Two Rwandan police officers were sentenced Thursday to 20 years in jail for the murder of a Transparency International anti-corruption activist. The motivation for the killing was to prevent Gustave Makonene from revealing the role the two men played in mineral smuggling across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border. Transparency International expressed happiness that [...]
The UK High Court of Justice on Thursday rejected a claim that procedural regulations, known as CLA(P) Regulation 33, unlawfully restrict domestic violence victims’ access to legal aid. Under the regulations, domestic violence victims seeking to obtain legal aid must first provide specific types of evidence. The claimants argued these regulations thwarted previous legislation, which [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona on Thursday made permanent an injunction that requires the state to issue driver’s licenses to immigrants who were brought illegally to the US as children. The young people, known as Dreamers , were granted a deferral of deportation by President Barack Obama’s 2012 [...]
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Senate on Friday amended the country’s electoral law to permit the 2016 presidential election to go forth as scheduled, without the requirement of conducting a census. The change comes after four days of violent nationwide protests resulted in dozens of deaths . The government argues that the census is [...]
Thailand’s military-appointed legislature on Friday voted to impeach former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra , banning her from office for five years for corruption in a scheme to subsidize rice farmers within the country. In addition to the impeachment, Yingluck is also facing up to 10 years in prison on criminal charges of negligence of duty [...]
Amnesty International (AI) on Friday criticized the government of Mexico for their “failed” investigation of the army in the “enforced disappearance” of 43 students on September 26, claiming that it was incomplete and insufficient, after DNA collected from a mass grave of burned bodies proved inconclusive at this time. Although Mexico’s Attorney General Jesus Murillo [...]
France’s top court, the Conseil Constitutionnel on Friday upheld a decision from 2013 to strip Franco-Moroccan terrorist Ahmed Sahnouni el-Yaacoubi of his French nationality following a conviction for conspiracy to commit terrorist acts. Sahnouni, a naturalized citizen since 2003, appealed to the Conseil Constitutionnel arguing that while France’s civil code permits the government to strip [...]
The US House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would ban abortions supported by federal funding. The bill explicitly denies any health plans or facilities that are federally funded from expending tax-payer funds from being used for abortion services. Voting on the bill was timed to coincide with the 42nd anniversary of Roe [...]
At a news conference before the Associated Press on Thursday, activist Yunana Shibkau and Goran Sluiter, an attorney for the International Criminal Court (ICC) , announced they have video evidence of 2015 Nigerian presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari instigating and inciting violence after he lost the 2011 elections, which resulted in the death of some 800 [...]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday released a statement saying that at least 5,086 people have been killed since the conflict in Ukraine began in April 2014, but expressed concerns that the real figure may be much higher. At least 262 people were killed in the past 9 days [...]
