The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Monday celebrated the 150th ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as Guyana became the latest country ratify the document. Maria Soledad Cisternas Reyes, on behalf of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, stated that such [...]
Bangladesh officials on Monday approved the Child Marriage Prevention Act of 2014, a law that sets a two year jail term for any person who marries a girl under the age of 18. The law, which was approved during a Cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina , sets the minimum age of [...]
An Afghanistan court of appeals on Monday sentenced five men to death for their involvement in the armed robbery and gang-rape of a family outside Kabul. Two other defendants, out of the original group of seven defendants who allegedly stopped the victims’ car while dressed as police officers, were sentenced to 20 years in prison [...]
Chinese writer Huang Zerong, known also by his pen name Tie Liu, was detained by Chinese authorities Sunday morning for allegedly publishing articles critical of Communist Party propaganda chief Liu Yunshan . According to the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, the 81-year-old writer was “criminally detained on charges of ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble.'” [...]
An Egyptian court Monday sentenced Mohamed Badie , leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood , to life in prison and 14 others to 25 years in prison for murder and inciting violence. The case against Badie, the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, stems from violence that broke out in the Giza neighborhood of Cairo [...]
Prominent Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah , was released on bail Monday as he faces retrial for organizing an unauthorized protest. Abdel-Fattah’s lawyer said his client was released on bail of 5,000 Egyptian pounds (USD $714) and that he and two other activists will leave prison Tuesday. Abdel-Fattah, a secular activist, was charged in [...]
An Islamabad court on Monday ordered police to register a first information report (FIR) against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and other cabinet members for killings of protesters on August 31 in Islamabad’s Red Zone. The FIR comes as a response to the political party Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) filing an application to the court requesting [...]
Israel’s Supreme Court on Monday postponed the start of the prison sentence for former prime minister Ehud Olmert pending appeal on his conviction of corruption charges. Olmert was sentenced to six years in prison for his role in a bribery scandal while serving as mayor of Jerusalem. Olmert will remain free until a decision on [...]
The Supreme Court of North Korea on Sunday sentenced an American man to six years of hard labor for committing “hostile acts” against the country. The court convicted 24-year-old California resident Matthew Todd Miller of entering the country on April 10th illegally to commit espionage, a charge that can carry a sentence of five to [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday released a report detailing recommendations and warnings regarding the use of body-worn cameras by police. The report, authored by the DOJ’s Community Oriented Policing Services office, consisted of a survey of 254 law enforcement agencies and how they implement the technology into everyday encounters with the public. [...]
