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Northern Ireland pastor convicted over open-air service inside abortion ‘safe access zone’
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A court in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, has convicted retired pastor Clive Johnston of breaching abortion “safe access zone” rules after he delivered an open-air sermon near Causeway Hospital in July 2024. District Judge Peter King imposed a £450 fine and upheld two offences under the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act (Northern Ireland) 2023.
Eight Kenyan workers remain detained in Benghazi, Libya, more than six weeks after their arrest on March 21. Their families are appealing for urgent government help to secure their release.
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A veteran advocate has told an inquiry that apartheid-era generals tried to halt investigations into past atrocities by threatening to expose senior ANC figures. The testimony came at the Khampepe Commission examining delays in Truth and Reconciliation Commission prosecutions.
Security Minister Trinidad Steinert hit back at Instituto Nacional de Derechos Humanos (INDH) Director Yerko Ljubetic's criticisms of the Nain-Retamal law, calling it an attack on his mandate. Steinert accused Ljubetic of using an 'inverted logic' and defended the law as a key advance against criminal impunity. The dispute arose during the INDH's 2025 public accountability event.
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Brazil's Chamber of Deputies Human Rights Committee sent an official request to the Foreign Ministry and Justice Ministry for urgent action regarding an Egyptian family detained at Guarulhos International Airport since April 8. The family's 34-week pregnant wife was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection after severe lower abdominal pains on Friday, April 24. The document describes their stay in a restricted-area hotel as a human rights violation.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk met on Tuesday with families of Mexico's disappeared during his official visit that began on April 17. Türk expressed admiration for their courage in an X post. Interior Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez called a government meeting positive.
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Mery Cortez, mother of Romario Veloz, testified before the Senate's Human Rights, Nationality and Citizenship Commission against proposed presidential pardons that would benefit Captain José Santiago Faúndez, convicted for her son's 2019 death. Cortez described the revived trauma from these proposals and questioned President José Antonio Kast on forgiveness for victims. Subsecretary Pablo Mira and Justice Minister Fernando Rabat attended part of Tuesday's session.
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