A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India on Friday held noted Indian civil rights attorney Prashant Bhushan guilty of criminal contempt. The Court took up the case against the prominent civil rights advocate over two tweets. The first tweet was about a photo of Justice SA Bobde, Chief Justice of India, riding a [...]
The Chief Justice of India told the Central Government Thursday to consider amending the Official Languages Act 1963 for allowing publication of official notifications in languages other than Hindi and English, the second official language of the Government of India. CJI Sharad Arvind Bobde made the recommendation while ruling on an appeal filed by the Union [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it had seized millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency from terrorist organizations al-Qassam Brigades, al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). The details of this operation, dubbed by the DOJ as the government’s “largest ever seizure of terrorist organizations’ cryptocurrency accounts,” [...]
The Parliament of Lebanon granted the national army broad emergency powers on Thursday after approving a state of emergency declaration for Beirut in response to unrest over the massive explosion in the city’s port that killed at least 200 people. Following the explosion of more than 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate warehoused in Beirut’s port [...]
New UK police powers took effect on Thursday that allow trained officers to stop, question, and, where necessary, detain and search individuals traveling through UK ports to determine involvement in hostile state activity. The powers were introduced in Schedule 3 of the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019. Hitherto, a police officer had to have reasonable [...]
A Mexican judge has issued arrest warrants for 19 former federal law enforcement officials for money laundering and organized crime, officials said Tuesday. The Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection initiated the case against these officials who worked under the Peña Nieto administration. Jesús Orta Martínez, former Secretary of Citizen Security, is among the suspects. [...]
COVID-19 is making it more difficult for Colombia’s indigenous Wayuu people to survive, according to a report released Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health. The Wayuu are an indigenous group that lives in La Guajira, a state in northeastern Colombia. In La Guajira, there is a high [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday condemned the Belarusian government’s violent reaction to peaceful protesters following Sunday’s presidential election. Protests erupted in Belarus following the announcement of contested preliminary election results on Sunday. Over three nights of protests, police arrested more than 6,000 people. Police reportedly used rubber bullets and water [...]
The US State Department did not evaluate risks of civilian casualties and implement measures to reduce them when it approved $8.1 billion arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in May 2019, according to an Office of Inspector General (OIG) report released Tuesday. The unredacted version obtained by Politico raises doubts over Secretary of State [...]
An Algerian court on Monday sentenced journalist Khaled Drareni to three years in prison for speaking out against the government. Drareni, who is well known in Algeria and has a twitter account of roughly 150,000 followers, reported on the Hirak protest movement, where Algerians are speaking out against the rule of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and [...]
