Three local and foreign human rights organizations reported Tuesday that attacks on rights defenders and civil society organizations in Venezuela have increased by 157% since 2019. The Human Rights Office of the Archdiocese of Caracas, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, and COFAVIC, a human rights non-governmental organization (NGO), published the report. [...]
Myanmar’s Ministry of Transport and Communication (MoTC) on Wednesday directed telecom companies to temporarily block access to popular social media service Facebook in the country in order to ensure “stability” and prevent misunderstanding amongst the citizens from the “spreading fake news and misinformation” after the junta’s coup d’état earlier this week. Along with Facebook, access [...]
The Belgrade higher court on Tuesday found Bosnian Serb Milorad Jovanovic guilty of torturing prisoners while working as a police officer during the Bosnian War. He was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison. The charges stem from an incident in 1992 where Javinovic and his superior officers forcibly removed non-Serb civilians from their [...]
The US Supreme Court released an order on Wednesday granting the Biden administration’s request to remove oral arguments for challenges on now-defunct Trump administration immigration policies. The Supreme Court’s order separately granted a writ of certiorari in a natural-gas pipeline case. The removed cases, Mayorkas v. Innovation Law Lab and Biden v. Sierra Club, are [...]
The White House announced Thursday that President Joe Biden would sign an executive order to dramatically increase refugee admissions to the US for the first fiscal year of the Biden administration, marking a clear departure from the Trump administration’s refugee policies. The new executive order is expected to broadly reform current US refugee policy. Among [...]
Microsoft President Brad Smith expressed the company’s support Wednesday for the Australian House of Representatives’ proposal requiring various technology companies to share revenue with Australian news organizations. The legislation proposed last December in Parliament seeks to remunerate Australian news organizations that publish original content spread on digital platforms like Google and Facebook. Proponents of the [...]
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday dismissed a case brought by Qatar against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for racial discrimination. The UAE filed a preliminary objection for lack of jurisdiction in response to the case brought by Qatar. Qatar had claimed “indirect discrimination” and that the measures adopted by the UAE including [...]
Uighur women detained in Chinese “re-education” camps in Xinjiang have been systematically raped, abused and tortured, according to a detailed report by the BBC Wednesday. The report told the stories of women who were held, tortured and abused in the Xinjiang “re-education” camps. One of the women who was held for nine months in Xinjiang, [...]
The Myanmar police filed formal charges against the former head of government, Aung San Suu Kyi, Wednesday for violating import and export laws. She is also being charged for possession of 10 hand-held radios found by the military at her residence in Naypyidaw. The police allege that these communication devices were illegally imported and used [...]
Technology company Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News Thursday for broadcasting false claims about the 2020 presidential election. The 276-page complaint alleges that Fox News, following the lead of pro-Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, “joined the conspiracy to defame and disparage Smartmatic and its election technology and software.” The lawsuit [...]
