Human Rights Watch (HRW) voiced alarm on Friday over the conviction of Kyrgyz whistleblower Zhoomart Karabaev, calling it a troubling example of how Kyrgyzstan’s justice system punishes those who dare to expose corruption. His case, they warn, reflects a broader pattern of retaliatory prosecutions targeting government critics. Judge Nurdin Ibraimov of the Pervomaysky District Court [...]

A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday to return a gay Guatemalan man to the US after immigration authorities unlawfully deported him to Mexico, despite a court order granting him protection from removal to Guatemala. US District Judge Brian E. Murphy found that the man, identified as OCG, had [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed deep concern on Friday over the escalating hostilities in South Sudan since February, warning that the fighting could further worsen the country’s severe humanitarian crisis. In recent weeks, fighting between the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO), along [...]

A US federal appeals court on Friday rejected a request by President Donald Trump’s administration to restart a controversial deportation policy that would send migrants to countries where they have no prior ties, including countries like Libya and El Salvador. The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied the motion by the Department [...]

US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who was previously removed to El Salvador in March in defiance of a federal court order, has been returned to the US and is now facing criminal charges. A federal grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee indicted Abrego Garcia [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14230, which had targeted the law firm Perkins Coie LLP with sweeping federal penalties. In a 102-page opinion, Judge Beryl Howell condemned the order as a flagrant abuse of executive power and an unconstitutional [...]

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warned on Friday that severe funding shortfalls are stripping away essential protections for the world’s most vulnerable refugees and leaving them increasingly exposed to abuse, poverty, forced returns to unsafe conditions, and the threat of embarking on dangerous journeys in search of safety. In the [...]

The DC federal court on Thursday blocked key parts of President Donald Trump’s sweeping March executive order that sought to impose new voting requirements nationwide and reshape federal election procedures. The challenge was brought by advocacy groups led by the League of United Latin American Citizens. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the president lacked the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday rejected a bid by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to strip deportation safeguards from roughly 350,000 Venezuelans who live and work in the US under Temporary Protected Status (TPS), according to the plaintiffs. The three-judge panel in San Francisco denied DHS’s request to [...]

A US federal judge on Thursday refused to block the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) from denying funding to projects deemed to “promote gender ideology,” saying the agency has temporarily abandoned those prohibitions and is in the midst of re-evaluating them. In a 47-page ruling, Senior US District Judge William E. Smith denied a [...]