The Prosecutor General of Paraguay ordered on Thursday the opening of investigations into President Santiago Peña’s role in the collapse of a major digital bank named Ueno Bank, following a complaint filed by the Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP). The Attorney General’s Office reported that investigations were launched following a complaint filed by the Minister [...]
Amnesty International called on Thai authorities Wednesday to prevent the deportation of two Uyghur men to China, warning that their return could expose them to torture, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance. The calls come amid renewed concerns over China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The rights group urged Thailand to [...]
Amnesty International on Tuesday welcomed the French War Crimes Unit’s opening of a judicial investigation into a deadly Israeli strike on a civilian building in central Beirut in November 2024 is a critical step toward justice, truth, accountability, and reparation. France launched the investigation after the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Ali Cherri, [...]
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in the case Guerrero v. Johnson, which contemplates whether an inmate on death row can bring a second round of federal appeals challenging his execution due to an intellectual disability. Dexter Johnson was sentenced to death in 2007 over his role in a 2006 double murder [...]
The UK Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday in Huda Ammori’s appeal challenging the government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000. Ammori’s case is that Palestine Action was a conscientious protest group aiming to disrupt the supply of weapons to Israel from the UK at a time when [...]
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced plans Thursday to commute all 548 death sentences in the state to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. In an open letter to Californians, Newsom said capital punishment could not be administered fairly and had resulted in wrongful convictions. “I firmly believe that state-sanctioned killing is incompatible with California’s [...]
The US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday enjoined the US government from deporting some 200 Afghan nationals detained in the US to Afghanistan or Pakistan. The temporary restraining order (TRO) requires the government to confirm that it will not send a number of asylum seekers back to Afghanistan or [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday declined to reconsider a decision pausing restrictions on the Justice Department’s communications with election officials, leaving the stay in place during ongoing ballot processing and counting. The court’s denial of full-court rehearing followed an 11-judge en banc panel’s 6-5 decision earlier Tuesday to reinstate [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) President Tomoko Akane addressed the UN General Assembly Monday, calling on the 193 member-nations to take “concrete actions” on sanctions imposed on the ICC by US President Donald Trump on October 9. Nine of the 18 judges appointed to the court, including Akane, are under sanctions for fulfilling their duties to [...]
Amnesty International on Tuesday called on Malian authorities to reveal the fate and whereabouts of politician Mountaga Tall and his son, Cheick Mamadou Tall, six months after both men went missing in Mali’s capital city, Bamako. Tall is a lawyer and the leader of the National Congress for Democratic Initiative (CNID), an opposition party in [...]
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