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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...
Spain’s Tribuno 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...
The World Benchmarking Alliance found that 90 percent of the world’s 2,000 most influential companies do not meet social expectations relating to human rights, in its report published on Tuesday. The Alliance called on policymakers and investors to ensure companies are being held accountable for...
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...
A group representing families of Libya’s Abu Salim Prison Massacre victims protested Monday on the 28th anniversary of the killings over the failure to achieve justice in the case. The association urged “that the secrets of the crime be revealed, justice be established, retribution be imposed...
Australia’s Adelaide Magistrates Court found South Australian legislator Fraser Ellis guilty of four counts of deception on Monday for misuse of the accommodation allowance available to members of parliament.
Fraser Ellis, an independent MP representing the Narungga electoral district in the...
Laws criminalizing coercive control came into force in New South Wales (NSW), Australia on Monday. Section 54D of the NSW’s Crimes Act 1900 criminalizes coercive conduct and abusive behavior against intimate partners by attaching a maximum penalty of seven years imprisonment upon conviction...
A regional court in Halle, Germany fined Björn Höcke, a prominent member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, €16,900 on Monday for publicly using a slogan associated with the Nazi party. Höcke posted a video on X (formerly Twitter) announcing the fine.
During an AfD event in December...
Two days of UN-organized talks on the situation in Afghanistan began in Doha on Sunday, marking the first time the Taliban was present. Human rights activists expressed anger and concern over the decision to exclude women from the meeting and to consider the Taliban as the representatives of the...
The European Commission announced preliminary findings Monday that social media company Meta was in violation of the Digital Markets Act over its “pay or consent” advertising model.
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, introduced a new option for EU Facebook and Instagram users to choose between a...
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