UN human rights experts raised concerns Wednesday regarding the treatment of journalist Jose Ruben Zamora, who has been imprisoned in Guatemala for nearly two years, claiming that Zamora is being held in potentially life-threatening and inhumane conditions that could amount to torture. The experts, including the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, [...]

A group of five British Columbia, Canada police officers accused of misconduct after allegedly sharing racist and inappropriate memes within a WhatsApp group chat initiated a challenge Wednesday against the BC Attorney General, according to local media. The officers argue that the investigative powers established under the province’s Police Act violate privacy rights under Section [...]

The new evaluation report published on Wednesday from the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) urges Italy to adopt and implement measures promoting integrity and combating corruption within top executive functions (PTEFs) and law enforcement agencies. GRECO monitors member states’ compliance with anti-corruption standards set by the Council of Europe. GRECO conducts [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the leaders of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Wednesday to immediately investigate and cease their personnel from ill-treating and torturing, summarily executing and mutilating the dead bodies of individuals in their custody. According to HRW, one image and eight videos uploaded onto social media [...]

Russia’s Investigative Committee opened a fraud case on Thursday against former deputy defense minister Pavel Popov. On the same day, the Garrison Military Court ordered him held until October 29 in a decision by Judge Andrey Tolkachevo. According to Svetlana Petrenko, a representative of the Investigative Committee, while Popov was in charge of the military-themed [...]

The interim government of Bangladesh, led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, on Wednesday lifted a ban on Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its affiliated organization, Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir. Earlier this month, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s administration enforced a ban on Jamaat-e-Islami, citing allegations of destructive activities, killings, and terrorist activities during the quota [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to reinstate the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) student loan relief initiative by President Joe Biden. The decision keeps a lower court’s injunction in place, raising uncertainty for millions of borrowers. The SAVE plan had been designed as a more targeted approach to student debt relief to [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday revived a libel lawsuit filed by the former governor of Alaska and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin against the New York Times (NYT). In 2022, US District Court Judge Jed Rakoff dismissed the case during jury deliberations. He stated that after hearing all available [...]

Former Hong Kong district councilor Ng Kin-wai said on Tuesday that he was not remorseful for participating in an alleged conspiracy to subvert state power by controlling the 2020 Legislative Council election, according to local media. Ng claimed that he participated in the alleged conspiracy without being aware of its illegality and only discovered the [...]

As the second anniversary of the UN’s critical report on Xinjiang approaches, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday: “The Chinese government persists in committing crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang while denying repression there.” Maya Wang, HRW’s associate China director, emphasized the necessity of a forceful response from the UN and its [...]