UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Egypt on Tuesday to end its controversial “rotation” practice, which allows authorities to arbitrarily extend prison sentences beyond their maximum term. Rotation is typically used against perceived political opponents, such as activists, protestors, lawyers, and journalists, and involves charging a prisoner with a new offense when they are [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Monday issued a statement urging Hong Kong authorities to ensure that journalists can work freely, and called for the renewal of a Bloomberg reporter’s work visa. Bloomberg reporter Rebecca Wilkins announced that “after six years of reporting in Hong Kong,” her visa was denied. The Foreign Correspondents’ Club [...]
UN experts on Monday called for the immediate and unconditional release of a Malian civil society activist who has been detained since November 2023 despite a court issuing an order for his release. Clément Mamadou Dembélé was originally jailed for allegedly making death threats against the transitional president and his family. In April, a court [...]
A US federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Tuesday that saw President Donald Trump suing every federal judge in Maryland over orders blocking the immediate deportation of migrants contesting removal. Trump filed the suit on Monday in response to an order written by Maryland Chief District Judge George L. Russell III in May. The order [...]
In a press release on Monday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) denounced the killing of five members of the press in an Israeli airstrike at Southern Gaza’s Nasser Hospital. The CPJ called for the international community to prevent further unlawful attacks on journalists with impunity. CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah condemned the military action. [...]
X Corp. and X.AI LLC filed a federal lawsuit on Monday alleging that Apple and OpenAI’s exclusive ChatGPT integration violates federal competition law. Plaintiffs accused the two companies of violating antitrust laws by establishing effective monopolies in their respective markets. The lawsuit stated that Apple currently owns a 65 percent US market share for smartphones, [...]
Amnesty International on Tuesday condemned the public caning of two men in Indonesia’s Aceh province after they were convicted of same-sex relations under Islamic criminal law. Aceh, located on the northern tip of Sumatra island, is Indonesia’s only province with special autonomy to enforce qanun jinayat, a set of bylaws introduced in 2015 that criminalize [...]
The Israeli military’s extensive destruction of civilian property and agricultural land across southern Lebanon must be investigated as war crimes, Amnesty International said in a new research briefing released on Tuesday. The report, entitled “Nowhere to Return: Israel’s Extensive Destruction of Southern Lebanon,” documents the demolition of more than 10,000 civilian structures between October 2024 [...]
US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Monday establishing a “specialized unit” of the National Guard to address crime in Washington, DC and other US cities “whenever the circumstances necessitate,” including “other cities where public safety and order has been lost.” The order enables US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to deploy the [...]
Kilmar Ábrego García, a Salvadorian national whose wrongful deportation earlier this year prompted multiple rebukes from federal courts, was taken into custody on Monday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at its Baltimore field office. The detention occurred despite several federal court orders directing the government to ensure his presence in the US while [...]
