The İstanbul 33rd Criminal Court of First Instance Tuesday fined Mohammed Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, son of Somalia’s president, 27,300 Turkish lira over causing death by negligence, according to state media Anadolu Agency. Mohamud negligently caused the death of Yunus Emre Göçer, a motorcycle courier, on November 30, 2023 when the car he drove collided with [...]

The Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City confirmed the death of transgender woman activist and politician Samantha Gómez Fonseca on Monday from gunshot wounds. According to Yaaj, an LGBTQ+ human rights organization in Mexico, Samantha’s killing was part of recent violence against trans women in the country. Transgender activist Miriam Nohemí Ríos also died in a [...]

“So far from it being unjust to punish him, it would be unjust if his wrongs were allowed to go unpunished.” Nuremberg Tribunal (1946) At the beginning of 2024, former President Donald J. Trump’s most conspicuously unsupportable legal claim has been his personal immunity from criminal prosecution. With this claim, Mr. Trump and his lead [...]

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called on Alabama state authorities Tuesday to cancel the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith, which is scheduled to take place next week by nitrogen hypoxia. Türk reemphasized human rights concerns regarding the potential consequences of the untested execution method. According to the statement, execution by nitrogen [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found Lithuania liable on Tuesday for assisting the US with the torture of a man from Saudi Arabia at Detention Site Violet, a secret CIA prison in Lithuania, in 2005.  The court found that Lithuania violated several provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights against the applicant [...]

Ecuador reported Monday that a recent operation at Esmeraldas No. 2 Detention Center revealed the escape of 48 individuals, with one fatality and five recaptures, prompting an investigation by the National Service for Comprehensive Attention to Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI). SNAI issued an official announcement regarding an operation at the Esmeraldas [...]

US Navy SEALs boarded a vessel and seized Iranian-manufactured missile components destined for Houthi rebel forces in Yemen during a flag verification mission in the Arabian Sea near the coast of Somalia, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Tuesday, claiming the components were being transported in violation of a UN Security Council arms embargo. The [...]

The Polish Ministry of Infrastructure announced Tuesday that protests along the Polish and Ukrainian borders carried out by Polish truckers have come to a temporary halt until March 1 due to an agreement facilitated by Minister of Infrastructure Dariusz Klimcza. Protests began November 6, 2023, due to Polish truckers’ insistence that the European Union reinstate [...]

A local court in India approved Monday the bail for Sukhpal Singh Khaira, a prominent figure in the Indian National Congress, which is India’s largest opposition party. Khaira is an accused in a criminal intimidation case related to narcotic substances smuggling from 2015. Khaira, a Congress MLA from the Bhulath constituency in Punjab state, was [...]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced Monday that North Korea will no longer pursue reconciliation with South Korea and called for a constitutional change to identify South Korea as the “number one hostile state,” according to the state-controlled Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Kim claimed that reconciliation between the two states is not possible [...]