The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) filed an application before the Inter-Amercian Court of Human Rights against Paraguay for violation of the right to freedom of expression and judicial guarantees of Paraguayan journalist Aldo Zuccolillo Moscarda, according to a press release published on Monday. The application is related to a case that started in [...]

A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report published on Thursday stated that the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, overlooked the European Union’s founding principles and guidelines on human rights in the mission letters she wrote to the European commissioners for the new mandate of 2024 to 2029. The report found that von [...]

The former minister of transport of Singapore, S Iswaran pleaded guilty on Tuesday for receiving gifts worth over S $400,000 ( more than US $300,000) while in office and for obstructing the course of justice, local news agency Channel News Asia (CNA) reported. Iswaran faced charges related to his interactions with two Singaporean businessmen, Ong [...]

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) said in a report on Thursday that Russian armed forces’ attacks on energy facilities in Ukraine had devastating effects on the country’s infrastructure and possibly violated international humanitarian law. The UN-mandated mission focused its report on nine waves of attacks on Ukraine’s electric power system that [...]

A United Nations report stated Tuesday that the Venezuelan authorities’ repression of the protests following the July 28 elections reached an unprecedented level of violence, including the commission of human rights violations. The report was conducted by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Republic of Venezuela and examined the human rights situation in the [...]

Three journalist organizations filed a complaint against German authorities with the country’s Federal Constitutional Court, local media reported on Wednesday. The complaint concerns investigators’ wiretapping of phone calls between journalists and climate activists. This constitutional complaint follows two previous verdicts issued by Munich’s District Court and Munich’s Regional Court. The three associations that filed the [...]

The first investigative judge in Beirut, Lebanon, ruled on Monday that the former governor of Lebanon’s central bank (BDL), Riad Salameh, will remain in detention as investigations into corruption charges continue, local media reported. The judge issued an arrest warrant against Riad Salameh after his interrogation session concluded. Riad Salameh was the head of Lebanon’s [...]

The Tunisian Workers’ Union (UGTT) and the Tunisian Association of Constitutional Law (ATDC) have both harshly criticized the Tunisian electoral commission’s decision to reject an administrative court’s ruling that reinstated three candidates to the presidential elections. The statements described the move as a serious precedent that threatens the values of the Tunisian Republic, local media [...]

Myanmar’s military court sentenced 144 civilians from Rakhine State to prison for their alleged support to insurgent armed groups, local media reported on Monday. The military court’s verdict comes more than three months after the arrest of the sentenced civilians in a military attack on their village Byain Phyu in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine [...]

The German government carried out on Friday morning its first deportation flight of Afghan nationals back to their home country, according to a statement published by Germany’s Minister of Interior and Home Affairs Nancy Faeser. The deported people were 28 Afghans who had been convicted of criminal offenses and were subject to deportation orders. They [...]