A US federal grand jury in Wisconsin indicted Judge Hannah Dugan on Tuesday for obstructing immigration agents. Dugan was arrested last month and is accused of obstructing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and concealing Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, the foreign national ICE agents sought to apprehend in her courtroom. Dugan, who was suspended following her arrest, [...]
The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on May 15 regarding the federal government’s request to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship—the constitutional guarantee that virtually all individuals born on US soil automatically become citizens. Oral arguments will be for three consolidated cases: Trump v. CASA, Inc., Trump v. Washington and [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged newly-elected Pope Leo XIV to initiate an immediate review of the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with the Chinese government. The Vatican-China agreement was signed between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China in 2018, aiming to bridge decades of division between state-sanctioned churches and underground Catholic communities [...]
A US federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled on Tuesday that President Donald Trump and his administration may use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 (AEA) to deport Venezuelan citizens accused of gang membership as long as the government offers “sufficient notice and due process.” Judge Stephanie Haines ruled that the government must give “greater notice” [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed concern Tuesday regarding the number of deportations of individuals from the US. According to Türk, the deportations raise “serious concerns regarding a wide array of rights … rights to due process, to be protected from arbitrary detention, to equality before the law, to be protected from [...]
The chair of the Bulgarian National Assembly on Tuesday rejected President Rumen Radev’s proposal for a referendum on Bulgaria’s adoption of the euro as national currency. As reported by the Bulgarian News Agency, the proposal for a referendum did not comply with several legislative instruments. Nataliya Kiselova, chair of the National Assembly, rejected the proposal [...]
A coalition of 20 Democratic state attorneys general filed two federal lawsuits on Tuesday, claiming that US President Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to withhold billions of dollars in transportation and disaster-relief funds unless states agree to certain immigration enforcement actions. In the transportation funding complaint, the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) and DOT [...]
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called upon Venezuelan authorities on Tuesday to release all people arbitrarily detained since the 2024 presidential elections. In a statement published by the OHCHR, High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk urged Venezuelan authorities “to release immediately all those arbitrarily detained, and to [...]
Amnesty International (AI) said in a press release on Tuesday that Kenyan women working as domestic laborers in Saudi Arabia face extreme exploitation amounting to slavery and human trafficking The press release summarizes a 50-page report AI released the previous day, detailing the inhumane treatment of the women by their employers. Domestic workers are forced [...]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed serious concern on Monday over Egypt’s newly approved draft Code of Criminal Procedure, citing potential violations of international human rights laws. The draft law was recently passed by Egypt’s House of Representatives and currently awaits President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s approval. The new law [...]
