US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday announced the revocation of US visas for eight of Brazil’s 11 Supreme Court justices, in what officials described as part of a broader effort to support former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is currently fighting prosecution for his alleged attempt to overturn the 2022 election. The announcement [...]

A Moscow court fined the bookstore Falalster 800,000 rubles (approximately $10,000) and its founder, Boris Kupriyanov, 100,000 rubles (approximately $1,300) on the charges of LGBTQA+ “propaganda,” according to local media. Charges were reportedly based on the bookstore selling books like More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera, Satanic Feminism by Per Faxneld, Fruit of Knowledge by [...]

A UN expert on Thursday condemned Israel’s violence on Palestinian women and girls, calling it a “femi-genocide,” and accusing the Israeli government of deliberate killing with the “intent to destroy” the continuity of the Palestinian people. Reem Alsalem, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against Women and Girls, called Israel’s actions “so extreme” that [...]

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk called for urgent accountability and a halt to escalating violence in the southern Syrian city of Suweida on Friday, following credible reports of mass killings, arbitrary executions, looting, and the forced displacement of civilians. Speaking at a press briefing in Geneva, UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani emphasized [...]

The UK announced new sanctions Friday against Russia, directed at three units of the Russian military intelligence agency GRU and 18 military intelligence officers “responsible for spreading chaos and disorder on Putin’s orders” and malicious cyber activity over many years, according to local media. According to the UK, the GRU “routinely uses cyber and information [...]

A Russian military court sentenced a prisoner to an additional six years of imprisonment and a fine of 49,000 rubles (approximately $600) on the charges of public calls to terrorism and the spread of “war fakes,” according to local media. The charges against the prisoner, a man named Andrey Voronin, are based on his conversations [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday denounced new legislative amendments in Russia that supposedly strengthen the fight against “extremism.” The organization emphasized that new bills allow groups to be declared “extremist” without a court decision and penalize searching for or accessing “extremist materials” online. Amnesty warned that these bills could pave the way for the ruthless persecution [...]

UN experts on Thursday warned that the Peruvian Congress’ approval of a bill granting amnesty to persons who committed serious human rights violations during the internal armed conflict between 1980 and 2000 is contrary to international law. The UN experts highlighted that individuals who committed grave human rights violations during Peru’s internal armed conflict would [...]

A Russian military court sentenced a defected soldier to 23 years of imprisonment and imposed a fine of 590,000 rubles (approximately $7,500), according to local media. Anton Hozhaev faced charges of “performance management” of a terrorist organization, treason, legalization of funds obtained by criminal means, and defection.  Hozhaev attended military school until he resigned in [...]

A member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal team allegedly delivered threats to Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), stating that, unless the ICC withdrew arrest warrants for Israeli officials, Khan and the court would be “destroyed,” a news outlet reported Tuesday. British-Israeli lawyer and Nicholas Kaufman allegedly delivered the [...]