Thousands of people marched in Tel Aviv on Thursday to demand a ceasefire and hostage deal, as well as a revived Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The march was led by Standing Together, a joint Jewish-Palestinian peace movement in Israel. Alon Lee-Green, the group’s Jewish co-director, said the march, composed of both Jewish and Palestinian protestors, was [...]
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Waheed Rehman Para, a youth leader of the People’s Democratic Party, said Friday that a notice from the district election officer in Jammu and Kashmir is an “attempt to throttle the vote.” The election official had previously served a notice to Para over remarks he made during a poll rally, according to reports from local [...]
Ukraine parliament passes bill allowing convicts to join army for parole
The Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) passed a bill on Wednesday that allows some convicts to enlist in the army and be eligible for conditional release from serving their sentences, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said. The bill still needs to be signed by president Zelensky to become law. Draft law 11079-1 amends the Criminal, Criminal Procedure, Criminal [...]
The Hong Kong Court of Appeal granted an interlocutory injunction Wednesday to restrain any activities associated with the protest song “Glory to Hong Kong”. The Secretary for Justice Paul Lam highlighted that the injunction balanced the interest of national security and freedom of speech by narrowing the scope to activities with seditious intent and providing exemptions [...]
Updated: An Evolving Explainer of the Trump Hush Money Trial
The 2024 US presidential election will be historic on several fronts. It will be the first rematch between presidential candidates since Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower faced down Democrat Adlai Stevenson in 1956. At 81 and 77 respectively, incumbent candidate Joe Biden and his adversary Donald Trump are the oldest major party frontrunners in the history [...]
At least four synagogues and a museum in New York received bomb threats on Saturday, with none of the claims considered credible according to city officials and the NYPD. Three of the bomb threats were reported in Manhattan, directed at Congregation Rodeph Sholom on West 83rd street, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah on West 30th street [...]
HRW: France should press China on alleged crimes against humanity during Xi visit
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday issued a statement urging French President Emmanuel Macron to speak out against the Chinese government’s alleged crimes against humanity and increasing human rights repression during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Paris, which is scheduled to take place between May 6-7. Maya Wang, acting China director at HRW argued [...]
Canada police arrest three men from India over murder of Sikh separatist
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on Friday announced the arrest of 3 Indian men suspected of murdering prominent Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. The arrested individuals have been identified as Karanpreet Singh (28), Kamalpreet Singh (22), and Karan Brar (22), all of whom were residing in Edmonton, Alberta at the time of the arrest. [...]
ICC Prosecutor Office calls for threats against the court and its officials to cease
The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) released on Saturday a statement regarding unspecified threats towards the office and its officials, calling for such attempts to impede or influence its investigations to “cease immediately.” The OTP is an independent organ of the ICC, and its mandate involves “examining situations under the jurisdiction [...]
India Supreme Court reserves 1/3 of seats in Bar Association committee for women
India’s Supreme Court (SC) reserved Thursday one-third of the seats in the executive committee of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) for women. The SCBA is an Indian bar association comprising practicing lawyers who work in the Supreme Court of India. The SC held that the SCBA has to establish reservations and guidelines for its [...]