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Since the start of July, Egyptian security forces have detained 119 people, including at least one child, for participating in anti-government protests, human rights advocacy organization Amnesty International reported Thursday. In recent weeks, frustrations about price hikes and power cuts have fueled demonstrations and calls for revolution against the government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah [...]

Six people were killed in Bangladesh and hundreds injured on Tuesday during the ongoing students’ protest against the quota system that reinstates a 30 per cent quota for government jobs for children of freedom fighters in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, as per the local news. The government has ordered the indefinite closure of [...]

US Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond submitted an appeal to the US Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday. The appeal challenges a court order against a preliminary injunction that halts the controversial anti-illegal immigration House Bill 4156 in the state. The preliminary injunction, which was issued last month, prevented Oklahoma from enforcing the bill. The [...]

US Navy on Wednesday exonerated 256 black sailors who were convicted of mutiny and disobeying orders following the naval base explosion at Port Chicago, California around 80 years ago. The explosion was the deadliest disaster on US soil during World War II, with 320 dead, 390 injured, and damage forty-eight miles across the San Francisco [...]

The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday fired Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) chairperson Selina Cheng after she refused a senior editor’s request to withdraw from the chair election and to quit the HKJA board entirely, said Cheng in a statement. In her statement, Cheng stated that her supervisor directed her to withdraw from the election [...]

Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa Khanyo Farise urged Zimbabwean authorities on Wednesday to immediately release over 70 detained members of the opposition party Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and withdraw all their charges unconditionally. According to Farise, Zimbabwean authorities breached Zimbabwe’s Constitution and international human rights obligations by arbitrarily detaining [...]

New Zealand Associate Minister of Health David Seymour on Tuesday delivered a letter of expectation directing the government agency responsible for funding pharmaceuticals, Pharmac, to cease considerations of the country’s founding constitutional document the Treaty of Waitangi/te Tiriti o Waitangi. In the letter, Minister Seymour stated that he did not believe embedding the principles of [...]

The General Court of the European Union (GC) on Wednesday ruled that ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, qualifies as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which subjects the company to stricter regulations aimed at ensuring fair competition and user rights. The Commission assigned ByteDance gatekeeper status in September 2023 under the DMA. Gatekeeper status [...]

The US Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General announced an investigation Wednesday into the Secret Service’s process for securing the Trump campaign rally on July 13 where one spectator was killed and several others, including the former president, were injured in an apparent assassination attempt. It is unclear when this investigation began as it is [...]

Multiple international human rights organizations released a statement calling on Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to veto a controversial new law that would allow the deportation or entry ban of foreigners deemed “undesirable.” The human rights groups fear the law could be exploited to arbitrarily deny entry to international human rights defenders, journalists, academics, lawyers and [...]