The government of Serbia reversed an expulsion order Friday that would have forced a Russian woman who fled to Serbia after expressing opposition to the war in Ukraine to leave the country.... Read more »
Belarusian law students enrolled at European Humanities University are filing reports with JURIST on current circumstances in Belarus under the constitutionally-disputed presidency of Alexander Lukashenka. Katsiaryna Vasilionak files this dispatch from Vilnius,... Read more »
Chinese music student Xiaolei Wu was convicted Thursday on charges that he harassed a democracy activist at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Wu was convicted following a four-day jury... Read more »
The Colombian Ombudsman’s Office (DPC) reported Tuesday that 181 social leaders and human rights defenders were murdered in 2023. The figure dropped 16 percent from the data reported for 2022. The ombudsman’s... Read more »
Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai pleaded not guilty Tuesday to two counts of conspiring to collude with foreign forces and one count of publishing “seditious” materials, according to Hong Kong Free Press.... Read more »
The Hong Kong High Court ruled against Jimmy Lai in his challenge against the court’s jurisdiction to hear the charge of conspiracy to sedition on Friday. The court ruled that the prosecution... Read more »
A human rights activist detained for nearly three years in China, has gone on trial in Shandong province charged with “inciting subversion of state power”, Amy Hawkins reports for The Guardian. On... Read more »
An Indian national, Nikhail Gupta, has been charged by the Justice Department for his role coordinating an assassination attempt against an American Sikh separatist in New York, Murtaza Hussain reports for The... Read more »
An Idaho judge has issued a $250,000 arrest warrant for anti-government activist Ammon Bundy, the man who organized a takeover of an Oregon wildlife reserve that left one of his supporters dead,... Read more »
Sharareh Abdolhoseinzadeh is a law student and a PhD in Political Sociology. She files this from Tehran. On Friday, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an imprisoned Iranian woman, Narges... Read more »