Norwegian prosecutors on Monday indicted two Norwegian nationals and a Norwegian company for allegedly paying bribes to leaders in the Republic of the Congo in exchange for offshore oil drilling rights. Authorities announced that the individuals and oil company Hemla Africa Holding, subsidiary of Norwegian oil group Petronor E&P, were indicted of gross corruption and [...]
As the trial of six Italian officers in a 2023 shipwreck is set to begin Friday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called the proceedings a crucial opportunity for asylum seekers and migrants killed at sea to receive justice. The officers, including two Italian Coast Guard and four Customs Police officers (Guardia di Finanza), are [...]
UN experts on Monday cautioned against the escalating use of arrests and criminal proceedings against agricultural trade union activity in France, after authorities detained 52 farmers during peaceful protests in Paris this month. On January 15, union leaders and members of the Confédération Paysanne held protests in opposition to the EU-Mercosur Deal, signed in December [...]
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Monday that he is beginning an investigation into TikTok due to reports of the platform suppressing content critical of US President Donald Trump. Newsom and his team announced via X that they have received multiple reports from sources stating that the widely-popular TikTok platform had been recently suppressing the [...]
The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan (UNMISS) on Monday expressed concerns over “highly inflammatory” rhetoric, accompanied by troop movements, by senior military officers in South Sudan. A statement by a military commander in Jonglei State, calling for indiscriminate violence against civilians, had reportedly led to 180,000 fleeing their homes. This was deemed [...]
Two media outlets reported Monday on states’ abuses of Interpol red notices to target political dissidents and human rights defenders. Amnesty International urged Interpol to address this “grave institutional failure” and improve its transparency. Disclose, a French investigative media outlet, reported that Interpol has disclosed to the public less than 10 percent of the 86,000 [...]
A US federal appeals court on Monday declined to reinstate a lower court injunction on federal agent tactics at protests in Minnesota. The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit refused to extend a trial court’s preliminary injunction that prohibited agents from retaliating against individuals engaged in “peaceful and unobstructive protest activity.” The injunction [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) concluded on Monday that former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte is fit to stand trial. Following the assessment by a three-expert panel, the chamber found that Duterte’s medical condition does not prevent him from meaningfully participating in the pre-trial proceedings. Two experts unequivocally confirmed that Duterte has the legally required mental [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case that asks whether the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) applies to users who sign up for newsletters from websites that use Meta’s tracking technology. The lawsuit accuses Paramount Global of violating the VPPA by disclosing digital subscribers’ identities and video media information, without [...]
The European Commission opened an investigation on Monday into X (formerly Twitter) and the use of its AI chatbot Grok to generate sexually explicit images of women and underage girls without their consent. The investigation will determine if the AI tool violates the Digital Services Act (DSA) and whether X failed its obligation to properly [...]
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