An Ontario provincial court on Tuesday issued an interim interlocutory injunction against a group of pro-Palestinian protestors at the University of Toronto’s Front Campus and King’s College Circle. The order, granted by Justice Koehnen of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, mandates the removal of all structures and personal property from these areas by 6 [...]

The US Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear a case challenging a Texas law that requires age verification and imposes health warnings for pornography websites. Texas Bill 1181, which was passed in September 2023, requires age verification measures to be used by websites that host sexually explicit material if it comprises at least one-third of [...]

The 78th Session of the UN General Assembly on Monday adopted a draft resolution “Enhancing international cooperation on capacity-building of artificial intelligence” (A/78/L.86).  Introduced by China, the text resolves to bridge the artificial intelligence (AI) divides between and within countries with the particular aim of increasing technology capabilities for developing countries. The resolution and the [...]

Amnesty International has accused authorities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KR-I) of neglecting their duty to hold perpetrators of domestic violence accountable, according to a new report released on Wednesday. Titled “Daunting and Dire: Impunity and Underfunded Institutions Undermine Protection of Women and Girls from Domestic Violence in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq,” the [...]

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) announced on Tuesday that Leonid Pasichnyk, the leader of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic in the occupied territory of Ukraine’s Luhansk province, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. In a press release, the SSU announced the conviction of Leonid Pasichnyk, stating he was found guilty under Articles [...]

Delhi court sentenced renowned Indian activist, Medha Patkar to five months imprisonment on Monday in a defamation case filed by the current Delhi lieutenant governor, Vinai Kumar Saxena in 2001. Patkar is the founding member of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada River Movement) started in 1985 in states including Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent organisation that defends the rights of journalists, called Tuesday for the release of Htet Aung, a Myanmar journalist who had been sentenced to five years imprisonment with hard labour. The sentence of Htet Aung followed the publication of his article for the DMG Newsroom titled “Calls for [...]

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, is arbitrarily detained for espionage and should be released on Tuesday. The submission criticized the Russian government for the serious unjustifiable deprivation of his freedom and rights during the criminal procedure. The UN working group on arbitrary detention found that [...]

Spain’s Tribunal Supremo on Monday upheld arrest warrants for Catalonia’s former leader Carles Puigdemont and other Catalan separatists charged with embezzlement, ruling that a recent amnesty law does not relieve them of their penal responsibility. The politicians, currently living in exile, are facing charges connected to the organization of the 2017 Catalan independence referendum, which [...]

The Exit and Entry Administration of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) announced Monday the issuance of a new travel permit for non-Chinese citizens of Hong Kong and Macau to facilitate the travelling procedures for those entering mainland China. According to a statement published by China’s National Immigration Administration, the new Mainland travel permit will [...]