The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), an independent humanitarian organization operating in Libya, raised concern on Friday over the mass arrests and detention of more than 500 migrants in Tripoli by Libyan authorities. Libya’s Interior Ministry stated that security forces have carried out a major  operation against criminals, liquor and drug dealers, and undocumented people in [...]

The Superior Court of Glynn County, Georgia ruled on Friday that Ahmaud Arbery’s mental health records could not be used as evidence in the trial against the three white men accused of killing the 25-year-old Black man. The defendants, Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan, chased Arbery in a pickup truck and fatally shot [...]

Steven Donziger, a former attorney who has spent decades battling Chevron Corp. over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest, was sentenced on Friday to six months in prison for criminal contempt of court. The initial dispute originated in 2011 after an Ecuadorian court rendered a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron for allegedly dumping contaminated waste into the [...]

A UK law firm, Mishcon de Reya, announced Thursday that it is bringing a representative suit against Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) subsidiary DeepMind Technologies over breach of data protection laws arising from DeepMind’s data-sharing arrangement with the Royal Free London National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust. In 2015, DeepMind and the NHS announced a collaboration [...]

A forensic spatial analysis released by Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday revealed a suspected illegal pushback of Afghan asylum seekers by Poland late in August. The analysis further indicates that the 32 Afghans are presently living in deplorable conditions. Through photogrammetry and other spatial modelling techniques, AI’s crisis evidence lab analyzed various satellite imagery and [...]

Former France president Nicholas Sarkozy was found guilty of illegaly financing his 2012 re-election campaign Thursday, making him the first head of state since the second world war to receive two jail terms. This was the second guilty charge for Sarkozy—he was found guilty of corruption in a separate trial six months prior when he [...]

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday turned down an emergency appeal to block a New York City COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public school teachers. The case concerns an executive order issued by Mayor Bill de Blasio on August 23 mandating that all public school employees get vaccinated by October 1 or be placed [...]

Former Metropolitan Police Service Officer Wayne Couzens was sentenced to life in jail Thursday for kidnapping Sarah Everard as she was walking on a London street before later raping and murdering her. Everard, 33, was walking home when Couzens used his police identification and handcuffs to falsely arrest and abduct Everard. Prosecutors stated that Couzens used [...]

The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly Wednesday passed a resolution urging the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers to adopt an additional protocol to the European Convention of Human Rights establishing an enforceable “right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment.” The Social Affairs Committee of the Assembly presented the draft proposal in September [...]

The Mozambique Islamic State group Al-Shabab (unrelated to Somalian group of the same name), has been kidnapping and forcing children to become soldiers, according to a Human Rights Watch report released on Wednesday. Evidence suggests that the armed group has abducted boys, as young as 12, to be trained in bases in Cabo Delgado and [...]