Suspended South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol was detained on Wednesday for briefly imposing martial law in December, the official Yonhap news agency reported. Police officers and staff from South Korea’s anti-corruption office escorted Yoon from his residence on Wednesday morning to take him to the public prosecutor’s office in their second attempt to do…
The UN Libya mission expressed its alarm over footage circulating on social media featuring “brutal torture and ill-treatment” of detainees at the Gernada detention facility in eastern Libya. Reuters was not able to independently verify the neither location nor date of the footage, however, architectural details seen on the videos, including the type of tiles…
Turkey’s intelligence agency conducted a cross-border operation inside Syria and seized a man suspected of perpetrating a 2013 bomb attack near the Syrian border that killed dozens of people, a Turkish security source said on Monday. Twin car bombs ripped through the border town of Reyhanli in Hatay province on May 11, 2013, killing 53…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the federal government and 36 governors before the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja over the legality of the Cybercrimes (Amendment) Act 2024.SERAP is accusing the government of using the Cybercrimes Act to criminalise legitimate expressions and violate the human rights of Nigerians, including activists,…
Director General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Binta Adamu Bello has vowed to ensure justice for a rescued Nigerian woman who was trafficked to Iraq in 2023, Miss Odunayo Eniola Isaac. The DG has directed officers of the counselling and rehabilitation department of the agency to immediately commence…
The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR), said no fewer than 5,601 people were killed in gang violence in Haiti in 2024, appealing for greater efforts by the authorities and the international community to address the root causes. These deaths represent an increase of over 1,000 in the total killings for 2023, according to figures verified…
Amid rising tensions with Israel and with less than two weeks left before the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Iran’s military has begun testing its air defences near the important Natanz nuclear facility. The first phase of a manoeuvre around the site in the centre of the country began on Tuesday, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim…
A German couple on Tuesday confessed to killing a Ukrainian refugee and her mother in March 2024 in order to steal her baby. On the first day of the trial at Mannheim District Court, the two defendants admitted to killing the 27-year-old Ukrainian and her 51-year-old mother. “I regret everything I have done,” the man…
The U.S. said that it has eased some restrictions on Syria’s government to allow for humanitarian aid. The U.S. Treasury had issued a sanctions exemption for six months to “support the Syrian people as they build a more hopeful, secure, and peaceful future,’’ it said in a statement. In December, Syria’s new de facto leader,…
Singapore recorded 129 cases of murder, attempted murder, robbery, rioting, and serious harm involving knives as of November 2024, the Ministry of Home Affairs said Tuesday. Minister of State for Home Affairs Sun Xueling announced that the list of regulated weapons will be expanded to include flick knives and knuckledusters in the first half of…
