Police in Cuba raided the headquarters of the dissident group Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) on Tuesday, arresting its leader, José Daniel Ferrer, a day after an Amnesty International report revealed “the state’s tactics have stayed almost exactly the same” for decades to silence dissent.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and organizations funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros are bankrolling a plan to provide temporary amnesty to Venezuela’s population.
TEL AVIV – A German government contractor, who is also a representative of Amnesty International, delivered an anti-Semitic speech in which she accused Israel of “executing” peaceful Palestinian protesters and blamed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the recent influx of refugees into Europe, the Jerusalem Post reported.
The Egyptian government on Wednesday denounced the United Nations for allegedly seeking to “politicize” the death this week of the former President Mohamed Morsi by calling for an “independent inquiry” into the demise of the prominent leader of the terror-linked Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group.
The Egyptian government denied a request for a public funeral from the family of former President Mohamed Morsi on Tuesday, quickly interring Morsi’s remains in the Nasr City district of Cairo.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus on Thursday refuted propaganda from the Chinese Communist government and described the crushing of democracy protests in Tiananmen Square 30 years ago as a “full-on massacre” that the free world will neither forgive or forget.
Survivors of religious persecution in Iran spoke at the International Christian Concern’s Capitol Hill Policy Day in Washington, DC.
Amnesty International (AI) issued a report on Monday stating that security agents and inmates at two prisons in Borno State, Nigeria, were sexually abusing women and children. Nigerian officials dismissed the allegations as baseless and described them as a “malicious” effort to undermine the morale of the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN).
Saudi Arabia executed 37 men convicted of terrorism offenses, including one who was crucified, the country’s state-run media agency revealed Tuesday.
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday published the 2018 edition of its annual report on the death penalty. The report found a 31 percent decrease in executions compared to 2017, “the lowest number of executions that Amnesty International has recorded in the past decade.”
Pro-mass migration NGOs “shocked” at EU policies aimed at deterring illegal immigration have turned to Angela Merkel with a plea to open the bloc’s borders.
Brunei’s already strict Islamic criminal code will enter an even tougher new stage next week with the introductions of laws mandating lengthy prison terms, whipping, and even execution for homosexual behavior. Brunei is set to become the first Asian country to punish homosexuality with the death penalty, as several Arab countries do.
Stoning to death for gay sex and amputation for theft are just two provisions in new legislation planned for the tiny Asian state of Brunei that have drawn criticism from human rights groups.
The United States military may have committed lethal “war crimes” against “numerous” civilians, including children, as it ramped up its airstrike campaign against the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab in Somalia under President Donald Trump’s watch, the human rights group Amnesty International claimed on Wednesday, echoing allegations by the terrorist group and some news outlets.
“Global indifference” to human rights violations across the Middle East has allowed repressive regimes to get away with crimes that they would not elsewhere, according to the latest report by Amnesty International.
Last week, Amnesty International came out with a viciously antisemitic report demanding that online tourism websites boycott Jewish sites in the Holy Land.
Amnesty International told digital tourism sites Wednesday that listings from Israeli settlements in the West Bank should be immediately banned.
Amnesty International on Thursday declared 2018 a “Year of Shame” for Iran because it arrested over 7,000 dissidents, sent hundreds of them to prison, physically abused the prisoners, and killed at least 26 of them.
Netflix faced criticism on Wednesday for pulling an episode in Saudi Arabia of comedian Hasan Minhaj’s “Patriot Act” that criticized the kingdom’s powerful crown prince.
China’s government-run Global Times newspaper encouraged the world on Thursday to embrace capital punishment for drug crimes, lamenting that “some people are still spending plenty of time talking about human right [sic] of drug smugglers.”
CAIRO — Sudanese police used tear gas and fired in the air Tuesday to disperse thousands of protesters attempting to march on the presidential palace in Khartoum to demand that Omar Bashir, Sudan’s president of 29 years, step down, according to activists and video clips posted online.
The Nigerian military launched a war against the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and Amnesty International this week for allegedly working with Boko Haram and undermining the soldiers in Nigeria.
Colombia presented a complaint to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, on Wednesday over the “arbitrary detention” of 59 of its citizens by the Maduro regime in Venezuela.
Amnesty International is reportedly organizing mass protests against Google over the company’s development of a censored Chinese search app, code-named” Project Dragonfly.”
Respected human rights organizations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have accused authorities in Saudi Arabia of torturing and even sexually abusing some of the country’s most high profile dissidents and human rights activists.
Charity workers were ordered to work with disgraced alleged sex pest Brendan Cox by the head of Amnesty International UK, who was aware of the allegations against him.
A “horrific escalation of violence” fueled by clashes between security forces and separatist groups in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions has led to the death of 400 “ordinary people” already this year, the human rights group Amnesty International reported this week.
Amnesty International, a non-governmental organisation funded by billionaire financier George Soros, is taking legal action to try and block a ‘traditional family’ referendum on whether to define marriage as a union between a man and woman in Romania.
Two women in Malaysia were publicly caned in a religious court on Monday after they were found guilty of attempted sex with each other in a car.
More than a dozen human rights groups have urged Google in an open letter not to censor its search function as it expands into the China market, calling the Silicon Valley giant’s plans “an alarming capitulation.”
