A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud issued a six-week notice to the Union Government and the Ministry of Defence on Monday to respond to a writ petition filed by the State of Nagaland seeking approval to prosecute 30 Indian Army personnel implicated in the deaths of [...]

The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy published in June an extensive report concluding that there is strong evidence to suggest that all sides of the 2020-2022 Tigray war committed war crimes – and that Ethiopian and allied forces committed crimes against humanity and acts of genocide against the Tigrayan people. The 80,000 word [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit that sought to compel the Biden administration to withdraw military, diplomatic, and financial support from Israel on Monday. The court ruled that the case was “not justiciable under the political question doctrine.” This doctrine, based on the separation of powers [...]

Irish police arrested 19 people during an anti-immigration protest in Dublin on Monday. 15 of the protesters, 13 men and two women, later appeared at the Criminal Courts of Justice for a special sitting and were charged with public order offences under Section 6 and Section 8 of the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994. [...]

Albania’s Ministry of Justice allowed Monday the temporary release of jailed politician Fredi Beleri to travel to Strasbourg, France and take oath as a member of the European Parliament after he won a seat in the European elections held in June. Local media reported that Albania’s Ministry of Justice and General Directorate of Prisons granted [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law Monday prohibiting schools from informing parents when students change their pronouns in school. The Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today’s Youth (SAFETY) Act also imposes responsibilities on the State Department of Education to develop resources to “increase support for LGBTQ pupils.” According to the California legislature’s LGBTQ [...]

The Council of the European Union sanctioned extremist Israeli settlers and violent activists blocking aid efforts to Gaza under the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime on Monday. The Council found five Israeli individuals who settled in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem regions and three entities responsible for systematic human rights abuses against Palestinians. [...]

Amnesty International criticised the French government’s decision to ban women athletes representing France at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games from wearing headscarves in a report released Tuesday. The report stated that the prohibition breaches international human rights laws and said the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) response to calls for lifting the ban was [...]

Thousands of lawyers in the Indian capital city of Delhi protested against provisions of three new criminal laws on Monday. The lawyers said the new criminal laws are draconian and in opposition to litigants’ interests. The protest is primarily a response to The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2023, also known as the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita [...]

A Moscow court on Monday sentenced Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen in absentia to eight years in prison under Article 207.3 of the Russian Criminal Code over charges of spreading false information on Russian armed forces. The court also banned Gessen from managing online resources for four years. Russia issued an arrest warrant in December 2023 [...]