Aquiles Álvarez, mayor of Ecuador’s largest city, was arrested by the police. The prosecutor’s office requested preventive detention. Álvarez’s supporters denounce political persecution amid a scandal in the judiciary.

Progressive groups termed the denial of bail a violation of the fundamental right of liberty, accusing the Narendra Modi-led government of persecuting opposition voices and political dissent.

The party’s president, Rashed Khan Menon, has been imprisoned for over a year and party offices, including its central office, have been occupied by pro-government mobs for months now.

La defensa de Bermejo rechaza las acusaciones y denuncia una supuesta persecución política. Bermejo se perfilaba como uno de los precandidatos presidenciales mejores valorados en el país andino.

Bermejo’s defense team has rejected the accusations and denounced alleged political persecution. Bermejo was emerging as one of the most highly rated presidential candidates in the Andean country.

The former president has been sentenced to six years of house arrest. Thousands of students, workers, teachers, etc., mobilized on the streets of Buenos Aires to repudiate the ruling.

Accused of influence peddling, Karol Cariola was targeted by a right-wing motion of censure in the same week that she gave birth and attended her newborn.

After spending six years in jail without trial, Indian activists Rona Wilson and Sudhir Dhawle were finally granted bail.

Khan and his party PTI have maintained that most of cases against him are politically motivated to keep him away from power by the current government and the military establishment combined.

Organizations pledge to keep fighting attempts to sanction pro-Palestine activity without evidence or due process

The interim government in Bangladesh has now arrested at least five journalists and filed cases of murder and crimes against humanity against dozens of others

Khan has been imprisoned for over a year now, despite courts either suspending or overturning all of his prior convictions