Indonesia notified nine convicted of drug traffickers–four Nigerian men, two Australian men, a Filipino woman, and one man each from Brazil, France and Indonesia–that their executions will be carried out within 72 hours. The executions will be carried out by firing squad in Besi prison on Nusakambangan Island at the earliest on Tuesday or Wednesday. [...]
The US Department of State (DOS) released a statement Thursday condemning the imprisonment of human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev and calling for his release. Aliyev was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison and a three-year ban from holding public office for on charges of illegal entrepreneurship, tax evasion and abuse of power. [...]
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday expressed concern over attacks in Mali in which members of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) were specifically targeted, resulting in numerous casualties. So far, the UN has reported that several separate attacks have been orchestrated against peacekeepers in the region. On Thursday [...]
The United Nations (UN) on Friday reported that the intense fighting in Yemen has claimed the lives of approximately 551 civilians, 115 of which were children. Rupert Colville, the spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) , noted that this death toll only calculated civilian casualties and that the [...]
Nineteen eurozone creditors held a meeting in Latvia on Friday to demand the completion of the economic reform program agreed to by Greece necessary to avoiding a Grecian default or exit from the euro. An agreement between Greece and the creditors in February set an end-of-April deadline for the production of a comprehensive agreed-upon list [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement on Thursday denouncing as a violation of the laws of war an airstrike led by the Saudi Arabian coalition that led to the destruction of a humanitarian warehouse in Yemen earlier this month. The attack was said to be executed by the Saudi coalition, which includes Bahrain, Egypt, [...]
A US government source on Friday revealed that Shaker Aamer , a Saudi citizen Saudi citizen and former UK resident detained at Guantanamo Bay , is expected to be released in June after recent calls from the UK government. Aamer and his counsel had asked a federal judge last week to release him on the [...]
The German Parliament on Friday approved a resolution declaring the killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces during World War I a “genocide.” The resolution’s approval, which coincides with the centenary of the start of the killings, was led by President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert , who believes that Turkey [...]
A Romanian court sentenced former Senior Judge Stan Mustata to 10 years and eight months in prison on Friday for granting favorable verdicts to defendants in exchange for money. Mustata was convicted of six counts of taking bribes from October 2013 until his arrest in April 2014. Mustata claims to have been inebriated when some [...]
The systematic anti-foreigner language used in British tabloids for decades, and a recent article in The Sun calling migrants “cockroaches,” moved the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to take action on Friday, calling on UK officials and the media to curb incitement to hatred. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein called on EU countries to take [...]
