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The South African government has refused to help an estimated 4,000 miners illegally occupying an underground mine in Stilfontein, attempting to “smoke them out” and crack down on illegal mining.
When asked whether the government would be sending any help to the miners still remaining...
The Seoul Central District Court on Friday sentenced opposition figure Lee Jae-myung to a suspended one year in prison for making false statements before the 2022 presidential elections, according to a statement published by South Korean member of Parliament Lee So-young.
The Seoul Central...
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights released its ruling in the Case of Pérez Lucas et al v. Guatemala on Thursday, finding the State responsible for the forced disappearance of four Indigenous human rights defenders in 1989.
The court determined that Guatemala violated multiple rights...
The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Edwards, on Thursday called on Ecuador to investigate and prosecute the alleged torture of its former vice president Jorge Glas.
The Special Rapporteur raised alarm over the conditions of Glas, who has shown signs of physical and psychological...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) }']ruled on Thursday that Poland violated the right to a fair trial enshrined in Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights by quashing and modifying the sentence of a prisoner who had already served the majority of his sentence.
The Polish...
The Supreme Court of India directed Friday the newly formed Jammu & Kashmir union territory government to frame a policy for the premature release of prisoners.
The Supreme Court directed the Jammu and Kashmir administration to develop a policy on the premature release of prisoners after a...
UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo told the Security Council on Tuesday that foreign parties supplying weapons are enabling the conflict in Sudan. DiCarlo stated that “Sudan is trapped in a nightmare” and called for an immediate ceasefire.
The Under-Secretary-General stressed that both...
France risks breaching the UN arms embargo on Sudan for allowing its French-manufactured military technology to be incorporated into armored personnel carriers (APCs) currently being used in war zones in Darfur, Amnesty International reported on Thursday.
The Nimr Ajban APCs used by the...
Israel’s forced displacement of civilians in Gaza could constitute a war crime, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The report alleges that Israel’s military operations have left nearly the entire population of Gaza displaced, with evacuation orders issued under conditions that...
India’s Supreme Court released a ruling on Wednesday finding that the country’s authorities cannot use demolition of properties as punishment for those accused or convicted of crimes. It set stringent guidelines against the act, also known as “bulldozer justice”, and laid out strict punishment...
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