The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday that Poland violated the right to a fair trial enshrined in Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights by quashing and modifying the sentence of a prisoner who had already served the majority of his sentence. The applicant, Łukasz Zakrzewski, contended that the [...]
A military court in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on Friday charged Anton Sopov, 21, and Stanslav Rau, 28, with murder, and sentenced them bot to life in prison for their killing of a sleeping family in Ukraine, according to the local newspaper Kommersant. The men entered the home of the Kapkanets family in Volnovakha, [...]
The mayor of the Netherlands’ capital Amsterdam, Femke Halsema, condemned the attacks on Israeli and Jewish people following a football match between the Maccabi Tel Aviv football team and a Dutch team. Israeli supporters were beaten and assaulted on the evening of November 7. Halsema said that the attacks were not related to “the situation [...]
The European Court of Human rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that Italy did not violate the rights of a man with HIV (which had possibly developed into AIDS) by keeping him in a general prison and exposing him to the risk of catching COVID-19. The applicant was a man born in 1997 who lived in Varese, [...]
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has temporarily suspended a new school curriculum in the Republika Srpska under which elementary school students would be taught about the “achievements” of convicted war criminals Ratko Mladić and Radovan Karadzic. A statement from the court Friday said that the court found: would have serious and irremediable detrimental [...]
UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq stated in a briefing Friday that “aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months. No one has received food parcels in this month due to constrained access of aid supplies.” The UN reported that bakeries are shutting all around the Palestinian-occupied territory in Gaza as bakers cannot secure [...]
Eighty Pakistan police officers were injured in a protest rally held by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) against the arbitrary detention of ex-prime minister Imran Khan, according to statements made by Interior Minister Moshin Navqi. The rally was held Saturday, converging on Islamabad’s D Chowk plaza. Navqi said that the protesters, led by the chief minister [...]
Two people were killed during a French police operation in New Caledonia on Thursday, according to French media. The police operation took place amid unrest between French loyalists and indigenous Kanak people in the territory. French forces took to the streets of San Louis in Le Mont-Dore, New Caledonia, and targeted people wanted for armed [...]
The British government announced Wednesday it will pass legislation to control 16 drugs that were not previously regulated. Among the soon-to-be-regulated substances was xylazine, a controversial veterinary medication known as a “zombie drug,” which causes exhaustion and skin lesions that resist healing. Caroline Copeland, the director of the National Programme on Substance Use Morality and [...]
The UK foreign secretary David Lammy announced on Monday that 30 out of 350 arms export licenses to Israel would be immediately suspended, as the export of certain arms to Israel may allegedly risk breaching international humanitarian law and the UK’s strategic export controls. Lammy said that the trade and business secretary would not suspend [...]
