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  • Published on Jun 7, 2026

    Beyond The Cell Door

    Abstract On 4 March 2026, the Ghanaian government laid the Community Service Bill, 2026, before Parliament, marking the most significant proposed reform to Ghana’s criminal sentencing architecture since independence. On 29 May 2026, the Chairman of the …

    Source: Ghana MMA - Neutral
  • Published on May 28, 2026

    Rights group calls for reform, Uncat ratification after Taiping prison findings

    More than 100 inmates at Taiping prison were assaulted by about 60 wardens during a relocation exercise in January 2025, resulting in the death of one detainee. (Facebook pic) PETALING JAYA: A human rights group has called on the government to overhaul …

    Source: Free Malaysia Today - Indeterminate
  • Published on May 27, 2026

    KYRGYZSTAN: Secret police deport Reform Adventist pastor

    On 9 April, officers who said they were from the National Security Committee (NSC) secret police deported 66-year-old Pastor Pavel Shreider, leader of the now-banned True and Free Reform Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kyrgyzstan. "They put him in a …

    Source: Forum 18 - Pending
  • Published on May 21, 2026

    Why is Ben Gvir still in the government?

    The scene, captured in a video posted on social media by the unabashedly fascist Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, is atrocious, obscene. We see him as he struts alongside captive flotilla activists who are forced to kneel before him, …

    Source: The Times of Israel - Right-wing
  • Published on Jun 5, 2026

    Lawsuit seeks to halt Tennessee law making illegal immigration a state crime

    The ACLU and National Immigration Law Center on Thursday filed a legal challenge to a new Tennessee law that makes it a crime for immigrants without legal status to enter or remain in the state.  The federal lawsuit, filed on behalf of two noncitizens who …

    Source: Tennessee Lookout - Left-wing
  • Published on May 21, 2026

    Members of Palestine aid flotilla begin to be released

    The 428 activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) detained by Israel are being released, the group announced on Thursday (Apr. 21). Some of the flotilla members who were detained will board a flight to Istanbul, Turkey. Among them are four Brazilians …

    Source: Agencia Brasil - Pro-Government
  • Published on Jun 4, 2026

    DHS Plan Could Strip Work Permits From Nearly 1 Million Migrants

    The Trump administration moved to further limit legal immigration Thursday, with a new rule proposal that would place more restrictions on who can work legally in the United States and for how long. In a yet unpublished Federal Register filing, the …

    Source: Newsweek - Left-wing
  • Published on Jun 4, 2026

    ICE detainee who spoke out about conditions in Moshannon was punished, transferred

    DECATUR TOWNSHIP — An ICE detainee was put in solitary confinement, then transferred out of state after the private contractor that runs a Pennsylvania detention center claimed he encouraged others to refuse meals to protest conditions, a report obtained …

    Source: Spotlight PA - Pennsylvania - Neutral
  • Published on Jun 4, 2026

    Tajani acquits Netanyahu and blames Ben Gvir alone – what about the others?

    “Statements are one thing, and facts are another,” says Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani. If he were speaking about the Italian government’s stance toward Israeli crimes, one could not help but agree with him and appreciate his belated but highly on …

    Source: Il Manifesto - Left-wing
  • Published on Jun 4, 2026

    By ‘justifying’ border killings, has the home minister conceded the Indian narrative?

    On June 2, with a border conference six days away, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed spoke to reporters at the Secretariat and dismantled decades of Bangladeshi advocacy in a single sweep. His statement was deceptively simple: “If any foreign force kills …

    Source: Daily Star - Neutral
  • Published on May 15, 2026

    Violence and inadequate safeguards: the UN’s worrying report on torture in Italy

    Brussels – From the definition of torture to living conditions in prisons, from agreements with Libya and Albania to the situation of migrants in return centres, via government decrees and the criminalisation of work aimed at protecting human rights: the …

    Source: Eunews - Neutral
  • Published on Jun 1, 2026

    Two Syrian former officials deny civil war torture charges as trial opens in Austria

    VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — An ex-Syrian general and a former senior Syrian police officer pleaded not guilty on Monday to torturing opponents of ousted president Bashar al-Assad as their trial started in Vienna. The two face charges including torture, …

    Source: The Times of Israel - Right-wing
  • Published on Jun 3, 2026

    Risk that more survivors of torture wil be denied asylum in Ireland, as a vital service is frozen

    Spirasi, the national centre for survivors of torture, is “temporarily pausing” its “medico-legal” referral service, it has said in an email to asylum lawyers. Solicitors used to refer clients who said they had endured physical or psychological torture to …

    Source: Dublin Inquirer - Pending
  • Published on Jun 2, 2026

    Can US Shed Learned Legal Helplessness of Guantanamo’s Courts?

    On January 11, 2002, the first detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay. Nearly a quarter-century later, the United States is still struggling to bring some of them to trial. This is not simply a story about justice delayed. It is a story about decisions—legal …

    Source: Newsweek - Left-wing
  • Published on Jun 2, 2026

    Austria Begins Trial of Two Former Syrian Regime Security Officials

    Austria Begins Trial of Two Former Syrian Regime Security Officials ARK News.. A court in Vienna has begun the trial of two former officials from the security apparatus of the former Syrian regime on charges related to torture and the mistreatment of …

    Source: ARK News - Pending
  • Published on Jun 2, 2026

    Austria Opens Trial of Former Assad-Era Officer Accused of Torture

    Austria on Monday opened the trial of a former Syrian officer from the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad, in what is being described as the first case of its kind in the country. Former brigadier general Khaled al-Halabi appeared before a Vienna court on …

    Source: The Syrian Observer - Neutral
  • Published on Jun 2, 2026

    Austria Tries Assad Officers Over Raqqa Torture

    A court in Vienna, Austria, began on Monday, June 1, the trial of two former officials in the security apparatuses of the former Syrian regime, who face charges related to torturing opposition figures and committing abuses against civilians during the …

    Source: Enab Baladi - Neutral
  • Published on Jun 1, 2026

    Between 2011 and 2013: Two Syrians deny civil war torture accusations in Austria trial

    An ex-Syrian general and a former senior Syrian police officer pleaded not guilty on Monday to torturing opponents of ousted president Bashar al-Assad as their trial started in Vienna. The two face charges including torture, aggravated coercion, sexual …

    Source: RTL Today - Neutral
  • Published on Jun 1, 2026

    Two Syrians accused of torture go on trial in Austria

    Two Syrians accused of torturing opponents of the now-deposed regime of Bashar al-Assad went on trial in Vienna on Monday. An ex-Syrian general and a former senior Syrian police officer went on trial in Vienna on Monday, accused of torturing opponents of …

    Source: The Local - Austria - Pending

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