Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed an executive order Tuesday making it easier for people in Brazil to buy guns. The order removes the requirement that persons seeking to purchase a gun must declare why they need the gun. It also loosens restrictions around owning guns. A person may now own up to four guns—up from the [...]
The UK House of Commons on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to withdraw the country from the EU. The plan was defeated by a margin of 230 votes, with 432 Members of Parliament voting no and only 202 voting in the affirmative, marking the largest defeat for a sitting government proposal in [...]
The Mannheim District Court in Germany dismissed a patent lawsuit from Qualcomm against Apple on Tuesday. Qualcomm filed the suit against Apple due to the use of Qualcomm chips in Apple’s smartphones. The court determined that Qualcomm’s lawsuit against Apple was groundless. The lawsuit was determined based on the language of the patent which the court determined [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday acquitted former Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé of charges for alleged crimes against humanity during 2010 and 2011 in the Ivory Coast, saying the prosecutor failed to proffer sufficient evidence of the charged acts. The decision brings Gbagbo’s nearly eight-year detention to an end. Specifically, the prosecution failed to [...]
Nigerian Chief Justice Walter Nkanu Onnoghen was set to stand trial Monday on six charges of allegedly failing to declare assets and holding foreign bank accounts. While Onnoghen was not present at the trial, his team of 94 lawyers were present to defend him on these claims. In addition, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) released [...]
A Chinese court on Monday retried Canadian defendant Robert Lloyd Schellenberg for smuggling drugs and sentenced him to death. In November the Dalian Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Schellenberg to 15 years in prison for smuggling drugs and confiscated personal property of RMB 150,000 for deportation. On Schellenberg’s appeal, the Liaoning Provincial Higher People’s Court held that [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Saturday for its major donor nations to issue sanctions against Asadullah Khalid, the Defense Minister of Afghanistan, pointing to “redible evidence of serious human rights abuses and war crimes” that have accumulated “throughout government career.” HRW cited 2007 internal Canadian documents describing Khalid’s human rights violations as “numerous and consistent.” The violations [...]
Four UN special rapporteurs and experts on human rights said on Friday that they are “extremely concerned” by extrajudicial police killings in Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state. The experts have sent a letter containing information to the Indian Government on 15 cases, most of which concern individuals from poor Muslim families. The UN officials say [...]
The High Court of Myanmar on Friday rejected the appeal of Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were sentenced to seven years in jail for violating the Official Secrets Act in September. The journalists were arrested in 2017 while investigating military operations in northern Rakhine State. Judge Aung Naing, in making his [...]
The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday struck down a restrictive law that prevented Canadian citizens living outside the country from casting ballots in national elections. The question before the court revolved around a section of the Canada Elections Act that stated that citizens of Canada have the right to vote as long as they [...]
