Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

Newsletter
13 Jan, 2021

Courts and Justice

‘No gleaming success’: Special Tribunal for Lebanon to close because of funding shortage

The Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), established to try those who carried out the 2005 attack which killed former prime minister of Lebanon, Rafik Hariri,…

13 June, 2021

Trial in absentia for the murder of Italian academic Giulio Regeni in Egypt in 2016

Giulio Regeni’s beaten and bloodied body was discovered in February 2016, dumped in a ditch at the side of a road heading to Alexandria.

25 May, 2021

Spain/Around 8,000 people have crossed into Ceuta

Dozens have also reached Melilla, Spain’s other enclave. The European Union is urging Morocco to stop them. The Spanish government’s already sent back many of…

20 May, 2021

The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States

The commission will look at the public debate for and against Supreme Court reform.

19 May, 2021

Jerusalem: Deadline for 4 Palestinian families 

The 4 families, along with 8 others, have been facing eviction orders from Israeli courts who ruled the Palestinians should evacuate their homes to a…

6 May, 2021

The Hague: The case of Dominic Ongwen

Ongwen was amongst thousands of children kidnapped by the LRA to become child soldiers. But Ongwen rose through the ranks to become deputy to the…

6 May, 2021

Johannesburg/Cyril Ramaphosa testified before a judicial enquiry

Ramaphosa was Zuma’s deputy from 2014 until Zuma was forced to step down in early 2018.

28 April, 2021

Turkey/Trial of Selahattin Demirtas

Party members have been imprisoned, including former MPs and mayors and the party’s former co-chairs.

26 April, 2021

The Hague/Hearings on DRC

Kinshasa and Kampala since then have failed to agree on the compensation. Kinshasa is demanding $10-billion.

20 April, 2021