Videos and reports from activists aboard the Gaza-bound humanitarian aid ship called the Madleen surfaced on their personal accounts Sunday night, showing Israeli authorities seizing the vessel as activists raised their hands in the air.  Shortly after the arrest footage was posted to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition X account, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the [...]

Thousands of opposition protesters demonstrated in Madrid, Spain, on Sunday, accusing Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) of corruption and calling for an early election. The protest was organized by the country’s main opposition party, Partido Popular (PP), after leaked audio recordings revealed a PSOE campaign to discredit the [...]

The Tokyo High Court on Friday overturned a district court ruling against the former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) which had ordered them to pay compensation of 13 trillion yen ($90 billion) for their failure to prevent the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The High Court’s ruling centered around TEPCO [...]

Progressive International members announced on Friday plans for an eight-day “Global March to Gaza” during which thousands of activists, doctors, artists, and citizens from 31 countries will march from Cairo, Egypt, to Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip in an effort to break Israel’s blockade on the Strip. Scheduled to begin on June 12, the [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) expressed concern Friday over a Zambian court’s interim injunction that blocks a media outlet from airing an investigation documentary on Chinese investments in Zambia. The nation’s High Court granted the order following a lawsuit filed by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Zambia against the media outlet News Diggers. [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and six other European media freedom organizations called on Poland’s newly elected president to urgently pursue reforms to uphold press freedom in the country. The coalition urged President-elect Karol Nawrocki to foster non-partisan cooperation in government in order to implement the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) and adopt legal safeguards against [...]

The United States Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in favor of seven American gun manufacturers in a lawsuit brought by the Mexican government accusing them of aiding and abetting Mexican cartels. In its holding, the Supreme Court concluded that Mexico’s complaint failed to show that the seven gun manufacturers had participated in unlawful firearm sales [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) emphasized on Friday that journalists in Malta remain at risk following the conviction of two individuals for supplying a bomb that killed an investigative journalist in 2017. Head of the RSF European Union and Balkans desk Pavol Szalai called the convictions “undeniable progress in the quest for justice,” but noted that [...]

European Union officials, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa, reaffirmed the EU’s support for the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday in response to US sanctions on four ICC judges. Slovenia, home to one of the sanctioned judges, has further asked Brussels to use the EU’s Extraterritoriality (Blocking) [...]

New Zealand’s Parliament on Thursday suspended three Māori lawmakers for staging a protest that included performing the haka, a traditional Māori dance, in opposition to a controversial bill. Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, who are the co-leaders of the Te Pāti Māori party, were suspended without pay for 21 days following a vote by a [...]