On January 23, 2021, Chief Petty Officer Tony DeDolph of the U.S. Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) was sentenced to ten years in prison for the involuntary manslaughter of Staff Sergeant Logan Melgar of the U.S. Army Green Berets. DeDolph, “pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit assault, involuntary manslaughter, hazing, and obstruction of justice,” [...]
Egyptian authorities Saturday released a journalist working for Qatar’s Al Jazeera television network who had been held in pre-trial detention for more than four years. Mahmoud Hussein, a video editor, was arrested in 2016 over accusations of attempting to overthrow the country’s government and being a member of the banned political party, Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt’s Ministry [...]
The US Senate on Tuesday voted 56-44 to proceed with the impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump, finding jurisdiction under the US Constitution. Lead impeachment manager Representative Jamie Raskin opened the day with a video depicting events from the January 6 storming of the US Capitol. The video began with Trump speaking at a rally [...]
The government of Colombia and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees announced Monday that Colombia would provide the 1.7 million displaced Venezuelans in Colombia with a new form of legal status, providing them with essential basic security while living in Colombia as refugees. The new initiative offers 10-year temporary status to displaced Venezuelans living in [...]
The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal denied pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai’s request for bail on Tuesday. Lai was arrested in August under the controversial National Security Law (NSL) and charged with fraud and “collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security.” The court granted and subsequently revoked Lai’s bail [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a brief notice of dismissal Monday, dropping a lawsuit to block SB 822, California’s net neutrality law. SB 822 was designed to restore the net neutrality protections afforded by the Open Internet Order, an Obama-era order that was repealed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under former then-president Donald [...]
The US State Department announced Monday that the US will “reengage immediately and robustly” with the UN Human Rights Council, citing direct instruction from President Joe Biden. The decision comes nearly three years after the Trump administration withdrew the US from the Council in 2018. “The Biden administration has recommitted the United States to a [...]
Haiti President Jovenel Moïse on Sunday announced the arrest of 23 people accused of attempting a coup to overthrow his government and assassinate him. The arrestees include a former presidential candidate, a high-ranking police inspector and a judge of the Supreme Court. Moïse made the announcement on the alleged coup d’état in a Facebook Live [...]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his first court appearance since May on Monday to enter a plea of not guilty to an indictment alleging corruption and misconduct. The case began with a police investigation in 2016, and an indictment was issued in 2019. Netanyahu faces a wide array of corruption charges arising from separate investigations. The charges [...]
US House impeachment managers filed a pre-trial brief on Monday challenging former president Donald Trump’s claims that his second impeachment trial is unconstitutional and that it was his speech that incited the Capitol attacks on January 6. The pre-trial brief is directly in response to the answer Trump filed arguing against his second impeachment. In [...]
