The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled  Tuesday that photographs of detainees taken by US military personnel can be withheld from release. In 2003 the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for the release of photographs depicting torture at military detention facilities in [...]

Imprisoned Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha  was denied bail by the Cambodian Supreme Court Wednesday. Sokha was arrested  last fall on charges on trying to overthrow the government, and the Cambodia National Rescue Party was dissolved. Sokha has not been given a trial since he was imprisoned. Cambodia’s leader, Hun Sen  has been in power for more than [...]

UN Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy  said Wednesday that sanctions against Iran must be just and not harmful to innocent citizens. The sanctions  reimposed earlier this month by US President Donald Trump are “destroying the economy and currency of Iran, driving millions of people into poverty and making imported goods affordable,” stressed the UN expert. Jazairy stated: [...]

A Vietnamese court in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday began the trial of 12 people, including two American citizens, on charges of subversion. The government-run news agency said two Vietnam-born American citizens stand accused of commanding the distribution of “anti-state leaflets, tak over state radio stations to broadcast anti-government messages, and participat in anti-government protests.” [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein  said on Monday that he is concerned about the future of the UN because of the veto power held by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council: Russia, the US, China, the UK and France.  Zeid told  journalists that he felt the permanent five were “running [...]

Argentina President Mauricio Macri  expressed his plan to report Venezuela to the International Criminal Court (ICC)  during an interview on CNN’s Spanish service Sunday night. From a transcript of part of the interview published in el Nuevo Herald , Macri, along with the leaders of Colombia, Paraguay and other Latin American countries, plan to propose a petition [...]

Former Nazi guard Jakiw Palij was deported from the US to Germany on Tuesday, fulfilling a 2004 federal court order, according to a statement from the White House . Palij was a guard at the Trawniki Labor Camp in 1943 and allegedly served to further “Operation Reinhard,” which was code for the Third Reich’s plan to murder all [...]

Mali’s Constitutional Court on Monday declared sitting President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita the winner of the country’s August 12 presidential runoff election. According to electoral officials, Keita garnered 67.2 percent of the vote, easily besting Soumaila Cisse, who received 32.8 percent. The court listed the official vote count at 2,753,698 or 34.42 percent of the country’s 8 million registered [...]

A judicial commission probing corruption under former South African president Jacob Zuma began its public hearings Monday. Zuma resigned last February and was charged with corruption in March. Zuma’s fall began with the State of Capture Report , tasked with investigating the upper levels of the Zuma administration for corruption. Specifically, the former president stands accused [...]

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi  signed a cybersecurity law Saturday that allows the government broad authority to block websites while setting jail sentences and jail fines for violations. Amnesty International described the new law as giving “the state near-total control over print, online and broadcast media.” There is another cybersecurity law  pending before the president, [...]