A judicial commission probing corruption under former South African president Jacob Zuma began its public hearings Monday. Zuma resigned last February and was charged with corruption in March. Zuma’s fall began with the State of Capture Report , tasked with investigating the upper levels of the Zuma administration for corruption. Specifically, the former president stands accused [...]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi signed a cybersecurity law Saturday that allows the government broad authority to block websites while setting jail sentences and jail fines for violations. Amnesty International described the new law as giving “the state near-total control over print, online and broadcast media.” There is another cybersecurity law pending before the president, [...]
A veterans advocacy group brought a federal lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Thursday related to unofficial or undisclosed meetings held at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort by a group focused on crafting Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) policy. The complaint alleges that Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter, attorney Marck [...]
A federal court on Wednesday ruled that a lawsuit challenging Ohio’s congressional map as unconstitutional can move forward. The lawsuit was filed in May by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of five civic engagement groups and voters from each congressional district in the state. The plaintiffs allege that Ohio’s congressional map violates the [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday upheld a district court’s decision to dismiss a group of University of Texas at Austin professors’ challenge to a Texas law permitting the concealed carry of handguns on campuses as well as a University-specific policy that prohibited professors from banning weapons in their classrooms. [...]
Amnesty International said Thursday that the Honorary Chair of Amnesty International Turkey, Taner Kilic, has been released after 14 months in prison. Amnesty’s Secretary General Kumi Naidoo said that Kilic was released and has returned to his family. Naidoo also called for the release of other human rights advocates whom Naidoo alleges are being detained on [...]
Polish President Andrzej Duda on Thursday vetoed a European Parliament reform that would increase the mandatory threshold of the vote needed to become a party in the European Parliament for the 2024 European Parliament election. Under the proposed reform countries with 26 representatives would require parties to win at least 5 percent of the national vote in [...]
The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the National Marine Fisheries Service that seeks to protect the waters where Southern Resident killer whales live. Previously, the Center for Biological Diversity has petitioned for the protection of these waters, and the Fisheries Service has agreed that this was necessary. However, the Fisheries [...]
A US District Judge in Montana ruled Wednesday that the US State Department must conduct a more thorough environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline project, ordering the $8 billion project’s construction to come to an immediate halt. An environmental review was initially published for the pipeline’s original plans, which stretched from Canada through Nebraska. [...]
Malaysia’s parliament on Thursday repealed a controversial law that set fines for “fake news.” The law was introduced in April by the administration of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. The previous administration called snap elections in May shortly after passing the “fake news law” and was subsequently defeated. In the aftermath of the [...]
