Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrived in Australia today after he was freed by a United States court in Saipan under a plea deal. 

Assange’s plane landed in Canberra on Wednesday, hours after the 52-year-old pleaded guilty in a court in Saipan to a charge of espionage, related to obtaining and publishing US military secrets.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Russia guilty of committing multiple human rights violations in Ukraine’s occupied Crimea peninsula.

In the case brought against Russia, Ukraine alleges that since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia has committed human rights violations including inhuman or degrading treatment, the prohibition of freedom of religion, and freedom of expression among other rights. 

The European Council adopted sanctions against six individuals responsible for atrocities in the ongoing conflict in Sudan. 

Fighting continues between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their respective affiliated militias. In response to this the European Council has adopted "restrictive measures" against six individuals responsible for activities "undermining the stability and political transition of Sudan".

On 17 June, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights held a public hearing in which the Ecumenical Foundation for Development and Peace (Fedepaz) joined representatives of victims from the Barrios Alos and La Cantuta cases in requesting the court to halt the proceedings of a pro-impunity bill.

Bill 6951/2023-CR aims to prevent the prosecution, sentencing, or punishment for crimes against humanity or war crimes committed before 1 July 2002.

A street of Mariupol during siege of the city in the course of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

A recent analysis submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) accuses Russia of engaging in a "deliberate pattern" of starvation tactics during the 85-day siege of Mariupol in early 2022. 

French President Emmanuel Macron has suspended controversial voting reforms in New Caledonia after an outbreak of deadly unrest in the French island territory. 

The unrest which flared up in New Caledonia on 13 May led to the deaths of 9 people. 

“The constitutional bill regarding New Caledonia… I have decided to suspend,” Macron said on Wednesday. 

In a statement released last week, UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed deep concern over the escalating violence in Myanmar.

UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said that the Secretary-General “calls on all parties to the conflict to exercise maximum restraint, prioritize protection of civilians in accordance with international humanitarian law, and prevent further incitement of communal tension and violence.”

Myanmar’s Rakhine State has seen an increase in violence between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army. 

Narendra Modi has been sworn in as India's prime minister for a third term in a ceremony held at the presidential palace in Delhi.

A protest against "Tigray Genocide" on March 26, 2021, in New York, NY.

A report published by the New Lines Institute on 3 June has concluded that there is compelling evidence that Ethiopian forces and its allies committed genocidal acts during the Tigray war.

The Arakan army is accused of persecuting Rhogingya in parts of the Rakhine state as the armed group has won control of large swathes of land in the region from the military junta. 

The Arakan Army, has won control of large parts of Rakhine State in Myanmar over the past few months, most recently the northern section where many Rohingya still live. In recent days, rights groups have accused the rebels of expelling the minority from their homes and destroying their property, in many cases by arson. The Arakan Army has rejected these allegations.