Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report on Tuesday detailing allegations of widespread human rights abuses committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan’s South Kordofan state. The report documents a pattern of violence in the towns of Habila and Fayu between December 2023 and March 2024, including the killing of scores of civilians, [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday criticized the inhumane treatment of migrants attempting to cross into Poland from Belarus, especially criticizing the actions to Polish border guards. According to the organization, Polish law enforcement “unlawfully” pushed migrants back into Belarus, sometimes using violence, while also denying them access to asylum procedures in violation of international [...]

Amnesty International on Monday called upon Chad authorities to “immediately release” the relatives of killed opposition party leader Yaya Dillo Djerou, who remain detained despite being acquitted. The statement urges Chadian authorities to release 10 detained relatives of the Parti Socialiste sans Frontières (PSF) leader. The relatives were acquitted in July following a military assault [...]

The UN Security Council (UNSC) will hold an emergency meeting in New York on Monday afternoon to discuss the situation in Syria, as announced by Russia’s first deputy permanent representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, in a Telegram post. Russia requested an urgent closed consultation with the UNSC after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled to [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a statement on Monday calling on the Argentine government to refrain from appointing Supreme Court justices through presidential decree. HRW emphasized that judicial appointments should prioritize candidates’ qualifications, experience, diversity, and integrity to uphold the judiciary’s independence and impartiality. The organization’s appeal comes amidst heightened scrutiny of Argentina’s judicial system [...]

The Khatai District Court in Azerbaijan held a trial on Sunday of the six journalists detained the previous day in Baku on smuggling charges. Five of the six reporters, Natig Javadli, Khayala Aghayeva, Aytaj Tapdig, Aynur Elgunesh and Aysel Umudova, work with the Berlin-based independent media outlet Meydan TV. The sixth, Ramin Jabrayilzade, is an independent [...]

Syrian rebels declared on Sunday ousted President Bashar al-Assad after seizing control of the capital city of Damascus. Bashar al-Assad has reportedly fled Syria, putting an end to five decades of Ba’ath rule in this country. Rebels of the Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) movement entered Damascus on Sunday, a week after taking Syria’s second-largest city, [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on the Cambodian government on Sunday to bring to justice those responsible for the murder of an environmental journalist, and to take decisive action to eradicate deteriorating violence against journalists in the country. The group strongly condemned the violence against local journalist Chhoeung Chheng, who died on December 7 in [...]

The Romanian Constitutional Court decided on Friday to halt the country’s ongoing presidential elections. The decision came after the president in-duty, Klaus Iohannis declassified four internal intelligence documents, indicating that Russia unduly supported one of the candidates via aggressive hybrid attacks. Georgescu, the main ultra-nationalist and pro-Russian candidate in the country’s electoral race condemned the [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a suspected drug sale constitutes an “exigent circumstance” that justifies warrantless search, which would otherwise be considered a violation of privacy under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The case concerns the tension between the constitutional right to privacy and the police’s power to search when obtaining [...]