Amnesty International (AI) released a statement Thursday detailing cases of at least 50 people who were arbitrarily banned from traveling out of Tunisia over the last month. AI records showed that president Kai Saied has made extensive use of travel bans in the first month since he assumed exceptional powers. AI stated that the number [...]

In a judgment delivered on Friday, the ICC Appeals Chamber confirmed Pre-Trial Chamber II’s July 5 “Decision on the review of detention” continuing Abd-Al-Rahman’s pre-trial detention. Abd-Al-Rahman, a top commander of a militia group, is suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur region of Sudan. The appeal, which was founded on three grounds, [...]

In a 5-2 decision, the Kenya Court of Appeal on Friday upheld a Kenya High Court decision declaring the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), a constitutional amendment bill, unconstitutional. The decision has been rendered on a string of appeals flowing from the high court judgment in May, which termed BBI an usurpation of the people’s exercise [...]

President Andrzej Duda signed a bill on Saturday that severely restricts restitution and compensation for people whose properties were seized by Nazi occupiers, and expropriated during the country’s communist era. The bill was passed by the Polish parliament on Thursday and will mostly affect Jews and their descendants who are the majority whose properties were [...]

The UK on Monday imposed tighter sanctions on Belarus in a bid to repress its totalitarian regime. The sanctions, which were effected by an amendment to the Republic of Belarus(sanctions)(EU Exit) Regulations 2019, include aviation, trade, and economic measures.  These sanctions are subsequent to a joint designation imposed in June this year by the UK, [...]

In a statement released on Saturday, the UN in Zimbabwe criticized the practice of child marriage in the country. This follows the untimely death of an expecting adolescent girl who died during childbirth. The statement detailed the protracted challenge of sexual violation of girls in Zimbabwe where early marriages are common. It decried worrying statistics [...]

An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced 24 Muslim Brotherhood members to death over their alleged involvement in two diverse terrorist attacks that resulted in the death of 4 police officers. The news of these convictions was released in the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper.  The first of the two convictions, both of which have been delivered by the [...]

The Parliament of Sierra Leone passed a bill Friday abolishing the death penalty. If given presidential assent, this law will see the west African country become the 23rd country in the continent to abolish the capital punishment. The country’s legal regime prescribes the death penalty for the offences of murder, treason, mutiny and aggravated robbery. [...]

Human rights organizations lodged a criminal complaint Friday against 25 El Salvadoran soldiers and a former officer for their alleged involvement in the murder of four Dutch journalists during the 12 year civil war. The complaint, which was filed in the municipality of Dulce Nombre de Maria, comes against a backdrop of protracted international activism [...]

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) law makers introduced a bill Thursday which seeks to limit the eligibility requirement for presidential candidates. Noel Tshiani, an ally to president Felix Tshisekedi, is the major proponent of the bill, which aims to highly restrict the thresholds for the presidential candidature. Key among the restrictions is the limitation [...]