Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

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Prisoner 345
Published on: 13 Jan, 2021

Courts and Justice

Surveillance database in Kenya

Kenyan activists are bringing to the High Court a lawsuit against the Kenyan Communication Authority, saying it is unconstitutional, and the government is using mobile ..

Published on: 10 April, 2022

‘Hotel Rwanda’ & Paul Rusesabagina’s trial

Rusesabagina, a businessman whose role in saving more than 1,000 lives during the 1994 genocide inspired the film Hotel Rwanda, was sentenced to 25 years ..

Published on: 6 April, 2022

Cheng Lei’s trial in China

Cheng Lei, a former high-profile anchor for the Chinese government’s English-language broadcaster CGTN, is facing accusations of providing state secrets or intelligence to foreigners or ..

Published on: 3 April, 2022

China denies that the new law impinges on human rights in Hong Kong

Under the Basic Law – Hong Kong’s mini-constitution – senior judges from common law jurisdictions are able to sit as non-permanent members of the Court ..

Published on: 3 April, 2022

Salah Abdeslam’s trial

Fourteen of the defendants will be present for the trial, including Abdeslam, the only surviving attacker.

Published on: 30 March, 2022

Alberto Fujimori to be released

The decision restored a humanitarian pardon granted to Fujimori on Christmas Eve in 2017 by then-President Pablo Kuczynski.    

Published on: 28 March, 2022

U.S. Supreme Court/Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination

President Joe Biden has nominated Jackson to succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer who is expected to depart the Court in late June.

Published on: 21 March, 2022

Breonna Taylor trial

Hankinson is not charged in Taylor’s shooting death but is standing trial on three lower-level felony charges for allegedly firing his service weapon wildly into ..

Published on: 22 February, 2022

Assam-police brutality claims

Assam’s main opposition party claims that a majority of those killed by police were from ethnic and religious minorities.

Published on: 21 February, 2022

The Gambia v. Myanmar

Published on: 21 February, 2022

Chile new constitution articles

Each article has to be approved by two-thirds of the convention to be included in the draft of the new constitution. About 75% of convention ..

Published on: 15 February, 2022

Aung San Suu Kyi election fraud trial

Widespread demonstrations followed the army takeover, but protests were put down with lethal force as 1,500 civilians were killed since the coup.

Published on: 14 February, 2022