A Russian military court on Tuesday sentenced two Ukrainian activists to substantial jail time for the charge of conspiring to commit terror attacks. Oleg Sentsov, a filmmaker, and Aleksandr Kolchenko, an ecologist and antifascist activist, received 20 and 10 years in prison, respectively, for alleged arson attacks against pro-Russian groups during the Russian occupation of [...]

California lawmakers on Monday approved two bills intended to regulate drones. The Assembly voted 43-11 in favor of a bill that would make it a crime to fly a drone over private property without permission. The Senate voted 40-0 to approve a bill targeted a paparazzi that would make it a crime to use a [...]

El Salvador’s Supreme Court ruled Monday that the country’s street gangs and those who support them financially will now be classified as terrorist groups. The ruling was made as part of a denial of attempts to challenge the constitutionality of the El Salvador’s Special Law Against Terrorist Acts . The court defined terrorism as the [...]

A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday spoke against the execution of an Iraqi man and his two wives in the Kurdistan region. Human rights officials feared that the hanging could mark a move back towards greater use of the death penalty despite a 2008 “informal [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants François Crépeau on Tuesday urged the European Union (EU) to create a new human-rights-minded migration policy to empower migrants and solve the issue of human smuggling in the Eurozone. Crépeau said he believes that the EU has not been handling the current migration issues properly and [...]

UN Humanitarian Coordinator and Deputy Special Representative for the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) Aurélien A. Agbénonci on Monday strongly condemned an August 20 attack on humanitarian workers in the CAR city of Bambari. In the release, Agbénonci stated, “I…call on all belligerents to respect and protect humanitarian workers who [...]

Saudi Arabia’s flawed judicial system has resulted a surge of executions following unfair trials, Amnesty International (AI) reported Tuesday. According to AI, 175 people have been executed over the past 12 months with an average of one person put to death every two days. Said Boumedouha, Acting Director of the Middle East and North Africa [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday upheld a ruling against defendant Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, essentially granting the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) the power to regulate corporate cybersecurity. In 2012, the FTC filed suit against Wyndham in the US District Court for the District of Arizona , alleging unfair and deceptive [...]

Irina Bokova, the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) , on Monday condemned the destruction of Palmyra’s ancient temple of Baalshamin by Islamic State (IS) militants, labeling it a war crime. The site was demolished by the Daesh group one week after the killing of Professor Khaled al-Assaad, the archaeologist in [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday ordered the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization to post USD $10 million in bond or cash while they appeal a finding that they supported the militant attacks in Israel between 2002 and 2004. The February jury verdict [...]