The India Supreme Court heard a batch of petitions on Monday related to the ongoing ethnic violence in Manipur. Among the petitions were one from the Kuki tribe seeking protection from the Indian Army and one challenging the Manipur High Court’s direction to consider the inclusion of the Meitei community in the scheduled tribe list. [...]
The UK Government formally acknowledged on Tuesday that atrocities committed against the Yazidi people in 2014 by Daesh, commonly known as ISIS, constituted genocide. The UK government’s statement follows a January 2023 German Federal Court of Justice ruling which found a former Daesh fighter guilty of acts of genocide and crimes against humanity. The determination by the UK [...]
Myanmar’s ruling junta announced via state media MRTV on Tuesday a partial pardon of former leader Aung San Suu Kyi. As a result of the pardon, which impacted 5 of her 19 convictions, Suu Kyi’s 33-year prison sentence has been reduced by six years. According to a CNN source, the five impacted convictions include defamation, [...]
Myanmar state television MRTV reported on Monday that Myanmar’s ruling junta has postponed an election that it previously promised to hold in August this year. Instead, leader of the junta General Min Aung Hlaing extended the country’s state of emergency period for another six months, starting on August 1. The state of emergency was initially [...]
The Trump-aligned Save America Leadership political action committee (PAC) spent over $20 million on former President Donald Trump’s legal fees out of its total of about $30 million in spending according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings made public Monday. The filing comes as legal woes continue to mount for Trump. The filings reveal that [...]
The world’s attention has been rightly focused on Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine. But Russia is also fighting a war against Russian citizens who oppose the Ukraine war. In Russia’s war against its citizens, it is not using rockets as weapons but rather law and the legal system to suppress opposition to the war. By [...]
The Parliament of Ghana passed a bill on Friday that prohibits the practice of accusing others of witchcraft and criminalizes the declaration, accusation, naming or labelling of another person as a witch. The goal of the bill is address the persecution of people accused of witchcraft. The bill was put forward as an amendment to [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Monday critiquing the Panamanian government’s lax efforts to assist coastal indigenous peoples in the country with relocation as their ancestral homelands are destroyed by climate change. The report focuses on the island of Gardi Sugdub and the Guna people living on it. The residents of Gardi Sugdub have [...]
The Hong Kong Free Press reported Saturday that at least 1,500 people have signed a petition opposing a bill that would restructure the Council of the Chinese University of Hong Kong by reducing the number of seats and increasing the proportion of Hong Kong Legislative Council members on the university council. The bill at issue [...]
China escalated its regulations on drone exports Monday when the Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced a new policy aimed at controlling the export of specific drone components and technologies. The policy will officially take effect on September 1, 2023. The new regulations will target the export of specific drone engines, payloads, radio communication devices and [...]
