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Our weekly round-up of human rights stories from around the world. Uyghurs facing deportation by Thailand say they will be ‘like slaves’ in China

A North Carolina man is suing OpenAI and chief executive Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT helped his estranged wife to poison him. James Gates’s lawsuit, filed in San Francisco County Superior Court, says Cheryl Gates began using the chatbot in early 2025 to discuss work and marital problems. Her

A motorcyclist who suffered serious injuries after colliding head-on with an event marshal during the 2022 Scottish Six Days Trial has been awarded £380,000 in damages following a judgement by the Court of Session. Mark Lamplough, an experienced motorcycle trials competitor and former Army mot

To help organisations in the UK keep on top of the evolving and complex world of pensions, Dentons is launching a tracker covering key developments and how to prepare for changes. The Pensions Tracker from Dentons will be updated regularly to reflect future priorities that businesses need to be awar

Referrals to the UK’s Prevent programme reached a record 10,293 in the year to September 2025, while the Home Office lacks a clear picture of some risks and the programme’s full costs, a National Audit Office report says. Prevent aims to support people at risk of radicalisation. The NAO

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) ruled on Tuesday that Trinidad and Tobago’s laws criminalising adult consensual same-sex intimacy are unconstitutional, delivering a landmark victory for human rights in its judgment in Jason Jones v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago.&nb

A Japanese city assembly has approved wrestler Billyken Kid’s request to wear his trademark mask during council sessions. Billyken, 52, was elected to the Kawanishi Municipal Assembly in Hyogo Prefecture in October, receiving more votes than any other candidate while campaigning masked. Assemb

Health ministers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have called on the UK government to provide certainty to victims harmed by an epilepsy medicine.

A free independent advocacy service has been launched to support families who have lost loved ones in prison custody. Advocacy workers will offer practical and emotional support that is trauma-informed and tailored to the needs of each family. This will include helping bereaved families to understan

Partners at US law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges have voted to close the 95-year-old firm, with 97 per cent backing an “orderly wind-down”, according to Bloomberg. The firm reported $2 billion in turnover last year and profits of more than $5 million per equity partner. A committee comp

James Wolffe KC has defended his successor, Dorothy Bain KC, over her briefing to First Minister John Swinney on the case against former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell. Mr Wolffe told MPs on the Scottish Affairs Committee that it “wasn’t routine” for lord advocates to brief mini

Families who may be impacted by family protection trusts arranged by the failed law firm WW & J McClure Limited throughout the UK are being invited to register their interest in a proposed group legal action. McClure Solicitors went into administration in 2021 following which the goodwill, work

UN human rights experts have called on Iran to stop what they describe as escalating persecution and intimidation of independent lawyers, warning that pressure on the profession is undermining defendants’ access to a fair trial.

People across Scotland are struggling to afford food and housing and to access healthcare, according to the Scottish Human Rights Commission. Its annual report for 2025-26, laid before Holyrood on 30 October, covers the second year of the commission’s 2024-28 strategic plan. It says the SHRC r

A man has been jailed for deceiving his mother, aunt and uncle into giving him money for a fake investigation – supposedly overseen by US Chief Justice John Roberts. Jason Taylor, 38, of Pelham in the US state of New Hampshire was sentenced to two-and-a-half to five years in prison after plead