NEW DELHI (AA): India’s Supreme Court on Friday stayed the conviction of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi in a criminal defamation case, paving the way for his return to parliament and contesting national elections next year. Gandhi was sentenced to two years in prison and disqualified in March in a case by a lawmaker from the […]
ANKARA (AA): The top Indian court on Thursday continued hearing the case challenging the Indian government’s 2019 decision to scrap the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, with petitioners questioning the role of the parliament which abrogated the special status. As the second-day hearing began in the morning, senior Advocate Kapil Siba...
ANKARA (AA): India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing petitions challenging the Indian government’s 2019 decision scrapping the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. A constitution bench led by Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud began hearing arguments in the case nearly four years after the decision was ...
ANKARA (AA): Several groups have forcefully opposed the idea of uniform civil code in India, while some experts see it as a political move by the Hindu nationalist government, aimed at mobilizing Hindu voters. “Majoritarian morality must not supersede personal laws, religious freedom, and minority rights in the name of a code which remains an ...
ANKARA (AA): A UN refugee agency official has called on the EU governments to place safety and solidarity at the forefront of their actions in the wake of the June 14 shipwreck off the coast of Greece which caused the deaths of at least 82 migrants while hundreds more are feared to have drowned. “The […]
LONDON (AA) – British police has arrested three protesters following a clash near a hotel housing asylum-seekers in northwestern England. Merseyside police said earlier that officers are “dealing with two groups of protesters” in Prescot as they were “facilitating an initially peaceful protest and counter protest”...
Global journalists’ associations have condemned the murder of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif on Sunday in Kenya. The groups have called for immediate and speedy investigations into the case. Sharif was shot by Kenyan police officers at a roadblock in Kajiado County, about an hour’s drive from the capital Nairobi. Kenyan police have said t...
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurring opinion on the overturning of Roe v. Wade, said the court has no intention of stopping there. MoveOn Executive Director Rahna Epting warned the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority’s agenda “does not end at abortion.” Justice Thomas said previous rulings involving cas...
On Sunday Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said right-wing U.S. Supreme Court justices who “misled” senators during confirmation hearings should be impeached for lying under oath. The justices testified under oath about whether they supported overturning Roe v. Wade. Speaking with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Ocasio-Cor...
On Monday, a former Washington high school football coach who lost his job over reciting a prayer on the 50-yard line after games won his Supreme Court appeal. Joe Kennedy was a junior varsity head coach and varsity assistant coach with the Bremerton School District in Washington from 2008 to 2015. He began to regularly […]
