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South Korean law enforcement have apprehended 77 individuals as part of an investigation of a suspected network of industrial espionage, per exclusive reporting from the Yonhap news agency. The individuals were allegedly involved in 35 distinct incidents, exposing the concerning magnitude of...
Chang Weiping, a Chinese human rights lawyer, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on Thursday shortly after he was found guilty of “subversion of State Power.” He is known for defending marginalized groups and those facing discrimination, and for speaking out about his treatment at...
The United Nations secretary general for humanitarian affairs said in a series of UN reports on Friday that Ukraine’s humanitarian crisis has been made severely worse by the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant’s destruction. The UN’s top official in Ukraine, Denise Brown, says that immediate...
Canada’s foreign interference special rapporteur David Johnston resigned on Thursday amid accusations of partiality, citing the intense politicization of his appointment and work. Johnston, a former governor-general of Canada, was appointed as the country’s first special rapporteur on foreign...
The UK Parliament’s Human Rights Committee on Sunday condemned the country’s proposed Illegal Migration Bill in their latest report and urged the government “not to breach its legal obligations to refugees, children and victims of modern slavery, and to play its part in the global system of...
Police Scotland announced on Sunday that former first minister Nicola Sturgeon was arrested in relation to party finances. In the statement they said that “a 52-year-old woman has today, Sunday, 11 June, 2023, been arrested as a suspect in connection with the ongoing investigation into the...
The Nigerian Department of State Services (DSS), Nigeria’s top intelligence agency, announced Saturday that Governor of the Nigerian Central Bank Godwin Emefiele was arrested. The arrest comes just hours after recently elected President Bola Ahmed Tinubu suspended Emefiele from his position...
French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed pension reform survived opposition attempts to block the repeal bill following the National Assembly’s vote on Thursday. The controversial reform, which seeks to replace the current 42 pension schemes with a single, universal points-based system, has...
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the Republic of Korea decided to investigate cases of human rights violations in the process of foreign adoption on Thursday. This is the second decision to investigate such cases, following the first decision in December last year.
The applicants...
Thousands of protesters gathered in Belgrade on Friday in opposition to the Serbian President, Aleksandar Vucic. The peaceful demonstrators, whose action followed shortly after two mass shootings in the country, called for Vucic to resign by next week, threatening to turn to “radicalization” if...
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