Ukraine Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko announced Friday that Iryna Farion, a former nationalist politician known for her staunch advocacy of Ukrainian language use over Russian, was fatally shot in Lviv. In a statement released via Telegram, Klymenko indicated that investigators are considering several theories, including personal animosity and Farion’s sociopolitical activities, while not ruling out [...]
The Superior Court of Los Angeles County experienced a ransomware attack on Friday, leading to the shutdown of the court’s internal computer systems. The systems will remain offline through the weekend as efforts to address the issue continue. Upon detecting the ransomware attack, the Superior Court disabled its network systems to prevent further damage. The [...]
The US District Court for the District of Columbia sentenced a former Marine Tyler Dykes on Friday to nearly five years in prison for assaulting police officers during the January 6 Capitol attack. On top of the imprisonment, Dykes received another 36 months of supervised release and a $22,000 fine. Prosecutors from the federal government [...]
Amnesty International urged Malian authorities to release immediately the arbitrarily detained dissidents Youssouf Daba Diawara and 11 other opposition politicians in a statement made on Friday. According to the statement, Malian authorities have been arbitrarily detaining these politicians solely for exercising their human rights, including the right to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association. [...]
Wrongfully convicted Missouri inmate Sandra Hemme was released from prison Friday after a monthlong battle with the state’s attorney general who sought to deny the release on procedural and jurisdictional grounds. Hemme’s release was the outcome of a sequence of motions and petitions. Following Circuit Judge Ryan Horsman’s decision to overturn Hemme’s conviction based on [...]
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu signed legislation Friday that prohibits transgender girls from competing on school athletics teams that match their gender identity while also approving another bill that bans gender reassignment surgery for minors. Sununu also vetoed a bill that would have permitted some businesses and government entities to restrict bathroom access to individuals [...]
A fire ignited Saturday night for the third day in a row at a former factory in Coolock, Ireland that was going to be set aside to house asylum seekers. While firefighters have said this latest blaze was put under control, this fire is the latest episode in a series of unrest and violent incidents [...]
The Court of First Instance of Tunisia on Friday sentenced opposition leader Lotfi Mraihi to eight months in prison with a lifetime ban from contesting elections on charges of illicitly influencing votes through gifts and cash, as reported by local media. Mraihi is the founder and president of the Union Populaire Républicaine (Republican Union Party). He [...]
The Peruvian judiciary announced on Thursday an extension of the pre-trial detention for former President Pedro Castillo by an additional 18 months. The Permanent Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court granted the public prosecutor’s request for the extension, and the decision reversed an earlier ruling that had extended the former president’s detention by 14 months. [...]
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday expressed concern over the disappearance of two Guinea activists after their arrest by the country’s security personnel. The human rights office urged Guinea to release the activists unless they were “formally charged in accordance with established judicial procedures, guaranteeing their right [...]
