The G7 Foreign Ministers issued a statement on Tuesday condemning North Korea’s launch on October 31 of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), which landed in the sea. The United Nations also expressed concern over the missile launch and the potential threat it poses to “regional stability.” The G7 statement condemned the missile launch “in the [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday recognized Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the Russian election watchdog Golos (“Voice”), as a prisoner of conscience. Melkonyants was arrested on August 17, 2023, shortly before the start of federal and local elections and the 2024 presidential campaign. He was charged with “organizing the activities of an undesirable organization” and could face [...]

The UK House of Commons began its first reading on Tuesday of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill which aims to restrict the legal age to purchase tobacco each year to create the “first smoke-free generation”. The bill was proposed under former prime minister Rishi Sunak’s government, and advanced by Parliament in April 2024. The 2023 [...]

Human rights organizations sounded the alarm on Tuesday over the deteriorating health of Chinese legal scholar and human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong, who has been on a hunger strike for nearly a month to protest his ongoing ill-treatment in detention. Xu, a key figure in China’s New Citizens’ Movement, has been held since February 2020, [...]

India’s Delhi High Court on Tuesday lifted the ban on Salman Rushdie’s novel ‘The Satanic Verses” due to the government’s failure to promulgate the ban in 1988. The controversial novel is especially known for being considered blasphemous by Muslims. The petitioner challenged the ban, reportedly imposed on October 5, 1988, as unconstitutional and requested the [...]

Gershon Baskin, a prominent Israeli peace negotiator who is currently conducting back-channel negotiations between Hamas and Israel to bring an end to the current offensive in Gaza, spoke to JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas about the complex obstacles preventing a ceasefire amid the conflict’s expansion into Lebanon and Iran, his unique [...]

Amnesty International condemned Lebanon’s military courts on Tuesday for failure to hold accountable the security forces officers accused in the death in custody of Syrian refugee Bashar Abd Saud. Bashar Abd Saud, 30, was arrested on August 30, 2022, by Lebanon’s State Security agency on accusations of possessing a counterfeit $50 bill. A day later, [...]

Amnesty International (AI) called on the Mozambican government Wednesday to immediately cease its violent crackdown on civil rights ahead of a significant opposition march scheduled for November 7 in Maputo. This call comes in the wake of escalating unrest following the October 9 elections, which have been marred by allegations of fraud and brutal police [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and 16 other organizations urged the European Union on Wednesday to confront Azerbaijan’s government on human rights abuses during the upcoming COP29 climate conference. The organizations call for EU leaders to help end the increasing politically motivated arrests, detainments, and restrictions on free speech in Azerbaijan. The joint statement was released [...]

In the latest in a series of decrees, Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban have banned women from hearing other women’s voices. The Telegraph reported that the minister for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice, Khalid Hanafi, said: “Even when an adult female prays and another female passes by, she must not pray loudly enough for [...]