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Here's the international legal news we covered this week: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday warned Syria that air strikes, shelling and use of toxic agents in Eastern Ghouta likely...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday accused Egyptian authorities of escalating arbitrary arrests against political opponents. According to HRW, the arrests, which took place in late January to February, are part of a government strategy to...

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: A group of five UN Human Right's experts on Friday asked Egypt to halt all pending executions following repeated allegations of unfair trials. The experts are concerned with a...

A group of five UN Human Right's experts on Friday asked Egypt to halt all pending executions following repeated allegations of unfair trials. The experts are concerned with a "continuing pattern of death sentences handed out on the...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) published its annual report Thursday, covering global human rights issues from late 2016 through November 2017, and more than 90 countries. It highlights human rights problems occurring in Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Russia,...

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday demanded that all member states comply with Resolutions issued by the Security Council regarding the status of Jerusalem. The General Assembly described city as "a final status...

The legal world is a busy place. Here are a few stories we didn't get to this week that we thought you might be interested in. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday there are "strong indications of election...

Here's the international legal news we covered this week: Amnesty International (AI) on Friday released a report detailing humanitarian crisis incidents that may amount to war crimes in the Philippines. The chief judge of the...

An Egypt court on Wednesday upheld the life sentence of 74-year-old Mohamed Badie, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood , convicted in 2015 for his role in the 2013 attack on a Port Said police station that resulted...

Bahrain issued a statement Saturday declaring that the country has a right to reclaim lands that the nation believes were wrongfully taken by Qatar. The lands in dispute were settled by a International Court of Justice decision ...