Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday that Taliban authorities are perpetrating gender persecution against women and girls in Afghanistan. Following the conclusion of the report, international justice director at HRW Elizabeth Evenson called for coordinated support by from the international community to ensure that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has the resources and needed cooperation [...]

The Supreme Court of Ohio granted motions to dismiss two challenges to congressional maps on Thursday, upholding the use of maps that have previously been deemed unconstitutional. Both motions were filed on Tuesday by petitioners contending that the maps were drawn with unfair partisan bias. The court granted one dismissal in Neiman v. LaRose, and another [...]

The Council of the European Union (EU) announced new sanctions Friday against six people it says committed human rights violations in the Ukrainian region of Crimea, which has been occupied by Russian forces since 2014. The six individuals were singled out by the EU in particular for participating in legal proceedings against journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko, [...]

A US federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Texas can leave the floating barrier in the Rio Grande after a district court ordered the state to remove it on Wednesday. Texas Governor Greg Abbott appealed the order along with an emergency motion to stay the district court’s order earlier on Thursday. A panel of judges [...]

The Sri Lanka government announced on Wednesday that a special parliamentary committee is to be established to probe allegations made by UK media outlet Channel 4 regarding the complicity of Sri Lanka’s top intelligence official in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which had killed more than 200 people.  The 2019 Easter Sunday attacks involved six [...]

The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal refused on Thursday to grant four pro-democracy protesters—Kwok Wing-kin, Mak Tak-ching, Lee Cheuk-yan and Stanley Ho Wai-hong—leave to appeal their convictions over violating public gathering limits. Judge Roberto Ribeiro rejected their appeal by finding that the regulation which they violated is no longer in force and of general [...]

The Canadian government on Thursday announced the appointment of Quebec Court of Appeal Justice Marie-Josée Hogue to chair a public inquiry into claims of foreign interference in Canadian elections. Justice Hogue will preside over an independent inquiry investigating interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections by China, Russia, other foreign states and non-state actors. Hogue [...]

Former Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro was found guilty on Thursday of two counts of criminal contempt of Congress. This conviction, a result of Navarro’s refusal to comply with a subpoena from the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, makes him the second senior official from the Trump administration, after former White [...]

Former US president Donald Trump alerted the Georgia court overseeing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ 2020 election interference case on Thursday that he may seek to remove the case from state to federal court. Trump previously pleaded not guilty to 13 state criminal charges in the same case. Mark Meadows and four of Trump’s co-defendants [...]

The India Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that no coercive actions should be taken against the four members of the Editors Guild of India over formal complaints, known in India as first information report (FIR), filed by Manipur Police accusing the guild of promoting enmity between different groups, defamation and criminal conspiracy—among other charges. Manipur [...]