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On November 25, 2020, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an emergency opinion in the case of Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York, v. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of  New York (Application No. 20A87) ostensibly to protect the freedom of religion. The 5 to 4 decision appealing denials of a stay from [...]

Thousands of French people took to the streets on Saturday to protest pending legislation that aims at protecting police officers and increasing public surveillance. The legislation, dubbed as the “Global Security Act,” is a comprehensive security law that is supported by MPs from the governing party. The draft contains numerous stringent provisions, amongst which Article [...]

In a public statement released Friday, Amnesty International called on Polish police to put an end to its violent response to those protesting the Constitutional Tribunal’s recent tightening of abortion law. Amnesty expressed concern at a number of police practices employed in the wake of the controversial decision. Specifically, it condemed the use of pepper [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called for the protection of civilians in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado Friday, after reports of an “increasingly alarming human rights situation.” Insurgents captured the district of Muidumbe in Cabo Delgado last week, causing thousands to flee. Bachelet described the human rights situation as “desperate” for many. The international humanitarian law [...]

A US federal district court judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction to plaintiffs alleging that federal officers violated protestors’ free speech rights in summer protests in Portland, Oregon. The lawsuit was originally filed in July by two Oregon state lawmakers, Janelle Bynum and Karin Power, legal observer Sara Eddie, as well as the First [...]

Terrorism, a grave danger to the life and property of the world at large, has been addressed by countries differently from time to time. States have the duty to protect its citizens from such “terrorist acts of violence”. However, measures aimed to respect this duty of protection must also comply with the obligations of States [...]

In October 2001, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to avenge the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and remove the Taliban government that had harbored the attacks’ mastermind, Osama bin Laden. Since then, the Taliban have been fighting the U.S. to free their homeland from occupation. For nearly 20 years, the U.S. narrative of “national [...]

Slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancee Hatice Cengiz and Democracy for the Arab World Now, Inc. (DAWN) filed a lawsuit Tuesday in a US district court against Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and a couple dozen others. The complaint alleges that key elements of the conspiracy to murder Khashoggi took place at the Saudi embassy in [...]

The spread of fake news and misinformation during the pandemic has been unprecedented. Governments have been prompted to take measures to curb this spread in order to quell panic amongst the public. One such measure was taken by Mumbai Police by promulgating a prohibitory order under Section 144 of India’s Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday lifted a stay issued in August, reinstating the district court injunction barring federal agents from targeting journalists and legal observers at protests. The injunction sets out that press passes, standing to the side of protests and carrying professional-grade photographic equipment should be used to [...]