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Bangladesh authorities forcibly removed three student leaders from a hospital where they were receiving treatment for injuries allegedly sustained during police detention on Friday. The leaders—Nahid Islam, Asif Mahmud, and Abu Baker Majumder—are part of Students Against Discrimination, a group at the forefront of protests against government job quotas. These protests have escalated into violent [...]

The lower house of the Parliament of Poland, known as Sejm of the Republic of Poland (SRP), approved a bill permitting the country’s Armed Forces, the Police and the Border Guard to use firearms against migrants attempting to illegally cross the Belarusian border. The Sejm approved the bill on July 12 but it still needs [...]

Kimberly Cheatle, the director of the US Secret Service, resigned Tuesday after calling the July 13 attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life the “most significant operational failure of the Secret Service in decades” while testifying to a Congressional committee. Director Cheatle appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Accountability. After a [...]

Bodycam footage released Monday by the Illinois State Police showed Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson shooting 36-year-old Sonya Massey, a Black woman, who was tending to a pot of boiling water. Grayson was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct for his actions. He was also fired [...]

Human rights organization Viasna reported Friday that a German man was sentenced to death by firing squad by the Minsk Regional Court in Belarus and “charged with six serious offences” under the Criminal Code. He has been held in custody since November 6, 2023. The German Foreign Ministry confirmed that it is aware of the sentence [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a Minnesota law requiring handgun carry permit applicants to be at least 21 years of age is unconstitutional. The appeals court upheld a lower court ruling from 2023 that struck down the age restriction after gun-rights advocacy organizations and three adults under 21 [...]

The Centre for Supporters of Human Rights (CSHR) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement on Tuesday urging the Iranian president to halt the use of excessive force against Kurdish border couriers. HRW states that incoming President Masoud Pezeshkian condemned the practice of border couriering throughout his campaign, signalling a potential shift in the [...]

A former student nurse who was previously convicted of having brought a pressure cooker bomb to a British hospital has also been found guilty of planning a terrorist attack on a Royal Air Force Base, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced on Tuesday. On Jan. 20, 2023, Mohammad Farooq — a British citizen and former [...]

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres celebrated on Saturday the successful conclusion of the Fourth Review Conference on combating illicit small arms and light weapons. He hailed the adoption of a “strong outcome document” as a significant milestone and indicator of progress. The document included recommendations for the global community. Secretary-General Guterres said, “The proliferation, diversion [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the US Supreme Court to clarify whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) can constitutionally prohibit both violent and non-violent offenders equally from owning guns in light of the Second Amendment, which guarantees the right to keep and bear arms. The current situation arises out of numerous petitions which question the [...]