A group of more than 50 legislators representing 16 legislatures called Monday on HSBC Holdings Chairman Mark Tucker to unfreeze Hong Kong activist Ted Hui’s accounts. Ted Hui is a former lawmaker from Hong Kong’s pro-democracy camp. In December, after announcing he was seeking asylum status in the UK, he said that he no longer [...]

The parents of a deceased amateur investor sued the financial trading app Robinhood Monday for the wrongful death of their son, Alex Kearns, who committed suicide last June mistakenly believing that he had lost $730,000 in a trade on the app. According to the lawsuit, Kearns’ last written words were, “How was a 20-year-old with [...]

El gobierno de Colombia y el Alto Comisionado de la ONU para los Refugiados anunciaron el pasado lunes que Colombia brindará una nueva forma de estatus legal a los 1,7 millones de venezolanos desplazados en Colombia, brindándoles seguridad básica esencial mientras vivan en este país como refugiados. La nueva iniciativa ofrece un estatus temporal de [...]

UN human rights experts expressed grave concern Monday over Thailand’s increasingly severe use of lèse-majesté laws to curtail criticism of the monarchy, singling out a 43-year sentence for an elderly woman convicted for insulting the royal family. Anchan Preelert, a 60-year-old former civil servant, was on January 19 last year handed what is viewed as [...]

David Correia, a former business associate of Rudy Guiliani, was sentenced Monday to one year and one day in federal prison, having pleaded guilty to a charge of defrauding investors. Correia was accused of collecting investments ranging from $200,000 to $500,000 for a start-up company, Fraud Guarantee. Correia, along with Lev Parnas, is accused of [...]

UN human rights experts Monday urged 57 countries to repatriate more than 10,000 displaced women and children associated with Daesh fighters from Syrian camps. The experts expressed grave concern over deteriorating conditions at Al Hol and and Roj camps located in northeast Syria, citing a recent uptick in violence and security threats within the camps. The [...]

Egyptian authorities Saturday released a journalist working for Qatar’s Al Jazeera television network who had been held in pre-trial detention for more than four years. Mahmoud Hussein, a video editor, was arrested in 2016 over accusations of attempting to overthrow the country’s government and being a member of the banned political party, Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt’s Ministry [...]

The US Senate on Tuesday voted 56-44 to proceed with the impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump, finding jurisdiction under the US Constitution. Lead impeachment manager Representative Jamie Raskin opened the day with a video depicting events from the January 6 storming of the US Capitol. The video began with Trump speaking at a rally [...]

The government of Colombia and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees announced Monday that Colombia would provide the 1.7 million displaced Venezuelans in Colombia with a new form of legal status, providing them with essential basic security while living in Colombia as refugees. The new initiative offers 10-year temporary status to displaced Venezuelans living in [...]

The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal denied pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai’s request for bail on Tuesday. Lai was arrested in August under the controversial National Security Law (NSL) and charged with fraud and “collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security.” The court granted and subsequently revoked Lai’s bail [...]