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The Supreme Court of India held on Wednesday that the principle “bail is the rule and jail is the exception” applies to cases under the country’s Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). This was stated by a bench comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and K.V. Viswanathan, who granted bail to an...
Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, was released from pre-trial detention on Wednesday after spending four days in custody. Durov was detained by French authorities on Saturday at Le Bourget Airport outside Paris. His arrest was based on allegations related to violations of laws...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called Tuesday for the Taliban’s recently enacted “Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” law in Afghanistan to be repealed.
A spokesperson for Türk, Ravina Shamdasani, condemned the new law as “utterly intolerable,” demanding, “[w]e call...
At least 94 people have been arbitrarily arrested since late July for expressing public criticism of the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area (CLV), Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said in a joint statement on Wednesday. The human rights organizations believe at least 59...
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced Tuesday that it has opened criminal cases against at least seven Western journalists who illegally crossed the state border of the Russian Federation near Sudzha in the Kursk region.
The FSB stated that the journalists were charged with...
Muhyiddin Yassin, the former prime minister of Malaysia and current leader of the opposition coalition, Perikatan Nasional, was formally charged Tuesday with sedition for allegedly insulting the country’s previous monarch. This marks the first time a former prime minister has been prosecuted...
The head of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Venezuela, Juan Carlos Delpino, announced in a statement published on Monday a series of irregularities during the July 2024 presidential elections in Venezuela, questioning the electoral process and the integrity of the announced results...
Venezuela prosecutors issued a second summons to opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez on Monday for questioning regarding an opposition website that posted detailed results surrounding the disputed presidential election last month.
The website is reported to have provided detailed voting results...
A new report by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) released on Monday found that Canada’s Bill C-26 will allow the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s national cryptology agency which provides the Canadian government with technology security as well as...
Head of Libya’s unrecognized government Osama Hammad announced on Tuesday the suspension of the country’s oil exports in response to attacks and kidnappings of employees of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) amidst a broader struggle for control between rival factions.
The country has been divided...
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