Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas, a Houston-based midwife, for performing abortions and in the northwest Houston area. This marks the first known criminal arrest of an abortion provider since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022. Performing an abortion is a second degree felony in Texas. [...]
A pro-Palestine activist organization filed a legal challenge on Monday against the passage of controversial laws permitting police to restrict protest near places of worship in New South Wales, Australia. The Sydney-based Palestine Action Group announced in a media release that it is filing a constitutional challenge in the Supreme Court of New South Wales against [...]
A US federal judge ordered the Trump administration Monday to explain the deportation of more than 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 despite a court order not to do so. According to CNN, US District Judge James Boasberg stated during a hearing that he wanted “the government to submit by [...]
US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staff entered the offices of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Monday with the help of DC police after the former acting president, George Moose, refused to vacate the premises, according to US media. National Defense University president Peter Garvin, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of [...]
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s actions to deport Palestinian activists. The lawsuit seeks a nationwide injunction against executive orders that violate scholars’ freedom of speech. The ADC filed the complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of New York against [...]
The New York Times reported Monday that the United States is withdrawing from the International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA). “The US authorities have informed me that they will conclude their involvement in the ICPA by the end of March,” Michael Schmid, president of the European Union Agency for [...]
Amnesty International urged Mozambican authorities on Monday to disclose the results of any investigation conducted in the case of Inocêncio Manhique, a protester who the group said suffered from unlawful use of force during a peaceful protest. Manhique was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet by the police during a peaceful protest two [...]
US President Donald J. Trump claimed in a Truth social media post Monday that former President Joseph Biden’s pardons are void because they were made via autopen. Trump stated: Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning Documents were not explained to, or approved by, [...]
Amnesty International submitted on Monday its input to the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights regarding the effects of toxic exposure and access to justice. The report emphasized on the right to access to justice and effective remedies in the context of environmental degradation. Amnesty International’s report considers four cases of human rights [...]
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday arrested another Palestinian who participated in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and announced the self-deportation to India of another student whose visa had been revoked in 2022. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian from the West Bank, was arrested by ICE [...]
