The Indian state of Kerala’s high court ruled Friday that local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader PC George would not be granted anticipatory bail in a hate speech case, citing his repeated violations of bail conditions and the necessity of stricter legal consequences for such offenses. The ruling came after George made remarks during a [...]

The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the ongoing offensive by M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and urging the Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF), which supports the rebel group, to withdraw immediately from Congolese territory. According to the UN, fighting in the DRC has intensified since [...]

US Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys have asked a federal court in Texas to end a temporary pause on a case accusing Elon Musk’s tech company SpaceX of discriminating against immigrant job applicants. The DOJ’s motion to end the preliminary injunction — a temporary court order preventing one party from taking further legal action until [...]

Refugees International expressed concern Friday over the deteriorating conditions faced by Sudanese refugees in Egypt, urging immediate international intervention to safeguard their rights. The statement follows the publication of a report detailing the challenges Sudanese refugees face, particularly in light of Egypt’s new asylum law. Refugees International’s report, “No Model of Refuge,” notes the increasing [...]

Eight human rights organizations called on Kyrgyzstan authorities on Friday to take necessary measures for the safety of Makhabat Tazhibek Kyzy, an imprisoned human rights defender who has received death threats from a fellow prisoner. Tazhibek Kyzy is the director of the YouTube-based media outlet Tazhibek Kyzy, founded by her husband in 2020. The media [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday unanimously rejected the arguments of a group of Holocaust survivors demanding that Hungary pay reparations for confiscating their property during World War II. The court’s opinion in Republic of Hungary v. Simon was delivered by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who stated that foreign states are granted “presumptive immunity from suit [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists urged Ghanaian authorities Thursday to investigate the attack on five journalists who covered the elections in the southern Ashanti Region. The attack occurred at the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council while the journalists were covering electoral officers counting votes. It was reportedly triggered by the defeat of National Democratic Congress (NDC) [...]

The Taliban announced on Thursday that Afghanistan would no longer recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), stating that the country’s 2003 accession to the Rome Statute is declared to be legally void after ICC prosecutor Karim Khan sought arrest warrants for Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and the Chief Justice of Afghanistan [...]

Iran executed at least 975 people in 2024, marking a 17 percent increase from 2023, according to the seventeenth Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran released on Thursday. Jointly published by Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) and Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), the report said the figure was the highest recorded rate in [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on Israel Thursday to stop “suffocating the press in Gaza.” RSF detailed the numerous obstacles to free journalism that remain in Gaza one month after the ceasefire. Despite international support for the ceasefire, journalists in Gaza continue to die for their cause as they report on the dire situation in [...]