Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

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Prisoner 345
Published on: 13 Jan, 2021

Courts and Justice

Asylum seekers to be deported from UK to Rwanda

The judge granted human rights groups permission to appeal the decision.

Published on: 12 June, 2022

Buffalo shooter hearing

Payton Gendron described himself as ‘a fascist, a white supremacist and an antisemite’.

Published on: 9 June, 2022

Chadian Wakit Tama trial

Security forces used excessive force during Wakit Tama’s protest.  

Published on: 6 June, 2022

Central African Republic’s Special Criminal Court

Human rights activists hope that this court will be a crucial instrument to end impunity.

Published on: 21 April, 2022

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