UN Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor condemned on Monday the nearly decade-long detention of former Delhi University professor and human rights activist GN Saibaba, who was arrested back in 2014 over his suspected links with the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist). Lawlor called upon Indian authorities to release Saibaba from detention, calling his continued detention [...]

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) signaled on Monday that it had rejected a proposal by Niger’s military junta to hold elections within three years, raising the political tensions which have lingered since the country’s July coup. A delegation from ECOWAS, West Africa’s main regional bloc, arrived Saturday in Niamey to discuss diplomatic paths [...]

The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal refused university student Lui Sai Yu’s appeal for a one-third prison sentence reduction on Tuesday, despite him having pleaded guilty to violating the National Security Law. A one-third prison sentence reduction is typically granted to individuals that plead guilty in Hong Kong. The District Court of Hong Kong [...]

A Georgia judge set former US President Donald Trump’s bond at $200,000 Monday in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ election interference case. Trump announced Monday that he planned to turn himself in Thursday for booking in the Fulton County Jail. In Judge Scott McAfee stipulated in the bond order that if Trump makes threats [...]

Former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra returned to Thailand after fifteen years of exile on Tuesday. Following his arrival, Thaksin was escorted to Thailand’s Supreme Court and sentenced to eight years imprisonment for corruption. Prior to landing in Bangkok, Thaksin issued a statement via social media announcing his return to Thailand. He requested “permission [...]

The UK Government plans to give judges new powers to compel convicted criminals to attend their sentencing hearings, according to a post from Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Alex Chalk. This comes after the sentencing of serial killer Lucy Letby, who refused to attend her sentencing, with remarks by Justice James Goss instead being projected [...]

Indian authorities on Saturday barred access to The Kashmir Walla, one of the last surviving independent news outlets operating within the volatile region of Indian-administered Kashmir. This action, undertaken without prior notice, has been deemed a “deadly blow” by the news portal, highlighting an escalating crackdown on press freedom since the region’s autonomy was revoked [...]

A federal court in Georgia blocked a state ban on Sunday that banned gender-affirming care for transgender youth, finding the law is likely unconstitutional. The law, SB 140, prohibits institutions from providing “sex reassignment surgeries, or any other surgical procedures, that are performed for the purpose of altering primary or secondary sexual characteristics,” in minors. [...]

Marjorie Cohn is a professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California. She has authored publications arguing against the legality of the 2003 US military intervention in Iraq as well as the US-led NATO interventions into Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia. Professor Cohn is also a national board member of Assange [...]

The London Metropolitan Police announced Monday that they will not be taking further action into an investigation over whether an official from King Charles’s charity The Prince’s Foundation offered a Saudi citizen honours in exchange for a donation. In its statement, the Metropolitan Police said: A file was passed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) [...]