UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed alarm Friday over reports of summary executions in Khartoum North, Sudan, where fighters allied with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have allegedly killed civilians since regaining control of the area. The UN Human Rights Office verified at least 18 deaths, including one woman, in seven separate [...]
The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) on Friday called for further expansion of its nationwide protests against recent amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016 (PECA). The group organized the protest against the PECA amendment on January 27. Video footage on X (formerly Twitter) showed Pakistani journalists protesting by chaining themselves in [...]
Delegates of nine nations on Friday gathered to form the Hague Group and coordinate legal, diplomatic and economic measures against Israel’s violations of international law in the State of Palestine. These countries include Belize, Cuba, Namibia, Honduras, Senegal, South Africa, Colombia, Bolivia and Malaysia. The group in their inaugural joint statement affirmed their position to [...]
Libya’s Criminal Investigation Agency announced the rescue of over two hundred illegal immigrants in Al-Wahat district from a gang that tortured, abused and mistreated them on Friday. The rescued came from countries such as Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia, and were subject to horrific conditions, malnutrition, and sexual violence. According to the agency, twenty-five of the [...]
The Swiss Federal Criminal Court on Friday convicted oil company Trafigura, its former executive and two co-defendants for bribing an Angolan public official to obtain trade contracts. The trial level judgement, delivered by judges David Bouverat, Stephan Zenger and Maric Demont, found three of the defendants guilty of bribery, under article 322 of the Swiss [...]
The German parliament narrowly rejected a controversial immigration bill known as the “Influx Limitation Law” on Friday. A total of 349 members of parliament voted against the initiative, while 338 supported the draft, with five abstentions. The bill, proposed by Friedrich Merz, leader of the CDU/CSU opposition bloc, aims to reintroduce the words “and limitation” [...]
With Justin Trudeau set to resign as prime minister of Canada, and a federal election on the horizon, now is a crucial moment to reflect on Canada’s post-WWII leadership and its often-overlooked record under the lens of international law. Academic Noam Chomsky argued that if the Nuremberg Principles were applied, every post-WWII U.S. president would [...]
Part two of this series can be found here: Return of the Torture Monsters Part II: Remembering Abu Ghraib. Part three of this series can be found here: Return of the Torture Monsters Part III: Force Drift Across Administrations. Pete Hegseth, confirmed by the Senate on January 24 as US President Donald Trump’s Secretary of [...]
“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.” Cicero, The Laws During the coming year, the United States, in occasional concert with Israel, must confront expanding terrorist threats. Topping pertinent concerns in Washington and Jerusalem will be a sordid assortment of jihadi groups, some spawned by the al-Assad regime collapse in Syria and [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday that a federal statute requiring people to be 21 to purchase handguns from Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) conflicts with previous Supreme Court decisions and the Second Amendment. The plaintiffs, Caleb Reese and Emily Naquin, challenged the constitutionality of 18 USC 922 (b)(1) and (c)(1) on [...]
