UN human rights experts Monday demanded the Taliban release a British couple who have been reportedly arbitrarily detained in Afghanistan since February. Experts criticized the couple’s lacking access to effective legal assistance and medical care, severed communication with family member, deprivation of liberty without due process. They stressed the severity of the situation, stating: We The post UN experts demand release of elderly British couple held in Afghanistan appeared first on JURIST – News.

Amnesty International stated on Tuesday that the Nepalese government failed to protect the right to housing, which resulted in a state of homelessness affecting marginalized groups, particularly Dalit and indigenous peoples. The organization condemned the repeated forced evictions conducted by the Nepalese authorities and urged the government to implement appropriate safeguards to protect citizens’ right The post Rights group says Nepal government failed to safeguard citizens’ right to housing appeared first on JURIST – News.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) praised the High Court of Malawi’s unanimous decision on Monday, which decriminalized the former crime of defamation. CPJ spokesperson, Muthoki Mumo, said: Malawi’s Constitutional Court has taken a monumental step towards protecting press freedom and affirmed that criticism and dissent are essential to democracy by ruling criminal defamation to The post Malawi court praised for decision declaring crime of defamation unconstitutional appeared first on JURIST – News.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday reported that Mali’s armed forces and the allied Russia-backed Wagner Group have carried out numerous “summary executions and enforced disappearances of ethnic Fulani men.” HRW documents that, since January 2025, the Malian army and the Wagner Group have executed “at least a dozen Fulani men and forcibly disappeared at The post Mali criticized over summary executions and enforced disappearances of ethnic Fulani men appeared first on JURIST – News.