The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday upheld in-part the constitutionality of the world’s largest biometric database system, which contains personal information of more than a billion Indians, saying the benefits of the system outweigh the costs to individual freedoms. The system is called the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIAI). The court explained the [...]
Egypt’s highest court, the Court of Cassation , on Monday upheld death sentences for 20 individuals previously convicted of a fatal attack on a local police station in August 2013. The incident stemmed from a pro-Muslim Brotherhood demonstration outside the capital, in which armed forces killed hundreds. Earlier this month another Egyptian court sentenced 75 people to [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on Monday seeking information related to comments made by US National Security Advisor John Bolton on the US policy towards the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The FOIA request specifically asks for communications from January 20, 2017 to the present, which [...]
George Soros’ Open Society Foundations announced on Monday that it has filed a suit in the European Court of Human Rights against Hungary over “Stop Soros laws.” The laws enacted in Hungary include “a 25 percent tax on funding for any activities and organizations that promote or positively portray migration” and making it illegal for [...]
The EU on Monday referred Poland to the Court of Justice of the EU due to a new law that would force 27 Supreme Court judges to retire. Poland’s new law lowers the retirement age of Supreme Court judges from 70 to 65, which would require that 27 out of 72 sitting Supreme Court judges [...]
The Italian cabinet on Monday unanimously approved a decree that will make deporting migrants easier. The new bill would make it easier for migrants who have been found guilty of serious crimes to be deported. Previously, this could only be done after a long appeals process. The bill suggests six criteria for determining whether an [...]
The Scottish Court of Session , Scotland’s Supreme Court for civil matters, said Friday that a question of Britain’s ability to revoke the Brexit plan upon its inability to agree posed by anti-Brexit advocates is one for the EU. Article 50 of the Treaty on EU provides the protocol for how a member state may [...]
Amnesty International UK blamed the Venezuelan government under President Nicolás Maduro for the “worst human rights crisis in its history” in a report published on Thursday. The study highlights human rights abuses that Amnesty condemns as showing a disregard for human life. Among the most poignant statistics are that 22 percent of homicides committed in 2016 [...]
The Eastern High Court of appeals in Denmark on Friday upheld a decision that a Rwandan native and Danish national since 2014 can be extradited to face trial for crimes against humanity. Wenceslas Twagirayezu is suspected of committing crimes against humanity in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Twagirayezu was arrested in May 2017 . In a [...]
The Malaysian Anticorruption Commission (MAC) brought additional charges against former prime minster Najib Razak on Thursday. The former prime minster was arrested and brought before the Kuala Lumpur Session Court to hear more than 20 corruption charges against him. The additional charges against Razak were made pursuant to the Anti-Money Laundering Act, Prevention of Terrorism Financing and Revenue [...]
