UAE: State Security Retaliates Against Ahmed Mansoor
Click to expand Image In this Aug. 25, 2016 file photo, human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor speaks to Associated Press journalists in Ajman, United Arab Emirates. © 2016 AP Photo/Jon Gambrell (Beirut)...
View ArticleEU: Put Fundamental Rights at Top of Digital Regulation
Click to expand Image European Commissioner for a Europe fit for the Digital Age Margrethe Vestager, left, and European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton during a news conference on...
View ArticleKazakhstan: Cancel ‘Shoot Without Warning’ Order
Click to expand Image Kazakh riot police walk to block demonstrators gathering during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, January 5, 2022. © AP Photo/Vladimir Tretyakov (New York) – Kazakhstan should...
View Article20 Years of US Torture – and Counting
Click to expand Image The first foreign Muslim men imprisoned by the US military at the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in the so-called “global war on terror.” Since January 2002, the US...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia: Imminent Deportation of Uyghur Detainees
Click to expand Image Saudi Crown Prince and Defence Minister Mohammed bin Salman arrives to attend the first meeting of the defense ministers and officials of the 41-member Saudi-led Muslim...
View ArticleDjokovic Case Highlights Australia’s Cruel Immigration Policies
Click to expand Image Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic celebrates his win at the Paris Masters tennis tournament in Paris, France, November 6, 2021. © 2021 AP Photo/Thibault Camus While the world...
View ArticleSouth Korean Court Declines to Recognize Same-Sex Partners
Click to expand Image Participants march with a rainbow flag during a Pride parade in Seoul, South Korea, July 15, 2017. © 2017 AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon. A court in Seoul, South Korea has rejected a...
View ArticleIran: Writer Dies in Custody
Click to expand Image Baktash Abtin. © 2020 Private (Beirut) – The death of the writer and poet Baktash Abtin in custody is emblematic of the dire situation Iranian authorities have created for...
View ArticleChinese Authorities’ ‘Inhumane Cruelty’ Again on Display
Click to expand Image Zhang Qing (L), the wife of Chinese human rights activist Guo Feixiong, speaks at a press conference before a subcommittee hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in...
View ArticleEgypt: Prominent Rights Group Forced to Close
Click to expand Image Human rights activist Gamal Eid is seen at a court in Cairo, March 24, 2016. © 2016 Reuters / Asmaa Waguih (Beirut) – The Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), long...
View ArticleRussian Authorities Aim to Stifle Leading Rights Group
Click to expand Image An iPhone screen shows the Telegram account of OVD-Info, prominent human rights group in Russia that tracks arbitrary arrests of protestors in Moscow, Russia, December 25, 2021....
View ArticlePakistan: Media, Critics Under Increasing Attack
Click to expand Image Pakistani journalists and civil society activists take part in a demonstration called by the journalists’ union to condemn attacks on journalists, in Islamabad, Pakistan, May 28,...
View ArticleVietnam: Dozens of Rights Activists Detained, Tried
Click to expand Image Vietnamese Political Detainees and Prisoners, from upper left: Pham Chi Dung, Nguyen Thi Tam, Trinh Ba Phuong, Pham Doan Trang, Le Trong Hung; lower left: Nguyen Tuong Thuy,...
View ArticleMyanmar: Coup Crushes Democratic Rule
Click to expand Image Medical workers stand in a “Red Ribbon Campaign” demonstration at a hospital in Mandalay, Myanmar, protesting against the military coup, February 3, 2021. © 2021 Kaung Zaw Hein...
View ArticleEU: Commitment to Rights Falters Under Stress
Click to expand Image Sara, 26, and Hassan, 24, both from Syria, sit on the ground in the forest in Lewosze, Poland, after crossing the border from Belarus, October 29, 2021. © 2021 REUTERS/Kacper...
View ArticleLatin America: Alarming Reversal of Basic Freedoms
Click to expand Image A man is arrested during a demonstration in Havana against the government of Cuba, on July 11, 2021. © 2021 Adalberto Roque/AFP via Getty Images (New York) – Latin America is...
View ArticleTurkey Defies International Human Rights Law
Click to expand Image On March 20, 2021, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a decree withdrawing Turkey from the Council of Europe’s Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women...
View ArticleIraq: Impunity for Serious Abuses
Click to expand Image A woman casts her vote in the general elections on October 10, 2021 at a polling place in Baghdad. © 2021 Ayman Yaqoob/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (Beirut) – The Iraqi...
View ArticleLebanon: Callous Disregard for Rights
Click to expand Image Families of Port Blast's victims show portraits of their beloved ones near the Palace of Justice in Beirut, November 25, 2021. Relatives of victims call for an independent...
View ArticleBahrain: Repression Marks Uprising Anniversary
Click to expand Image An anti-government protestor gestures in front of police as demonstrators re-occupy Pearl roundabout on February 19, 2011 in Manama, Bahrain. Ten years after the anti-government...
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