A Saudi court sentenced seven militants to death Wednesday over a 2014 shooting attack near Al-Ahsa that killed eight Shiite Muslims. Three suspected Daesh members opened fire on Shiites who were celebrating Ashura, the Muslim holy day observed on the tenth day of Muharram, killing eight people. According to the reports by Al Ekhbariya channel, seven defendants [...]

The Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information technology banned 118 mobile apps Wednesday in an effort to put pressure on Chinese technology companies. The ministry said in a press release it had received multiple complaints that the banned apps had stolen users’ information and transmitted it to servers outside of India. The ban comes as [...]

The Rwanda Investigation Bureau has arrested Paul Rusesabagina, whose actions inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda,” on offenses related to terrorism, arson, kidnap and murder. The crimes were allegedly perpetrated against unarmed Rwandans in Nyabimata, Nyaruguru District, in June 2018, and in Nyungwe, Nyamagabe District, in December 2018. The Rwanda Investigation Bureau made statements on Twitter [...]

Canada and the Netherlands announced Wednesday that they will jointly aid with legal issues in the ongoing genocide case brought by The Gambia against Myanmar in the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In November 2019, The Gambia filed a case against Myanmar at the ICJ, alleging that Myanmar committed genocide against the Rohingya ethnic group [...]

Eleven defendants accused of aiding the militant Islamist attackers who killed twelve people in and around French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s Paris office in 2015 testified in a French court Wednesday. Three other defendants in the trial – Hayat Boumedienne, Mohammed Belhoucine, and Mehdi Belhoucine – are being tried in absentia after having fled the [...]

The Jehovah’s Witnesses reported Wednesday that two of the religious group’s members have been found guilty of extremism by the Berezovsky City Court (Kemerovo Region) in Russia. The two had been detained since 2018 on criminal charges and were sentenced to four years in prison for being members of an extremist organization. The prosecution in the case had [...]

Will Easton, the Managing Director of Facebook Australia & New Zealand, has released a statement saying that Facebook would no longer permit the sharing of local Australian news content if the Australian Parliament passes the draft News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commissions (ACCC) has said that the Australian Government [...]

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday announced economic sanctions against the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Gambian lawyer Fatou Bensouda. Bensouda has held the position since 2012, when she replaced Argentinian Luis Moreno Ocampo, the ICC’s first chief prosecutor. Bensouda had previously served as Ocampo’s assistant.  Characterizing the ICC as [...]

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simons have signed an Antitrust Cooperation Framework with competition agencies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.  The main aim of the Multilateral Mutual Assistance and Cooperation Framework for Competition Authorities [...]

The US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts Monday, for failure to consider repatriation. The position of the US is that the issue of repatriation is of vital importance to address the problem of terrorism at its root, and that “all nations need to [...]