On the 7th of October, the Athens Appeals Court announced its verdict for 68 defendants, along with ruling Golden Dawn, a nazi alligned party, a criminal organisation. The declaration was met with a cheering crowd of over ten thousand people, politicians, activists, antifascists and civilians. Verdicts included running a criminal
The U.S. Supreme Court has made headlines after preventing a controversial law from being passed in the state of Louisiana. The Louisiana law threatened to limit women’s access to safe abortion procedures by mandating doctors to obtain admission privileges to operate in local hospitals. These are privileges that doctors have
The law prohibiting FGM passed from the Sudanese council of ministers and is expected to also pass in the sovereign council. This will enact it as law, with a punishment of up to three years imprisonment for those caught performing the procedure. The practice is rampant in the country, with
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as part of its modernization program, has banned the death penalty for crimes committed by minors. The decision made by King Salman followed the announcement that flogging will also be banned. Capital punishment is a long-standing practice in the kingdom, with it being part of
The landmark trial of an Iraqi man, identified as Taha al-J, has begun today in Frankfurt. The accused is facing several charges related to the torture of a mother and child belonging to the Yazidi community, which resulted in the child’s death. He is believed, along with his wife, a
In the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, with every country preoccupied with protecting its citizens and maintaining order, Hungary has silently become a dictatorship. This calculated move by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán came at a time where little can be done to stop him. At the end of March, the National
Amid the endless stream of bad news, old and new, that has been surfacing in recent weeks, the U.K. government has made an ambitious and very welcome proposal to plant several million trees every year. The pledge has been moving forward, since it was included in the budget that was
Origins Of The Crisis In late February, following Turkey’s announcement opening its borders towards continental Europe, thousands of migrants and refugees made their way to the Greek border. This resulted in violence on both sides, with Greece and European Union claiming a coordinated attack and Turkey an overwhelmed system. Both
With the new coronavirus (COVID-19) having spread in several dozen countries and claimed thousands of lives, the pressure is increasing not far from the epicenter of the disaster, in Xinjiang province of China. Since the disease emerged at the end of last year in Wuhan, it has since reached every
On the 6th of January, prominent Kashmiri leaders and former ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti were charged under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act. In addition, the detention of Ali Muhammad Sagar and Sartaj Madni, also senior politicians in the region, has been extended under the same act.
