The Bar Council of Delhi suspended Shakeel Khan from legal practice for eight weeks on Monday for committing professional misconduct by posting his mobile number on public walls. The Council’s preliminary inquiry revealed that Khan painted his mobile number on various public walls throughout South Delhi, advertising himself as a specialist in divorce matters. Khan [...]

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy appeared for a hearing Monday to face several charges related to corruption while he was in office, marking the first time a former leader has faced criminal charges in the country. The hearing was brief, and the judge agreed to a continuance because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The most prominent [...]

Russia’s media censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, opened a case against Google Monday for failing to remove banned content from its search results. According to the agency, Google has failed to remove up to 30 percent of prohibited content from its searches. This “dangerous content” includes extremist, pornographic, and suicide-related information. Russian law requires Google and other [...]

Three Hong Kong pro-democracy activists pleaded guilty Monday for their involvement in the 2019 anti-government protests. Joshua Wong, Ivan Lam and Agnes Chow pleaded guilty just before Wong and Lam were scheduled to go on trial. Chow, who had pleaded guilty before Wong and Lam, posted on her Facebook page, “If I am sentenced to [...]

The US Department of Justice Friday scheduled three more executions of federal prison inmates during the lame-duck period before President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated on January 20, adding to two previously scheduled for December that have not yet taken place. Since US Attorney-General William Barr announced the resumption of federal executions this past July after [...]

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) said Friday that they have filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump and his campaign on behalf of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and three Detroit residents. The suit challenges Trump and his campaign’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Michigan by [...]

The US withdrew from the Treaty on Open Skies Sunday. The withdrawal only made official a May announcement from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over a planned US exit from the treaty. In the May announcement, Pompeo cited Russia’s failure to comply with the treaty as the reason for the planned exit. Pompeo said that [...]

Thousands of French people took to the streets on Saturday to protest pending legislation that aims at protecting police officers and increasing public surveillance. The legislation, dubbed as the “Global Security Act,” is a comprehensive security law that is supported by MPs from the governing party. The draft contains numerous stringent provisions, amongst which Article [...]

Three UN Special Rapporteurs “expressed alarm” Friday at reports that approximately 50 prisoners “convicted of terrorism-related crimes in Iraq” would be executed on Monday. This planned mass execution is not the first occurrence. Last month 21 prisoners on death row at Nasiriyah central prison were executed. On November 16 an additional 21 prisoners were executed. [...]

Human rights group Vesna-96 said Sunday that more than 200 people have been arrested by the Belarus police during crackdowns on protests following the re-election of President Aleksander Lukashenko in August. Elections in Belarus have been condemned by both citizens of the country and international human rights groups since 2004, with opposition leaders often being [...]