The Republic of Azerbaijan on Monday declared two French embassy employees as “personea-non-gratae.” In a press release, the Azerbaijan Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the employees engaged in actions “incompatible with their diplomatic status,” and in contraction to the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The two employees have 48 hours to leave the [...]

Amnesty International on Monday called for an “expedited” investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza. The human rights organization cited two cases in which they claimed the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) bombed targets with no “military objective.” A spokesperson for the rights organization called the bombings “part of a documented pattern of [...]

New York Judge Arthur Engoron on Friday declined to sign a mistrial motion filed by former US President Donald Trump in a civil fraud case against the Trump family and Trump Organization, stating the motion was “utterly without merit.” Trump filed the mistrial motion on November 15 alleging misconduct by court officials overseeing the case, [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) raised concerns on Tuesday about a new vehicle tracking system in Uganda. In a statement, the organization said that the system “which allows the government to track the real time location of all vehicles in the country, undermines privacy rights, and creates serious risks to the rights to freedom of association [...]

A Texas woman pleaded guilty on Friday to a charge of making threats against US District Court for the Southern District of Florida judge Aileen Cannon. Cannon currently oversees former President Donald Trump’s legal disputes around documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago, Florida residence. Tiffani Shea Gish pleaded guilty to one charge of  interstate communications with [...]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal District of Columbia Circuit on Friday temporarily froze a gag order against Trump. The per curium decision stated the purpose of the temporary freeze was to give the court time to consider an appealed emergency motion for a stay of the order requested by the former [...]

The German Constitutional Court on Tuesday ruled a law allowing double jeopardy in criminal cases where new evidence was available was unconstitutional. In the majority decision, the justices found a fundamental right that “no person may be punished more than once for the same offense.” The decision centered on Section 362 of the German Criminal [...]

US Representative George Santos (R-NY) pleaded not guilty Friday to 23 federal crimes contained in a superseding indictment. Santos was accused of nine counts of wire fraud, four counts of making false statements, three counts of unlawful money transfers amounting to over $10,000, two counts of falsifying records or documents, two counts of aggravated identity [...]

The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from North Carolina on Monday over the constitutionality of a state law allowing employers to sue employees working as undercover investigators. The denial leaves in place a lower federal court ruling that the law violated First Amendment rights when enforced against “newsgathering activities.” The denial from [...]

A US federal judge on Friday issued an order punishing former New York mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani for “continued and flagrant disregard” of court demands. The order resulted from Giuliani’s “failure to comply” with an August 30 order, which was issued after he was found guilty of defaming two Georgia election workers during [...]