On Friday, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Damian Williams, joined lawyers representing people detained in New York City jails in an effort to strip Mayor Eric Adams’s administration of control over Rikers Island,... Read more »
In response to adolescent overdose deaths doubling from 2019 to 2020, the White House is urging all schools to carry the emergency overdose reversal drug naloxone and train students and faculty on... Read more »
Panama’s President Laurentino Cortizo announced on Sunday that he will hold a referendum to determine the fate of a contentious mining contract. Cortizo also said late last week that he was placing... Read more »
A Montana man who repeatedly made threatening and racist phone calls to a Billings church for two years has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, ABC News reports. Joshua Leon... Read more »
Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, the Fugees rapper facing up to 20 years in prison for crimes including conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, is now claiming that one... Read more »
The UN human rights experts called upon Pakistan on Tuesday to discontinue their planned deportation of a large number of Afghans from the country. The pressure from human rights groups has increased... Read more »
The New York City Lippmann Commission on jail reform is calling on the city to create 1,500 secure beds for mentally ill detainees in hospitals outside the jails, Graham Rayman reports for... Read more »
An Israeli airstrike on Friday resulted in the death of Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and wounded six others, prompting a UN spokesperson to call for an investigation into the strike. Abdallah, a videographer... Read more »
European Parliament condemns Azerbaijan aggression in Nagorno-Karabakh, calls for sanctions – JURIST
The European Parliament adopted a resolution Thursday in support of Nagorno-Karabakh and condemning Azerbaijan’s aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh. The resolution also called on the EU to sanction Azerbaijani officials who were responsible for... Read more »
UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous called for the UN Security Council (UNSC) to intervene on Tuesday in Afghan women’s rights crisis. In a speech before the council, Bahous noted the deterioration... Read more »