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    Jurist South Korea top court rules against impeachment of minister responsible for deadly Halloween crowd surge in Seoul

    The Constitutional Court of South Korea on Tuesday rejected the National Assembly’s request to impeach Interior and Safety Minister Lee Sang-min, who some say failed to prevent and botched the response to a deadly crush in Seoul last year that killed 159 people. In South Korea, the...
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    Jurist India police arrest 74 Rohingya refugees in northern region for alleged illegal entry and residence

    The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh state police conducted an operation Monday resulting in the arrest of 74 Rohingya Muslims who had allegedly entered India illegally from Myanmar and Bangladesh and settled in various districts in the western parts of the state. The ATS...
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    Jurist HRW: Ethiopia must release opposition figures from arbitrary detention

    Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a statement on Monday calling on Ethiopian authorities to immediately release seven “arbitrarily detained” opposition figures. The seven detained individuals belong to the formerly banned Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). HRW claims their detainment is politically...
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    Jurist Anti-LGBTQ+ protest held in Botswana capital after decriminalization bill introduced

    Hundreds of people protested on Saturday in Botswana’s capital Gaborone against a bill seeking to make same-sex relations legal. Botswana’s parliament was forced to introduce the bill legalizing same-sex relations pursuant to a 2019 ruling of the High Court of Botswana, which held that laws...
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    Jurist UNESCO warns Russia that strikes on Ukraine World Heritage Sites may breach international law

    UNESCO released a statement Sunday condemning Russian strikes on Odesa, Ukraine, which allegedly damaged several World Heritage Sites, including the first Orthodox Christian church built in Odesa, the Transfiguration Cathedral. Ukraine is home to eight locations on the World Heritage List...
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    Jurist INTERPOL and Europol break up EU migrant smuggling network

    INTERPOL and Europol announced Monday that the organizations broke up a migrant smuggling ring that brought migrants from Cuba to the European Union (EU). 62 arrests were made in cooperation with the governments of Germany, Greece, Northern Macedonia, Spain and Serbia. The investigation into...
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    Jurist Russia sentences Navalny ally to 9 years in prison for ‘participation in an extremist community’

    A Russian court found “Team Navalny” member Vadim Ostanin guilty of ‘participation in an extremist community’ and sentenced him to 9 years in prison on Monday. Ostanin was a member of “Team Navalny”, an activist organization associated with Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Team Navalny...
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    Jurist UN experts raise concerns over forced disappearances among Libya migrants

    Several United Nations (UN) experts raised concerns Friday over an incident in Libya where 120 migrants and refugees were allegedly taken to an undisclosed location and were then detained without legal counsel. The experts sent a letter in May apprising the Libyan government of their concerns...
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    Jurist Singapore police to investigate discrimination and bullying after claims by now-deceased officer

    Singapore Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugan asked the Singapore Police Force (SPF) on Friday to investigate allegations of racial discrimination and workplace bullying in the force made by a Singaporean police officer who was found dead the same day. The officer, 35-year-old Uvaraja...
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    Jurist Brazil president signs order tightening civilian access to firearms

    Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced that he signed an executive order on Friday tightening gun laws, stating that only the police and army should be well-armed. The aim of the executive order is to slow Brazil’s rise in civilian gun ownership, reversing the policies of his...
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