The Supreme Court of India on Thursday, granted bail to Javed Gulam Nabi Shaikh, who has been held in custody for four years without trial under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). Justices J B Pardiwala and Ujjal Bhuyan criticized the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for delaying the framing of charges against Shaikh. The court was [...]
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) parliamentary assembly on Wednesday called for Russia’s immediate and unconditional withdrawal from the occupied Georgian territories of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali/South Ossetia in its 31st annual session that took place in Bucharest from June 29 to July 3, 2024. The OSCE parliamentary assembly’s demand for Russia to [...]
The ICJ unanimously decided to allow seven states to intervene in the ongoing genocide case brought by The Gambia against Myanmar on Wednesday. The countries granted permission to participate in the proceedings are Maldives, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. The court found their declarations of intervention admissible under Article 63 of [...]
US Democratic congressman Joe Morelle announced plans Wednesday to attempt to reverse this week’s US Supreme Court ruling on former US President Donald Trump’s immunity claims. He said in a statement: I am introducing a constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court’s catastrophic decision and ensure no president is above the law. This amendment will [...]
German authorities on Wednesday arrested five individuals on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes. The suspects, four stateless Syrian Palestinians and one Syrian citizen, are accused of killing and torturing civilians during the Syrian civil war. The Syrian Civil War began in 2011 as part of the Arab Spring, with protests against President [...]
The UN Human Rights spokesperson expressed grave concern on Tuesday over the sentencing of 10 Cambodian environmental activists to prison terms for “plotting” and “insulting the King.” The statement came in response to the sentencing of 10 activists connected with the award-winning human rights and environmentalist group Mother Nature. According to local media, Mother Nature [...]
Personal photos of Australian children are being misused to power artificial intelligence (AI) tools, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday. According to the report, these pictures are obtained from the web without the children’s or their families’ knowledge or consent and compiled in a data set that companies use to train their AI tools. HRW, [...]
The Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ), an organisation led by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, and Centre for the Enforcement of Human Rights International (CEHRI), a non-profit organisation that advocates for liability for international crimes, filed a case in Austria calling for investigations into sexual violence and murder in Ukraine by Russian soldiers on Monday. [...]
Aydos Sadykov, a renowned critic of Kazakhstan’s political regime, passed away two weeks after surviving an assassination attempt in Kyiv, his wife announced on Tuesday. His wife Natalia Sadykova blamed Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for the assassination, stating that Sadykov’s death is on Tokayev’s conscience. In response to the assassination attempt, President Tokayev emphasized the [...]
Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Law and Justice, Azam Nazeer Tarar, dismissed on Tuesday the recommendations of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) concerning the release of the country’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Tarar responded to the report released by WGAD in a statement to the state broadcaster PTV, stating that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf [...]
