Israeli Supreme Court strikes down Netanyahu regime’s judicial overhaul law
By Staff Writer The Supreme Court of Israel on Monday (01) in a historic judgment has struck down the government's reasonableness limitation law, annulling one of its quasi-constitutional Basic Laws for the first time in the country's history. The court split over the highly contentious legislation, with eight justices ruling to
License to kill: US police killed over 1,200 people in 2023
By Jacob Crosse Nearly a decade after popular protests broke in Ferguson, Missouri, following the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, MappingPoliceViolence.us (MPV) has found that police killed at least 1,213 people this year in the US, slightly more than the 1,202 deaths tabulated by MPV in 2022. According to MPV, citing data from
Poet and teacher Ahnaf Jazeem, victim of Sri Lanka government racist campaign, acquitted
By Sanjaya Jayasekera The High Court of Puttalam last Tuesday (12) acquitted poet and teacher Ahnaf Jazeem of the charge against him framed under draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), three and half years after his wrongful arrest. The acquittal is based on the failure of the State to prove the
Australian government rams through detention and citizenship-stripping laws
By Mike Head Scenes in the Australian parliament on Wednesday made a farce of any pretence of democracy. In fact, the real face of parliament was on display, spearheaded by a Labor government in imposing deeply reactionary laws. Intent on proving itself more draconian than the Liberal-National Coalition, the Labor government again
Chilling attack on free speech: NY court issues injunction against resolution opposing Gaza genocide
By Tom Hall A New York state court has issued a restraining order blocking a vote by members of the New York City public defenders’ union opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The order was granted after their employers filed suit to prevent the resolution from being passed. The move is a major
UK Supreme Court upholds Sunak’s Rwanda Asylum Policy unlawful
By Staff Writer In a landmark ruling last Wednesday (15), a five judge bench of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously dismissed the Home Secretary's appeal to enforce Rwanda Asylum Policy, and upheld the Court of Appeal's decision that the policy is unlawful. The court concluded that there are
Germany to prosecute slogan calling for freedom for Palestine as a crime
By Justus Leicht Use of the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is now being prosecuted in Germany as a criminal offense punishable by imprisonment of up to three years or a fine. Munich Chief Prosecutor Andreas Franck, who is also the antisemitism commissioner of the
Gaza no more: Israel Finance Minister
By C.J.Atkins The leaked plans revealed it, the genocidal war on the ground demonstrated it, and now the words of a top government minister confirm it: Israel’s ultimate plan in this war is the permanent expulsion of the Palestinian people from Gaza. Bezalel Smotrich, finance minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert, Zionist warmonger, hosted by Kathmandu think-tank, speaks on how to wage war and build ‘peace’
By Sanjaya Jayasekera The Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement (NIICE), a Kathmandu based think-tank has joined the bandwagon of lies and slanders in rationalizing the Zionist genocide in Gaza against Palestinian people, and is sponsoring war mongers in its public platforms. On October 31, NIICE had invited former Prime Minister
Rashida Tlaib censure vote sets precedent for criminalizing opposition to Gaza genocide
By Patrick Martin The vote by the US House of Representatives to censure Representative Rashida Tlaib (Democrat-Michigan) for her opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza is an unprecedented attack on democratic rights. Tlaib, the lone Palestinian-American in the House, is the first representative since the Civil War to be censured