Israel Education Minister Yoav Galant announced Sunday that he is banning groups that call Israel an “apartheid state” from lecturing in schools. The ban is said to be in response to Israeli human rights group B’Tselem. According to B’Tselem, Israel’s control over Palestinian territories is “inextricably bound up in human rights violations.” The group released [...]

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on the Cuban Ministry of Interior and the Minister of Interior, Lazaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, for alleged human rights abuses on Friday. Under Executive Order 13818, the Treasury Secretary has the authority to impose sanctions. The Treasury Department has also recently imposed [...]

Russian authorities on Sunday arrested opposition leader Aleksei Navalny on his arrival at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. Navalny was traveling from Berlin where he spent the past five months recovering from a fatal nerve-agent attack that he believes was carried out by Kremlin agents to quash his resistance movement. Amnesty International issued a statement calling for [...]

All federal prisons in the US have been put on lockdown ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 21. The lockdown, announced at midnight on Saturday, was in response to “current events,” according to a statement by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The decision was a precautionary one and not in response to any [...]

Alabama’s policy requiring that transgender people show proof of sex reassignment surgery in order to change the sex designation on their driver’s license was found to be unconstitutional, courts ruled Friday. Under the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) Policy Order 63, transgender individuals could only get a license that accurately reflected their gender after they [...]

Hong Kong’s Civil Service Bureau released a notice on Friday, demanding that all civil servants sign a document pledging their loyalty to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR). The notice is the latest development in Hong Kong’s ongoing crackdown on opposition, since the promulgation of its national security [...]

The Poland Ministry of Justice on Thursday announced the introduction of the “freedom of speech protection” bill to stop social media platforms from deleting content posted by Polish users or blocking the users if they do not break any Polish laws. The Minister of Justice, Zbigniew Ziobro said: Today, social networking sites themselves decide about [...]

The Supreme Court of South Korea on Thursday upheld a 20-year prison sentence for former President Park Guen-hye who was convicted on charges of abuse of power, bribery and coercion in 2018. The rejection of Park’s appeal exhausts all legal remedies, leaving open only the option of a special presidential pardon by incumbent President Moon [...]

The National Rifle Association (NRA) announced Friday in a press release that it filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will reincorporate in Texas. The association claims that the move is a part of strategic maneuvering for its betterment. This kind of maneuvering is legally permitted when an organization files Chapter 11 bankruptcy. According to the press release, the [...]

Amazon.com, Inc. was hit with a nationwide class action lawsuit Thursday in the District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging collusion and illegal price-fixing of e-books with some publishers. The plaintiffs are represented by law firm Hagens Berman that brought a similar case against Apple Inc. in 2011 and is a frequent whistleblower on e-book [...]