In Singapore, there are 32 offenses that could potentially warrant death sentences, 4 of these call for the mandatory death penalty, in fact, judges are not able to take into consideration mitigating circumstances when sentencing Murder, Drug Trafficking, Terrorism, and possession of unauthorized firearms, ammunition or explosives. However, since an amendment to the law in 2012, the mandatory death penalty …

Jamal Khashoggi was about to launch a campaign to discredit the use of the social network Twitter by the Saudi regime, when he was assassinated in Turkey. A New York Times investigation reveals how the social network has been infiltrated by the Saudi secret services and how troll farms, paid by the government, crush all attempts at criticism via this …

Children’s detention in Iraqi prisons and Syrian camps Since four years ISIS’s attacks have decreased, however the number of Children detained in Iraqi prisons increase drastically. The main reason relies on the fact that children are treated as criminals, since the minimum age to engage criminal responsibility is nine years old. In addition of the extreme young age of the …

On the 19th of January 2022, the new European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) replacing the EASO started its work under the new pact on migration and asylum. Its main purpose will be to strive for uniformity within the EU of the reception standards and enhance a fairer and faster decision making by the member states in the asylum’s applications. …

On Wednesday, January 19, Israel police has forcibly evicted a Palestinian family of 15 people from their home in Sheikh Jarrah, a controversial and predominantly Arab neighbourhood in East Jerusalem bordering the Old City and West Jerusalem. The latter is a neighbourhood situated in East Jerusalem and it has always been at the core of the Israel-Palestinian dispute. The eviction, …

            The Pegasus spyware is a system designed to invigilate the users’ activities via smartphones and mobile devices. Currently, due to increasing tensions regarding unfair use of the system, the security and data protection of citizens have been challenged. Among the Pegasus data leakage scandal in Poland recently and the Pegasus Project Investigation, doubts have been raised in regard to …

The seven years of conflict taking place in Yemen led to the worst humanitarian crisis. Around three hundred thousands people have died, including sixty percent of them from indirect causation to the conflict. A great majority of the population is relying on international aid and assistance. However, due to the war being at its full swing, the already non sufficient …

On the 10th of December 2021, the US Supreme Court gave its decision on the case Whole Women’s Health, giving the right to pro-abortion activists to fight the Texas Heartbeat Act back to a federal court, but allowed meanwhile the remain into stay of the Act. The next day, the California governor reacted to this decision stating on his twitter …

In winter 2022 will take place the Winter Olympics in Beijing. However, in the last few days state’s leaders from the different parts of the world announced a political boycott of this Olympics. It is linked, among others, to the genocide of the Uyghurs perpetrated by the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which has been highlighted and unofficially found by …

After the recent breakout of Belarus border crisis, involving Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, the Council invited the Commission to adopt a proposal providing concrete measures to ensure an immediate and appropriate support to the Member States concerned. The proposal in question should be in line with EU law and international obligations, including the respect for the fundamental human rights. Since …