Videographical substance is sensitive in nature. Viewer discretion is advised. The New York attorney general released video footage on Friday showing that correctional officers beat Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility hours before he was pronounced dead. The video recordings were reviewed by the office and by Brooks’ family before they were released. New York [...]

Several UN special rapporteurs on Monday expressed concern over systemic targeting of Baha’i-religion women in Iran. The UN experts observed that Baha’i women have been facing arrests, summoning for interrogation, enforced disappearance, raids on their homes, and confiscation of their personal belongings. In a letter from July this year, the experts detailed the violations of [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday partially revived a suit alleging improper FBI surveillance of Muslim residents of Southern California. The case was heard on remand from the US Supreme Court and decided on the findings of the District Court. Yassir Fazaga and other plaintiffs had initially filed a putative [...]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a New York doctor for allegedly providing abortion drugs to a Texas resident. The state filed the lawsuit at the District Court at Collin County, claiming that the defendant’s “knowing and continuing violations of Texas law places women and unborn children in Texas at [...]

The South African government has refused to help an estimated 4,000 miners illegally occupying an underground mine in Stilfontein, attempting to “smoke them out” and crack down on illegal mining.   When asked whether the government would be sending any help to the miners still remaining underground, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said, “We are [...]

The Supreme Court of Mexico narrowly denied a challenge to controversial judicial reforms on Tuesday that were enacted by the government in September of this year. The reforms will make all judges in Mexico elected by a popular vote and establish an elected judicial disciplinary court to oversee judges. The number of justices in the [...]

The Alberta government introduced three new bills on Thursday aimed at controlling minors’ ability to undergo certain gender-affirming healthcare procedures, choose their name and pronouns at school, and participate in sports. The first bill, Bill 26, aims to amend multiple pieces of health legislation, including the Alberta Health Act. The bill would prohibit sex reassignment surgery [...]

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday that “the darkest moment of the Gaza conflict is unfolding in the north of the Strip.” A year after the October 7 attack that marked the beginning of the current Gaza conflict, the international community has been unable to impose a ceasefire in [...]

The Supreme Court of India began to hear a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the exception given to marital rape from criminal sanction on Thursday. The challenge pertains to Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) 1860, which has been replaced by Section 63 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023. [...]

The Fukuoka High Court of Japan upheld the constitutionality of a law that forces Japanese citizens to give up their citizenship if they acquire citizenship in any other country on Thursday. The case was heard on appeal from the Fukuoka district court, after the petitioner Yuri Konto’s failed challenge against the Japanese Nationality Law. The [...]