Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, was released from pre-trial detention on Wednesday after spending four days in custody. Durov was detained by French authorities on Saturday at Le Bourget Airport outside Paris. His arrest was based on allegations related to violations of laws concerning drug trafficking, child sexual content, promotion of terrorism, [...]
The Supreme Court of India held on Wednesday that the principle “bail is the rule and jail is the exception” applies to cases under the country’s Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). This was stated by a bench comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and K.V. Viswanathan, who granted bail to an accused in a money laundering [...]
At least 94 people have been arbitrarily arrested since late July for expressing public criticism of the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area (CLV), Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said in a joint statement on Wednesday. The human rights organizations believe at least 59 of those arrested have been unlawfully detained by Cambodian authorities. “The authorities [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called Tuesday for the Taliban’s recently enacted “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” law in Afghanistan to be repealed. A spokesperson for Türk, Ravina Shamdasani, condemned the new law as “utterly intolerable,” demanding, “e call on the de facto authorities to immediately repeal this legislation, which [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Monday stayed a lower court decision to block Florida laws that ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors and restrict such healthcare for transgender adults. The decision allows for Florida to enforce SB 254 (Treatments for Sex Reassignment), which bans hormone replacement therapy for minors and [...]
Muhyiddin Yassin, the former prime minister of Malaysia and current leader of the opposition coalition, Perikatan Nasional, was formally charged Tuesday with sedition for allegedly insulting the country’s previous monarch. This marks the first time a former prime minister has been prosecuted under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act 1948. The charges stem from comments [...]
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced Tuesday that it has opened criminal cases against at least seven Western journalists who illegally crossed the state border of the Russian Federation near Sudzha in the Kursk region. The FSB stated that the journalists were charged with violating Part 3 of Article 322 of the Criminal Code of [...]
US federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment Tuesday against former president Donald Trump on four criminal charges related to a federal investigation into interference with the 2020 presidential election. Special Counsel Jack Smith filed the indictment in response to a July Supreme Court decision that US presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for actions taken within [...]
A new report by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) released on Monday found that Canada’s Bill C-26 will allow the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s national cryptology agency which provides the Canadian government with technology security as well as foreign signals intelligence, to escape transparency requirements. Bill C-26 grants the CSE additional powers [...]
Venezuela prosecutors issued a second summons to opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez on Monday for questioning regarding an opposition website that posted detailed results surrounding the disputed presidential election last month. The website is reported to have provided detailed voting results of the election to the public, displaying an indisputable victory in Gonzalez’s favour. The voting [...]
