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The Delhi High Court rejected Tuesday former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s bail pleas in relation to the money laundering and corruption allegations made by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), both in connection with the Delhi excise policy scam case. The bench, led by Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, ruled [...]

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster on Tuesday signed into law a gender-affirming healthcare ban for transgender minors. House Bill (HB) 4624, known as the Help Not Harm bill, prohibits physicians, mental health providers and other healthcare professionals from “knowingly” providing gender-transition procedures to individuals under eighteen years of age. HB 4624 defines “gender transition procedures” [...]

Amnesty International released an alerting report on Tuesday, highlighting the arbitrary use of the Mexican criminal justice system to criminalize women human rights defenders. The report titled “Perseguidas: Criminalización de mujeres defensoras de derechos humanos en México” (Persecuted: criminalization of women human rights defenders in Mexico) focuses on the cases of three women: Ana Lorena [...]

New Zealand MP David MacLeod admitted in an address to the press on Tuesday, that he failed to declare 19 candidate campaign donations to the Electoral Commission. The failure has led New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to stand down David MacLeod from his role as Chairperson of the Environment Committee. In addressing the failure [...]

Amnesty International said technology is contributing to the growing trend of human rights violations at borders in a research briefing released on Tuesday. The briefing documents systemic exploitation of new technologies by state and non-state actors and calls for more stringent regulation of development and deployment. Invasive technologies violate numerous human rights, including the right to [...]

The first flights arrived on Tuesday after the Australian and New Zealand governments both initiated assisted departures for their nationals in New Caledonia. The evacuations follow the protests and political unrest in the French Territory that has seen at least four deaths, nearly 200 arrests and multiple injuries. New Zealand Foreign Minister, Winston Peters, confirmed [...]

A Greek judge on Tuesday dropped the charges against nine Egyptian men involved in a 2023 migrant boat wreck off Pylos that killed at least 82 people because the court did not have jurisdiction to hear the case, as the sinking happened in international waters. This sinking incident shocked the European Union’s border protection and [...]

Israeli Minister of Communication Shlomo Karhi ordered the return of Associated Press (AP) equipment Tuesday after officials from the ministry seized it and took down the news organization’s live feed of northern Gaza earlier in the day. Karhi said that the defense ministry was re-examining the issue and that the equipment would be returned until [...]

A suspect on police bail for allegedly spying for Hong Kong intelligence services in the UK has been found dead in a park, Thames Valley Police reported Tuesday. Police noted that the death, which is under investigation, is “being treated as unexplained.” The police identified the deceased Matthew Trickett, aged 37, from Maidenhead, who was [...]

Pakistan’s Provincial Assembly of the Punjab passed on Monday The Punjab Defamation Bill 2024, which allows the establishment of special tribunals to try individuals who draft, publish or disseminate fake news, according to local outlet Pakistan Today. The act’s passage comes amid protests and free speech concerns from opposition parties. The official purpose of the [...]