Kazakh President Kasym-Jomart Tokayev on Wednesday called participants in the fuel-price protests that have swept the Central Asian nation this week “terrorists,” accusing them of attempting to undermine their country at the behest of foreign powers, and ultimately asked Russia and the other members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to come to Kazakhstan’s [...]

A Swedish woman has been charged with war crimes for bringing her young son to Syria, where he was enlisted as a child soldier, and ultimately killed in the country’s long-simmering conflict, prosecutors announced Tuesday. The Swedish Prosecution Authority alleges the unidentified woman brought her son to Syria in August 2013, when he was 12 [...]

In an exceptional instance of diplomatic harmony, China, France, Russia, the UK and the US released a joint statement Monday advocating for nuclear non-proliferation, and citing the historic refrain, “nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” The statement, which urged the imperative of compliance with international nuclear security accords, was issued as [...]

Citing concerns for the safety of its reporters amid Hong Kong’s ongoing crackdown on pro-democracy journalism, independent media outlet CitizenNews announced the decision to shutter its operations Sunday. The move comes five years from the day the news outlet was established with the aim of advancing press freedom in Hong Kong, whose status as a [...]

US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agree that principles of international law will play a key role in determining how their tensely coiled diplomatic relations will unfold. But statements released by the White House and the Kremlin projected differing views of what took place during bilateral talks Thursday on the latest [...]

In the aftermath of a large-scale looting attacks, and amid deteriorating economic conditions in the region, the World Food Program (WFP) announced that it has suspended operations in El Fasher, the capital city of the Sudanese State of North Darfur. The shuttering is expected to affect some two million people in the area. All of [...]

Exercising a form of injunction reserved for exceptionally serious cases, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR, Court) has instructed Russia to halt efforts to shutter Memorial International and its subsidiary organization, the Court announced Wednesday. The move followed two high-profile decisions by Russian courts this week to dissolve respected non-governmental organizations that were created [...]

Washington renewed calls for the release of former US Marine Paul Whelan on the third anniversary of his arrest in Moscow on dubious espionage charges. “ traveled to Russia as a tourist and was imprisoned and sentenced on false charges,” the US State Department said Tuesday. The statement called on the Russian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Whelan, along [...]

A Russian court lengthened the prison sentence of historian and human rights activist Yuri Dmitriev on Monday, according to an official statement. The increase from 13 to 15 years was the latest development in a lengthy legal saga arising from charges widely decried as “spurious” and “politically motivated” efforts by Russian authorities to punish the [...]

The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal upheld Friday a lower court's ruling ordering the Canadian government to advocate for the repatriation of Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news...