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Shiite Iran continues to criminalize women’s right’s activism, designating “peaceful” female advocates as “enemies of the state” and using its elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to crack down on them, reports human rights watchdog Amnesty International.

The European Union and journalist associations expressed concern Thursday about a widening crackdown on media in Turkey, calling on Ankara to respect fundamental freedoms.

Schoolchildren are being detained for alleged acts of treason and prisoners “are being subjected to beatings and torture, including rape” in the wake of the failed military coup attempt against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to lawyers and a human rights organization.

ISTANBUL (AP) — Amnesty International on Friday urged the European Union to stop plans to return asylum-seekers to Turkey. The rights group issued a 35-page briefing saying the EU-Turkey deal to curb irregular migration was “illegal” and “reckless.” Turkey is

48-year-old Huang Yu, a computer technician in the Sichuan Province of southwestern China, has been sentenced to death for leaking over 150,000 classified documents to an unspecified foreign spy agency, according to Chinese state television.

Ankara (AFP) – Turkey on Saturday vehemently rejected accusations by Amnesty International that it was forcibly returning Syrian refugees to the conflict-torn country, as Ankara prepares to take back, under an EU deal, Syrians who travelled illegally to Greece. “The

TEL AVIV – Only the most demented of minds could single out the sole democracy in the Middle East, the country that goes much further than any other nation on earth to protect civilians in the battle field, and accuse said nation of possibly committing “gross violations of human rights.”

TEL AVIV – Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has penned a letter asking Secretary of State John Kerry to probe claims that Israeli and Egyptian security forces have committed “gross violations of human rights.” The letter strongly implies that if the

Saudi Arabia has sentenced a journalist to five years in prison after he insulted the kingdom’s rulers on Twitter while supporting the right of women to drive.

Contents: EU desperation continues on second day of EU-Turkey refugee deal; Humanitarian agencies condemn the EU-Turkey refugee deal

(Reuters) – A draft European Union plan to send back some migrants to Turkey has legal and moral flaws and could put vulnerable people at risk, the head of Amnesty International said, calling on Europe to take in more people

Contents: Bizarre EU-Turkey one-for-one refugee deal meets strong opposition; Europe faces two additional major crises: Grexit and Brexit

Anti-death-penalty activists have been asking the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to cut some $20 million in funding for Iran’s anti-drug campaign, because Iran executes too many people. The latest evidence against Iran is an astounding report that every adult male in a certain village was executed for drug offenses.

In the ongoing crusade by the abortion lobby to exploit the Zika crisis to pressure Latin American countries to relax their abortion laws, Amnesty International has taken the hyperbole to new heights, comparing El Salvador’s abortion laws to “torture and

Airstrikes hit four hospitals and a school building in northern Syria Monday, killing at least 50 people, according to various media reports.

The Islamic Republic of Iran leads the way in invoking capital punishment upon minors, forgoing a past pledge to do away with the death penalty for citizens under eighteen, Amnesty International said in a report released Monday.

“The Turkish government’s onslaught on Kurdish towns and neighborhoods, which includes round-the-clock curfews and cuts to services, is putting the lives of up to 200,000 people at risk and amounts to collective punishment,” Amnesty International said this week about the clash between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), particularly its militant youth wing, the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement (YDG-H).

Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Peshmerga forces have rejected a recent report by human rights NGO Amnesty International, accusing them of burning and destroying Arab homes in northern Iraq, as baseless, Rudaw reports.

The sexual assaults that marred New Year celebrations in Cologne and other cities across Germany, mostly perpetrated by young male immigrants from Syria and Iraq, is sadly nothing new. According to a new report by Amnesty International (AI), women travelling

The government of Saudi Arabia has reportedly released Samar Badawi, a prominent human rights activist who received the “International Woman of Courage Award” in 2012 from then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The Saudi government reportedly arrested a prominent human rights activist Tuesday who was awarded the “International Woman of Courage Award” in 2012 from Hillary Clinton, who was the U.S. secretary of state at the time

Although there has been rivalry among the various jihadist groups training and recruiting in North Africa, new pacts and agreements among the different strains of radical Islam have resulted in deeper collaboration, a harbinger of more trouble for those fighting the terrorists.

Amnesty International has expressed alarm at reports that the authorities in Saudi Arabia are planning to execute dozens of people in a single day. The newspaper Okaz said 55 people were awaiting execution for “terrorist crimes”, while a now-deleted report

The Norwegian government has launched a new Facebook campaign called “Stricter Asylum regulations in Norway” aimed at providing “factual” information for migrants regarding changing asylum laws. Human rights organisations have accused the page of fostering racism. “This Facebook page is

A new report from Amnesty International charges the Assad regime with making over 65,000 Syrians ‘disappear’ during four years of civil war, an “organized attack against the civilian population” carried out not just for political gain, but for profit.

Over 100,000 people have signed a petition demanding Amnesty International stop campaigning for abortion, claiming the group has “lost its longstanding moral credibility”. As the human rights group intensifies its campaign to legalise abortion in Ireland, it has come under

Cuban artist Danilo Maldonado, known by his stage name “El Sexto,” tells journalists he has no intention of censoring his art after being freed from a ten-month stint in prison after being caught painting the names “Fidel” and “Raúl” on two pigs.

The rights advocacy group Amnesty International has launched a high-level campaign calling for the decriminalization of abortion in Ireland, a crusade critics are denouncing as disingenuous and anti-Catholic.

French authorities want new European Union (EU) rules mandating all travelling EU nationals to scan their fingerprints and maybe even their faces. The introduction of Smart Borders, a digital dragnet system using biometric scans to identify visiting non-EU nationals, was discussed at an EU interior ministers

Amnesty International’s proposal to legalize prostitution has generated a fierce rebuttal from groups opposed to the exploitation of vulnerable women, who warn that such wrong-headed programs just perpetuate cycles of abuse and mistreatment of women.

The non-government organization Amnesty International issued an urgent call for the international community to pressure the communist Cuban government to release Danilo Maldonado Machado, an artist known as “El Sexto” who has spent ten months in prison for painting the names “Fidel” and “Raúl” on two pigs.

Following the viral spread of images depicting the bodies of drowned Syrians on a Turkish beach–including a three-year-old boy named Alan Kurdi–the Canadian left has sprung to attention to decry what they describe as the Conservative government’s inaction towards assisting migrants and war refugees.

The BBC has debunked a story, picked up by human rights NGO Amnesty International, alleging that two sisters in India were sentenced to rape because their brother eloped with a married woman.

More state-sanctioned per capita executions are taking place in Iran than anywhere else in the world.

One of Amnesty International’s most senior figures has been accused of multiple links to the Muslim Brotherhood, both through her husband, who was named in court papers as a British Islamist, and in her own right. The allegations bring into