Articles Tagged with Alexei Navalny

Indigenous peoples and rural communities in the Philippines are facing human rights abuses amid nickel mining expansion, according to a report published by Amnesty International on Thursday. Amnesty International found that nickel mining in the country has undermined the communities’ right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Amnesty’s business and human rights researcher Alysha [...]

The US House of Representatives voted Thursday to impose sanctions against foreign persons who have taken part in or aided efforts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to “investigate, detain, or prosecute” protected persons under US law, which includes the government officials of allies. In its current form, Section 3 of the bill, titled the [...]

New York Judge Juan Merchan gave US president-elect Donald Trump an “unconditional discharge” during a sentencing hearing Friday,  formally convicting the president-elect on 34 felony counts of falsified business records without further penalties such as prison time or fines. Reporter Adam Klasfeld relayed that Merchan deemed the unconditional discharge the “only lawful sentence” in this [...]

The Venezuelan government arrested opposition leader María Corina Machado on Thursday during an anti-government protest in Caracas. This incident occurred just one day before President Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration for a third term. According to Machado’s team, security forces “violently intercepted” her as she attempted to leave the rally in Chacao, with government troops firing upon [...]

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s lawyer stated on Thursday that Yoon is prepared to abide by the verdict of the Constitutional Court overseeing the impeachment proceedings, even in the event of his removal from office, according to local news. During a press briefing at the Korea Conference Center in Seoul, Yoon’s Attorney Yoon Kab-keun [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a lawsuit Tuesday against six corporate landlords and a software company accused of colluding to fix rent prices by sharing sensitive competitive information through the use of pricing algorithms. The DOJ accused the landlords of colluding through software created by tech company RealPage, which collects sensitive pricing information [...]

The European Commission on Wednesday dismissed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that European Union (EU) laws and regulations on online content amount to censorship of social media platforms. European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier affirmed: “We don’t ask any platform to remove any lawful content.” Regnier distinguished between illegal content and potentially harmful content, stating that [...]

The US Supreme Court refused to halt president-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush-money criminal case by a 5-4 vote Thursday. The court reasoned that the likely sentence of an “unconditional discharge” would not hamper Trump’s transition to the presidency and that evidentiary issues raised by Trump’s lawyers could be resolved through regular appeals. A [...]

Amnesty International urged Cameroon to improve its human rights situation Thursday, responding to the country’s suspension of four non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including the Central African Human Rights Defenders Network (REDHAC), and the alleged harassment of Cameroonian lawyer and REDHAC board president Alice Nkom. On December 5, Cameroonian Minister of Territorial Administration Paul Atanga Nji issued [...]

An AP-NORC poll released on Tuesday cited immigration as a growing concern for all groups polled including Republicans, Democrats and independents. The poll was conducted in December, with 47 percent of respondents stating that immigration was the top issue for the government in 2025. While the public is somewhat unified in its belief that immigration [...]