A draft bill proposed by the Maltese government that aims to regulate online news could inhibit freedom of speech, argued protesters Sunday. At the protest, which was organized by the opposition party, opposition leader Simon Busuttil said that the bill would be “the beginning of the end of freedom of expression on the internet.” The [...]

The New Zealand High Court ruled on Monday that Kim Dotcom , the founder of content-sharing site Megaupload.com, is eligible for extradition to the US on fraud offenses. Dotcom and his alleged co-conspirators are facing numerous charges after US authorities seized Megaupload.com in 2012 , claiming that the site cost copyright holders at least $500 [...]

Egypt’s Court of Cassation , the nation’s highest court, on Monday upheld the death penalty for 10 men involved in the Port Said Stadium Riot in which more than 70 individuals were killed after a soccer game in 2012. Supporters of the winning team had stormed the field, stabbing fans of the rival team and [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday that Moroccan authorities have been on a two-year campaign to obstruct Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) , the country’s largest independent human rights organization. According to HRW, the authorities have blocked a total of 125 AMDH conferences, meetings and other public and private events since 2014 by either [...]

Amnesty International (AI) on Sundayurged the Israeli Supreme Court to repeal a 2003 law that bans many Palestinians from entering the country, including those who are seeking reunification with their families. The Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law was originally enacted as a temporary one-year order but has been renewed annually. In addition to urging [...]

The trial of 47 suspects accused of attempting to assassinate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on July 15 during a failed military coup began Monday. The trial will be held in Mugla, in the southwestern corner of Turkey. Before the coup attempt had been effectively quashed, Erdoğan promised that “the ring leader who plotted all [...]

The newly-inaugurated President of The Gambia promised Saturday to end human rights violations in his country and ordered the release of 171 inmates who had been detained without a trial. President Adama Barrow’s inauguruation speech restated the emphasis he will place on human rights and the rule of law in the small west-African nation. Barrow’s [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday issued a call to Philippine authorities to drop political charges against Senator Leila de Lima, who has spoken against President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. The charges brought against de Lima, as well as her driver and several unnamed individuals, are for violation of section 5 of the Dangerous [...]

US Republican senators announced on Sunday that they are planning to introduce a bill further sanctioning Iran for testing ballistic missiles and attempting to “destabilize” the Middle East. Tehran recently increased international tensions after testing ballistic missiles with the inscription “Death to Israel”. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called Iran “a bad actor in the greatest [...]

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced on Sunday that Iraqi forces, backed by the US, have begun their offensive push into the western sector of the city of Mosul, currently occupied by the Islamic State (IS). IS forces have been confined to the region since last year’s offensive that forced the IS to abandon the [...]