An Egyptian court on Saturday rejected the appeal of ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons regarding their conviction of and sentence for corruption. As the three have already served their sentence, however, it is not likely that they will be imprisoned again. They will be required to pay a fine of 125 million [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday released a report saying that Houthi authorities in Yemen have arbitrarily detained at least 35 people in the country’s capital, Sanaa. The rights group further states that the individuals have been in custody for over a year, and that several appear to have been held for their connections to [...]

Arizona State Senator John Kavanagh introduced Senate Bill 1054 on Thursday, which if passed would make it illegal to make a video recording of law enforcement activity within 20 feet without the officer’s permission. The bill would also authorize police officers to order occupants of private property to stop recording if they believe the recording [...]

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was arrested Friday in Los Mochis, Mexico in a military raid conducted by the Mexican government that left 5 suspects dead and one Mexican official inured. Guzman escaped Mexico’s highest security prison, Altiplano, through a tunnel on July 11. In the early morning raid, Mexican authorities detained Guzman along with six [...]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday warned that the use of cluster bombs by a Saudi-led coalition against neighborhoods in Yemen may amount to a war crime. Cluster bombs spread bomblets over a wide area, many of which do not immediately explode, allowing the bomblets to kill or maim civilians long after a conflict ends. [...]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday called for nine new amendments to the US Constitution in an effort to shrink the size of the federal government. Speaking at a political event in Austin, Texas, Abbott cited the intent of the founders in calling for a “Convention of the States” to cure the problems of the [...]

US President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed a bill that would have repealed his signature health care law. The president explained that the proposed bill “would not only repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) , but would reverse the significant progress we have made in improving health care in America.” He further stated [...]

The last Kuwaiti held at Guantanamo, Faiz Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari, has been repatriated to his home country, the US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Friday. The Periodic Review Board (PRB) determined in September that “continued law of war detention of Al-Kandari does not remain necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat to the security [...]

Ethiopian government security forces have killed 140 protesters in the Oromia region despite December reports of only five deaths, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday. The protesters began demonstrations in November against the government’s plan to expand the country’s capitol, Addis Ababa, onto farmland and property occupied by approximately 2 million Oromia people. HRW also [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Friday encouraged the Yemen government to reconsider its decision to expel the country’s human rights representative. The government claimed that George Abu al-Zulof, the human rights representative, was biased and failed in assessing the country’s human rights situation. Zeid said: Our job is not [...]