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 [...]

Georgia police on Saturday said that they arrested tens of people for “disobedience to law enforcement requests and hooliganism,” following the ninth day of pro-EU protests in the Caucasus country. In the statement issued through the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the police reported that they had appealed to demonstrators to maintain a peaceful protest; however, [...]

The Public Ministry of the Brazilian state of Sergipe announced Saturday that three former police officers have been sentenced to long prison terms for the death of Genivaldo de Jesus Santos, a Black man with schizophrenia, in 2022. Judge Rafael Soares of the 7th Federal Court of Sergipe sentenced them to between 23 and 28 [...]

A judge in Belfast ruled on Friday that the murder trial of a former British soldier will go ahead. The defendant, Soldier F, pleaded not guilty to the murder of two Irish men and attempted murder of five others during the disturbances known as “Bloody Sunday” that took place in Northern Ireland in 1972. Soldier [...]

An impeachment motion against South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol failed to proceed in the country’s National Assembly on Saturday after the session fell short of the required quorum. Only 195 members were present at the session, below the two-thirds threshold of 200 lawmakers needed to initiate the impeachment process. The motion came in response [...]

The United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) on Thursday condemned a new Taliban directive barring Afghan women and girls from attending classes at medical institutions, warning that it will have devastating consequences for the country’s healthcare system. OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani stated: “The measure is profoundly discriminatory, short-sighted and puts the lives of women and [...]