta High Court in the Indian state of West Bengal on Thursday granted protection from arrest and any coercive action until July 10 to a senior police officer. The court’s decision came after India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) served a notice on Rajeev Kumar, former Commissioner of Kolkata Police, over an alleged “suppression [...]
US President Donald Trump announced intentions late Thursday to issue a 5 percent tariff on all goods entering the US from Mexico. The president’s tariff is being issued in response to his perception that migrants from Latin America are continuously crossing the border into the US. Immigration has been a major issue for Trump since [...]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a bill enabling people with certain diseases to legally adopt children who are living with them. Before this bill was signed, a 2013 list of diseases created by the Russian government was used to enforce a ban on all adoption proceedings by disease-positive individuals. This ban prevented individuals [...]
A group of technology companies and organizations have sent an open letter condemning the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) proposal to secretly add law enforcement to encrypted chats. The letter from the Open Technology Institute—along with 47 signatories including Google, Apple and WhatsApp—details concerns about threats to cybersecurity and human rights that this proposed action [...]
Canada’s Senate voted 55-33 Tuesday to approve strict gun legislation. The bill enhances background checks, requires firearms retailers to keep records of sales for 20 years, and requires police-licensed handgun owners to get permission from police to transport their police registered firearms to police approved gunsmiths or face criminal charges. It also would be a [...]
The Scottish Government released a framework bill Wednesday that would enable another independence referendum vote. The bill does not establish a date, question, or referendum period, all of which would have to be set in a separate piece of legislation. Scotland last voted on independence from the UK in 2014, when voters rejected the proposal [...]
The Westminster Magistrate’s Court ruled Wednesday that MP Boris Johnson must appear in court to face an accusation of misconduct in public office. The claim alleges that Johnson lied in order to encourage voters to leave the EU. Johnson was a prominent figure in the campaign to for Britain to leave the EU and resigned as [...]
Amnesty International on Wednesday released a report claiming the Myanmar military has committed violations of war crimes and other human rights violations against the ethnic armed group the Arakan Army (AA) since January 4. The report finds that the military has fired indiscriminately in civilian areas, killing and injuring civilians and damaging homes and other [...]
The Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, filed a motion for summary judgment on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to accelerate its lawsuit against the US government. The lawsuit, initially filed in March, involves Section 889 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This provision explicitly prohibits executive government agencies [...]
Amnesty International France called Monday for French authorities to stop the Bahri Tabuk, a commercial ship believed to be carrying weapons to Saudi Arabian forces in Yemen. The Bahri Tabuk is suspected to be carrying an arms shipment from Canada, including various military vehicles to reinforce the Saudi Arabian forces in Yemen. The ship docked [...]
