Amnesty International expressed concerns on Tuesday about the recent approval by the Peruvian Congress of an amendment to Law 27692, which established the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI). The organization cited potential restrictions on human rights as a key issue and warned that the reform threatens Peru’s civil society by limiting human rights activism [...]

A federal judge for the Southern District Court of New York found on Wednesday that the court does not have the proper jurisdiction to hear the merits of detained student activist Mahmoud Khalil’s petition regarding his arrest by ICE agents, moving the case to the District of New Jersey where Khalil’s challenge to his arrest, [...]

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed House Bill 1489 on Tuesday, making Arkansas the fifth state to permit executions by use of nitrogen gas. The signing of this legislation coincides with Louisiana’s first execution by this method of Jessie Hoffman the same day. Titled “An Act to Amend the Method of Execution to Include Nitrogen [...]

A US federal judge enjoined the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) shutdown of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Tuesday, ordering a halt to dismantling efforts, a reinstatement of employee electronic systems, and restored access to the agency’s headquarters. The District Court of Maryland ruled in an accompanying memorandum opinion that DOGE and director [...]

China labor activist Wang Jianbing was released from prison on Tuesday after serving a three-and-a-half-year sentence. Wang was convicted in 2021 after being found guilty of “inciting subversion of state power,” which is an offense under Article 105 paragraph 2 of the Criminal Law of the People’s Republic of China. Wang was arrested and tried [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday against Türkiye for violations of the right to fair trial following the failure of domestic courts to provide adequate reasons for the applicant’s conviction of membership in an armed terrorist organization. The court found that the trial court of İzmir failed to provide adequate reasons [...]

A US federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely blocked the implementation of President Donald Trump’s executive order effectively barring transgender people from serving openly in the military, a stark blow to the administration’s efforts to curb transgender rights. US District Judge Ana Reyes found the military ban is “soaked in animus and dripping with pretext. Its [...]

In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court refused to grant a stay to block Louisiana’s execution of an inmate by use of nitrogen gas. 46-year-old Jessie Hoffman Jr. became the first person ever to be executed in the state through this method on Tuesday evening . The Louisiana State Penitentiary scheduled Jessie Hoffman’s execution by nitrogen gas [...]

Human rights violations have persisted in Niger since the 2023 military coup, an Amnesty International report revealed on Tuesday, calling for Nigerien military regime to be held accountable. The report documents human rights abuses Nigerien authorities have committed since the military coup in July 2023. It details the widespread use of arbitrary detention, press censorship, [...]

The defense ministers of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia announced on Tuesday that they have unanimously recommended their countries’ withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention due to heightened security risks amid escalating tensions with Russia.  The statement read: We believe that in the current security environment it is paramount to provide our defence forces flexibility and [...]