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Home Office's Rwanda flight GROUNDED – as FM Nicola Sturgeon issues warning

THE Home Office has cancelled the first flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda – after last-minute legal challenges and a key European ruling…

The National (Scotland) · Jun 14, 2022

Rwanda deportation flight called off at last minute after European judges intervene

The flight that was scheduled to deport the first refugees to Rwanda will not take off following a series of eleventh-hour interventions by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2022

‘I’m very worried’: Sister of Iranian Kurd on Rwanda flight pleads for help

Exclusive: Iranian Kurd on flight says ‘tell my family I love them, I’m sorry for everything’

The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2022

Russian forces control most of eastern Ukraine's Severodonetsk, governor says

Russian forces control most of the strategic Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk and are heavily shelling the twin city of Lysychansk, causing major damage, the governor of Luhansk region said on Wednesday. This comes as fighting intensifies in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Read about the day’s events as they unfolded on…

France 24 · Jun 8, 2022

Russian parliament votes to exit European Court of Human Rights

The Russian State Duma on Tuesday passed a pair of bills ending the European Court of Human Rights’ jurisdiction in Russia, after Russia announced plans to exit the court amid the conflict in Ukraine.

Reuters · Jun 7, 2022

Brexit: Boris Johnson warned he risks EU sanctions with assault on Human Rights Act

Measures are at heart of Queen’s Speech designed to show the UK is shaking off Brussels ‘fetters’ following Brexit

The Independent UK · May 9, 2022

Human Rights laws slowing action on abortion clinic buffer zones, FM says

Calls for buffer zones around abortion clinics in Scotland have intensified in recent weeks

The National (Scotland) · May 5, 2022

Turkish opposition vows to overturn sentences against Kavala, others

Turkish opposition leaders vowed to overturn jail sentences against philanthropist Osman Kavala and seven others convicted at the end of a case that lawyers said showed courts had become the government's "vehicle for revenge".

Reuters · Apr 26, 2022

Timeline: Turkish court sentences Kavala to life imprisonment

Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala was jailed for life without parole on Monday on charges of trying to overthrow the government by financing protests, in a case that Europe's top court and Western powers say is politically motivated.

Reuters · Apr 25, 2022

Turkish philanthropist Kavala jailed for life, activists protest

Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala was jailed for life without parole on Monday after he was convicted of trying to overthrow the government by financing protests, in a case that Europe's top court and Western powers say is politically motivated.

Reuters · Apr 25, 2022