On September 20, 2025, at around 7 a.m., dozens of children ran through the Simon Pele neighborhood in northern Port-au-Prince. They played among the colorful alleyways controlled for years by the gang of the same name waiting for Albert Steevenson, alias Djouma, to hand out toys as part of his birthday celebration. But quadcopter drones from an official operation, armed with explosives, were also flying through the alleyways with a clear objective: to kill the elusive Haitian gang leader.
The Shia cleric especially admires Victor Hugo. He has called Les Miserables the best novel ever written: a miracle; a book of history, criticism, love, and feeling. Its protagonist, Jean Valjean, returns to the righteous path thanks to the forgiveness and compassion of a religious figure: Bishop Myriel. Les Miserables is a tale of piety and redemption.
Luis had been missing for four decades, ever since he disappeared at age 15 during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973–1990). The notice came from a court in Arica, in the far north of Chile, summoning him for failing to vote in the May elections for constitutional councilors, according to records from the Electoral Service (Servel). Under Chile's compulsory voting law, anyone who does not vote must provide a justification; otherwise, they face sanctions.
Information was received from the community that the suspects have been involved in queer and unusual acts believed to be sexual in nature, besides being allegedly seen kissing each other in broad daylight. It's further alleged that many ladies normally converge to stay at the suspects' residence. It is upon that information that police acted by arresting the two female suspects under the allegation of practicing homosexuality.
Anyone committing an act against nature will be punished by five to 10 years' imprisonment. The bill modified the penal code to stipulate that any sexual act or act of a sexual nature between two people of the same sex constitutes an act against nature.
Launched on January 13 as a formally registered European citizens' initiative, the petition must reach 1 million signatures from at least seven EU member states by January 13 next year to trigger formal consideration by the European Commission. It is not a symbolic appeal. It is a mechanism embedded within the EU's democratic framework, designed to translate public will into institutional review.
In August 2023, a then 20-year-old man from Soroti in northeastern Uganda spent almost a year in custody after being charged with aggravated homosexuality, his lawyer Douglas Mawadri told Reuters, on Tuesday (3 February). The man was accused of "unlawful sexual intercourse" with a 41-year-old man. Mawadri said that during proceedings that lasted more than two years, prosectors amended the indictment and charged the man with having "carnal knowledge against the order of nature", which carried life imprisonment under Uganda's penal code.
Nicaragua's co-presidents, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, resorted on Tuesday to an old whitewashing tactic: releasing and parading political prisoners who had been forcibly disappeared. The move comes on the eve of a crucial decision for the Sandinista regime: the Trump administration will have to determine whether to expel the country from the Dominican RepublicCentral AmericaUnited States Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA)
More than 252 Venezuelans expelled to El Salvador under Donald Trump's mass deportation policy suffered systematic and prolonged torture and abuse, including sexual assault, during their detention, according to a report published on Wednesday. The report, compiled jointly by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Cristosal a group investigating violations in Central America says conditions at El Salvador's sprawling terrorist continent center (Cecot) breached the UN's standard minimal rules for the treatment of prisoners.
Nigel Farage portrays his Reform UK party as a unique phenomenon that has burst on to the global stage, its meteoric rise an exceptional epochal event. But this week, in every one of Europe's major countries and from India and Thailand to the US and Argentina, hard-right, anti-immigrant, anti-globalisation parties like his are also ahead in the opinion polls. In last Saturday's Czech elections, the rightwing, pro-Putin populist Andrej Babis toppled prime minister Petr Fiala.
Despite years of promises to phase out for-profit incarceration initiated by President Obama in 2016 and continued by President Biden, immigration detention remained untouched, allowing private prison corporations to thrive.
One night in mid-May, some of the Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador tried to break the locks on their cells with metal rails from their beds. It was a futile gesture of rebellion; no one thought they could escape. Still, punishment was swift. For six consecutive days, the inmates were subjected to lengthy beatings, three inmates told me.
The report documents conditions for detained immigrants at Florida's Krome North Service Processing Center, Broward Transitional Center, and Federal Detention Center, alleging flagrant violations of international human rights.
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has indicted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and two senior officials over alleged crimes against humanity related to a crackdown on protesters during last year's uprising.
"We had nothing to do with this horrible murder." NSO's CEO made this statement following the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, expressing a denial of involvement.
