Articles Tagged with Pussy Riot

Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) found Tuesday that the Court may exercise jurisdiction in the case of The Prosecutor v. Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri. El Hishri is alleged to have been a senior official of the armed group Special Deterrence Force. He is charged with 17 counts of crimes against [...]

The UN stated on Wednesday that Sudan’s war economy is contributing to sustaining the ongoing armed conflict between Sudanese military forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), through the trade of various Sudanese commodities, including gum arabic, one of the country’s main exports. In addition to external military support and weapons supply, the conflict in [...]

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian rights advocate, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court alleging a coordinated conspiracy between senior administration officials and three private organizations to target and deport him for his advocacy. Khalil was a former Columbia University graduate student who became the public face of the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activism. [...]

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico on Tuesday announced that the government has initiated several criminal complaints in response to the deaths of Mexican immigrants in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Mexico President Claudia ​Sheinbaum’s administration has begun filing complaints with US state prosecutors through the Mexican Embassy, and sending [...]

The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Tuesday that it has asked Trial Chamber IV for authorization to withdraw all charges against former Sudanese rebel commander Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain, concluding that the evidence is no longer sufficient to sustain the case. The proceedings are formally titled The Prosecutor v. [...]

The Wisconsin Elections Commission found probable cause that billionaire Elon Musk violated state election bribery law by offering $1 million payments to voters during the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election, according to reports on Tuesday. The commission voted 5-1 in a closed session last Thursday to refer two confidential complaints against Musk to the Brown [...]

A UN expert urged the UK government on Tuesday to protect women’s rights by maintaining single-sex spaces and services. The appeal comes as a draft Code of Practice is pending approval by the country’s Parliament, of which some members consider the draft a “deliberate rollback of minority rights in the UK for trans people.” The [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report Monday stating that Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh face deadly risks from the recent landslides that killed at least 17 and displaced over 3,000. Meenakshi Ganguly, deputy Asia director at HRW, said the risks to the refugee camps are a result of government policies, stating: Every monsoon is becoming [...]

The UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (GHREN) on Monday a condemned the government’s revocation of the credentials of numerous lawyers and notaries. According to testimonies from those affected, there was no notification, legal basis, nor official explanation for the revocation. Many did not know they had been stripped of their licenses until [...]

US President Donald Trump on Monday issued dual executive orders (EOs) reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah containing ancient cliff dwellings and petroglyphs by nearly three million acres, or about 90 percent each. The first order diminishes the size of Bears Ears National Monument from approximately 1.36 million acres to 121,100 acres, [...]