US District Judge David Carter Wednesday ordered the release of emails exchanged between former President Donald Trump and his attorney Dr. John Eastman regarding the January 6 Capitol Attack. The US House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack originally subpoenaed the documents in January 2021. Eastman assisted Trump with legal and political strategies regarding [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Wednesday reported that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) attack on Iranian-Kurdish opposition group offices in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in September 2022 “struck towns and villages where the parties were not carrying out any military activity.” IRGC claimed responsibility for the attacks on the Iranian-Kurdish opposition group offices, referring [...]

Jen Robinson, human rights lawyer for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange,  told Australian reporters Wednesday Assange is in poor health for his coming legal proceedings. Assange faces extradition to the US where 18 counts of illegally obtaining, receiving and disclosing classified information await him. UK Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition in June. Assange is [...]

Amnesty International Wednesday condemned the Pulitzer Prize-winning Kashmiri photojournalist, Sanna Irshad Mattoo‘s arbitrary travel ban by the immigration authorities at the New Delhi airport in India. On October 18, Mattoo was barred from “traveling internationally despite holding a valid US visa and ticket” to the US to attend the award ceremony of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize [...]

Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday held a meeting with Russia’s Security Council to introduce martial law in four Russian-occupied territories it annexed following sham referendums in Ukraine last month. Martial law involves the temporary substitution of military authority for civilian rule and is usually invoked in times of war, rebellion, or natural disaster. Putin’s announcement [...]

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Tuesday shared its deep worrying concern about the Iranian security forces’ violent response against Mahsa Amini protesters and reports of arbitrary arrests. OHCHR reported that 23 children have been killed by live ammunition, metal pellets at close range and fatal beatings.  The protests in [...]

Iranian lawyers Tuesday collectively wrote a letter to the United Nations Special Rapporteur to take immediate action on the explosive shooting that occurred at Tehran’s Evin prison in Iran. They requested the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) seek information and special commitments from the Iranian government about the number of deaths, [...]

Congressman Mike Johnson (R-LA) Tuesday introduced the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act. The bill would prohibit any federal, state, local or private organization from using federal funds to “expose children under 10 years of age to sexually-oriented material.” Under the bill, certain depictions or descriptions of sexual activity or any topic involving gender identity [...]

Several citizens groups Tuesday sued the City of Buffalo, alleging their redistricting “failed to meet the basic requirements of the law.” The complaint states that the city of Buffalo engaged in “non-compliance and arbitrary process” in its redistricting, and that the Citizens Commission, elected officials charged with redistricting, violated both New York state law and the [...]

On September 16, 2022, Iran’s Basij Resistance Force, a volunteer paramilitary organization that operates under the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, arrested Mahsa Amini for her refusal to comply with the country’s headscarf requirement, an alleged breach of its public morality code. Reports surfaced that the Basij severely beat Amini for resisting an officer’s insults, after which Amini [...]