human rights abuses

GOP officials are slamming the Biden administration’s decision to host Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi — dubbed the “Butcher of Tehran” —  who travelled to New York to attend Tuesday’s United Nations session.

NBC sports broadcaster Mike Tirico claims that he feared having a suddenly positive COVID test knock him out of work after criticizing China.

Rep. Claudia Tenney called on Congress to stand with the “brave” Iranian people following the passage of a resolution commending Iranian protestors.

Over half-a-dozen Iranian advocacy groups issued a letter calling out European governments for “complacency” toward the brutal Islamic regime, while demanding more sanctions and cutting diplomatic ties with the Islamic republic as ongoing protests continue to rock cities across Iran.

A huge trove of documents and photographs from police in Xinjiang province, obtained by hackers and released in an extensively vetted report on Tuesday, offers further documentation of the Chinese Communist Party’s horrific human rights abuses. The files include photographic evidence of mass detention and abuse, including very young children from the oppressed Uyghur Muslim minority.

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is running damage control after three men were executed during his oil-begging visit to Saudi Arabia.

Pro golfer Phil Mickelson is not out of the woods yet over his comments about Saudi Arabia as he has begun losing sponsors over the comments.

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) blasted the Biden administration, claiming the world now “sees weakness in the White House,” while calling Biden the “worst president for human rights in modern American history” and warning “trend lines” suggest the U.S. may cede its superpower status to China.

Joe Biden’s White House is set to impose an empty “diplomatic” boycott of the Olympics in China by refusing to send an official delegation.

Cuban officials are committing “brutal abuses” against Cubans who participated in the largely peaceful July 11 protests against the country’s 62-year-old communist regime, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch on Tuesday.

Two Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials reportedly received an education through Harvard University fellowships before overseeing what U.S. State Department labeled a genocide of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang.

The request comes a week after Cuba’s largest anti-government protests in decades broke out in more than 40 municipalities on the island.

Activists with the group “Anacostia Conservative Coalition” held a news conference Tuesday to protest D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowsers’ alleged human rights abuses of inmates who were held in near-solitary confinement at the D.C. jail during the coronavirus pandemic.

BEIJING (AP) — China’s government warned Washington on Wednesday not to boycott next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing after the Biden administration said it was talking with allies about a joint approach to complaints of human rights abuses.

Citing a report he did not specifically name, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said over the weekend that minor migrants who are in the country illegally are being mistreated in facilities where they are being temporarily housed.

Who tries to have a beach volleyball tournament without bikinis? Qatar does, and two German volleyball stars are having none of it.

The United States announced a ban on some Malaysian palm oil imports on Wednesday over allegations that one of the country’s leading producers uses forced labor.

Labour’s Diane Abbott has said she condemns the mistreatment of “Muslims in Uyghur” — which is not a place — after sharing a platform with people who deny Chinese Communist Party (CCP) abuses

China, which has built concentration camps holding as many as up to 3 million Muslims in the past five years, demanded at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday that America do more to fight “systematic racism, racial discrimination, white supremacy, religious intolerance, and xenophobia.”

Mozambique on Tuesday condemned the apparent brutal execution of a naked woman by men in army uniforms and ordered an investigation.

A group of 50 to 70 Afghan migrants attempting to cross the border into Iran were allegedly beaten, tortured, and in some cases drowned by Iranian security guards on May 1. On Wednesday the Iranian regime officially denied the incident occurred and accused the United States of slandering Tehran by repeating the accusations.

Hong Kong’s Chinese-controlled authorities blocked the entry of the executive director of the human rights organization Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, on Sunday.

Former ESPN social justice warrior Jemele Hill took to Twitter to “laugh,” as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo detailed the litany of Chinese Human Rights Abuses on Friday.

During an interview with reporters, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr referenced “America’s record of human rights abuses” and framed those alleged abuses around AR-15s.

The firestorm that followed the National Basketball Association’s kowtowing to China reflects the souring of China’s relationship with the U.S. However, it may not fundamentally change the way U.S. businesses respond to pressure from the Chinese regime.

Chinese media tends to be very astute at picking up and exacerbating hot-button American political issues, doing everything it can to highlight controversies even when China’s authoritarian brutality makes the criticism absurd.

Immigration officers rounded up at least 39 foreign nationals suspected of human rights violations in their home countries. Offenses include forced abortions, kidnapping, murder, civilian torture, massacres, mutilations, recruitment of child soldiers, and more.

Chinese state media on Thursday touted “booming labor-based industries” driving economic growth in Xinjiang, home to internment camps holding hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities subjected to forced labor and other human rights abuses.

Financially troubled Iran has adopted a new law to allow death row inmates to “voluntarily” offer their organs “before or after execution” to potential buyers looking for a transplant, the Telegraph reported over the weekend.

A trove of Chinese government documents contradicts Beijing’s claims that its internment camps for Muslim minorities in Xinjiang are vocational and training centers aimed at combating terrorism, an independent researcher reported on Monday.

The United States Special Representative for Venezuela Elliot Abrams dismissed the notion that the ruling socialist regime could oversee free and fair elections as “laughable,” at a press briefing Tuesday.

Beijing dismissed on Tuesday U.S. assertions that it is using technology to violate human rights in Muslim Uighur-majority Xinjiang province, arguing that its “big data” efforts allegedly aimed at improving “social governance” target everyone “irrespective” of nationality in an op-ed published by the state-run China Daily.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet met with members of the Maduro regime, the opposition, and human rights groups during her visit to Venezuela this week.

Iranian-backed Houthis in hunger-stricken Yemen recruited an estimated 50,000 children in the past three months, including orphans and girls, to fight in the country’s bloody conflict, the information minister for the country’s internationally-recognized government reportedly declared this week.

China is using its clout over the United Nations to promote and legitimize its so-called “re-education” centers in Xinjiang where communist authorities are subjecting Uighurs and other Muslim minorities to extrajudicial incarceration, torture, forced political indoctrination, the renunciation of their faith, and other human rights abuses, Chinese state media revealed on Monday. 

A large crowd is expected to take part in a rally in the nation’s capital Tuesday to protest China’s ongoing human rights abuses on the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.