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Jimmy Lai Sentenced to 20 Years Under Hong Kong’s National Security Law

Hong Kong media entrepreneur and pro-democracy advocate...

Former Estonian Minister Kalle Laanet Found Guilty of Fraud Over Housing Claims

The Harju District Court has found former...

Former Chinese Justice Minister Sentenced to Life for $20 Million Bribery Scheme

Court finds Tang Yijun abused high office...

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South African Ex-Speaker Faces Corruption Charges Amid Resignation

Former South African Parliament Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula faces charges of corruption and money laundering, totaling 12 counts and one count respectively. She appeared in court...

Justice Department Announces Publication of Third Volume of National Firearms Commerce and Trafficking Assessment

The Justice Department today announced the publication of Firearm Trafficking Investigations, the third volume of the National Firearms Commerce and Trafficking Assessment (NFCTA), a four-part,...

Ethiopia: Military Executes Dozens in Amhara Region

Ethiopian armed forces summarily executed scores of civilians in Merawi, a town in the Amhara region in late January and February amid fighting with...

UN Body Calls on UK to End Detention of People with Disabilities

A United Nations human rights body has criticized the United Kingdom government for “involuntary, compulsory treatment and detention” of people with disabilities inside and...

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Announces Surge of Resources to Fight Violent Crime in Three Additional Cities

Today, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced that the Justice Department is adding three new cities to its Criminal Division’s Violent Crime Initiative (VCI),...

Joint Statement on the U.S.-Spain Central America Working Group

The following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and Spain on the occasion of the Central America Working...

Colombia, Panama Fail to Protect Migrants in Darién Gap

Colombia and Panama are failing to effectively protect and assist hundreds of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers in the Darién Gap and to...

Gun Trafficker Sentenced for Attempting to Send Firearms to Drug Cartel Members in Mexico

Yuendry Rodriguez Hilario, 29, of Cleveland, was sentenced to 13 years and four months in prison for conspiring to traffic firearms, possessing firearms in...

Harrisburg Man Sentenced To 14 ½ Years’ Imprisonment for Drug Trafficking

HARRISBURG – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on April 2, 2024, George E. Jones, age 43,...

Rwanda: Genocide Archives Released | Human Rights Watch

(Nairobi) – Human Rights Watch announced today that it is releasing a series of archives highlighting the extraordinary efforts of human rights defenders in...

Thirteen Members of a Drug Trafficking Conspiracy Involving Louisiana State Penitentiary Inmates, Former Angola Guards, and Other Sentenced to Federal Prison

United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. announced the sentencing of thirteen individuals by Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick in connection with an extensive...

Zwolle Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Illegal Possession of Methamphetamine and Firearms

SHREVEPORT, La. – Larry Maurice Malmay, 47, of Zwolle, Louisiana, was sentenced today on drug trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown. United States...

Iran: Persecution of Baha’is | Human Rights Watch

Iranian authorities’ decades-long systematic repression of Baha’is simply because they belong to a faith group amounts to the crime against humanity of persecution. Government agencies...

Mexico: Guanajuato Should Legally Recognize Trans Identities

(Mexico City) – Trans people in the Mexican state of Guanajuato suffer economic, medical, and labor discrimination, as well as other onerous legal impediments,...

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