South Korea investigators halt Yoon arrest attempt | DW

South Korean investigators have failed to carry out an arrest warrant against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after arriving at his residence to execute it.

Human rights plummet in Ukraine, Russian-occupied territories | Voice of America

UN human rights monitors find that almost three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the human rights situation in the country and areas occupied by Russia is on a downward spiral, as military operations intensify, civilian casualties rise, and torture, summary executions and other gross violations proliferate.

Chinese lawyer says she was pepper-sprayed by court officials when trying to observe case | South China Morning Post

Members of China’s legal community are shocked after lawyers were pepper-sprayed by court bailiffs as they tried to sit in on a landmark case involving local authorities suing a private company outside the area they govern.

Rights lawyer brands arrest of Italian journalist in Tehran a bargaining tactic | Iran International

Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh criticised the Iranian authorities for using foreign nationals as bargaining chips following the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala.

International court rules against El Salvador in key abortion rights case | The Guardian

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has ruled that El Salvador violated the human rights of a Salvadoran woman who was denied an abortion despite her high-risk pregnancy in 2013.

Gaza war victims take legal action against BP over oil supply to Israel | The Guardian

Palestinian victims of the war in Gaza are taking legal action against BP for running a pipeline that supplies much of Israel’s crude oil.

Amnesty International urges China to release human rights lawyers detained since 2019 | JURIST

Amnesty International has called on the Chinese government to release human rights lawyers Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi, who have been imprisoned for subversion over attending a social gathering in December 2019.

Argentine court issues arrest warrant against Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega | Buenos Aires Herald

An Argentine court has issued an international arrest warrant for Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega over alleged human rights violations, which include persecution on religious grounds and of indigenous communities and journalists’ arrests.

Call for human right to have legal case heard by a person, not AI | The Times

It should be a legal right for court rulings to be handed down by a human being and not a robot, a senior English judge has said.

New asylum law raises concerns of violations in Egypt | Middle East Monitor

Egypt’s first asylum law raises concerns of violations being committed against refugees and asylum seekers, especially after responsibility for registering asylum seekers and determining their refugee status is transferred from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to the Egyptian government.