A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a Yemeni blogger living in Riyadh to jail and then deportation for a social media post supporting equal rights for all in Saudi Arabia, according to a Human Rights Watch report. The tweet features a video of Mohamad al-Bokari responding on social media to whether he supported equal rights. He [...]

Samoan chief Joseph Matamata has become the first person to be convicted on charges of both human trafficking and slavery in New Zealand. Matamata faced ten counts of trafficking and 13 counts of slavery in a five-week trial before the High Court in Napier. The charges stem from activities between 1994-2019 when Matamata systematically enslaved [...]

Former Malayisan Prime Minister Najib Rajak has been sentenced to 12 years in prison at the end of a trial stemming from the 1MDB corruption scandal. The Kuala Lumpur High Court found Najib guilty on all seven charges of abuse of power, breach of trust, and money laundering. Judge Mohamad Nazlan Ghazali Tuesday ordered the sentences [...]

The Hiroshima District Court Wednesday issued a ruling recognizing dozens of additional survivors from the US’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. The decision allows all 84 plaintiffs, who have suffered radiation-related illnesses connected to the bombing, to receive the same benefits as other victims who lived closer to the [...]

An independent panel of experts has cleared Akinwunmi Adesina, the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), of corruption charges. The African Development Bank, established in 1963, provides financing to African countries for projects that contribute to economic and social development. The Code of Conduct for Executive Directors, adopted in 2001, did not apply to [...]

China announced on Tuesday the suspension of Hong Kong’s extradition treaty with Canada, Australia and the UK. This action comes in retaliation to the suspension of the treaties by the other countries first. The three countries had suspended the treaties in response to the Hong Kong National Security law enacted by China. The Chinese government [...]

According to a UN human rights report published Tuesday, women detained in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are subjected to multiple and serious human rights violations by security and police officials. The report was based on 100 first-hand accounts by North Korean women who were detained between 2009 and 2019. These women were detained [...]

A group of unions representing Brazilian health workers filed a complaint Monday against President Jair Bolsonaro in the International Criminal Court (ICC), alleging that Bolsonaro’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a crime against humanity. Brazil currently has the second highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world, with almost two million individuals infected and [...]

The Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) filed suit against Google on Monday, alleging that Google misled consumers to obtain consent to expand the type of personal data that Google can collect. Google allegedly used this information for a variety of purposes, including targeted advertising. From June 2016 through December 2018, Google account holders were [...]

Poland announced its decision Saturday to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention on violence against women, spurring an uproar among EU leaders, human rights organizations and activists worldwide. Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro stated in a press conference that his ministry would begin withdrawing from the treaty as early as Monday. Ziobro and other government officials [...]