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Nineteen Sahrawi activists languish in prison years after Moroccan courts convicted them in unfair proceedings, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. The convictions of the so-called Gdeim Izik group stemmed from their purported role in lethal violence that erupted on November 8, 2010, when Moroccan police dismantled a protest encampment in Western Sahara. […]

ACT-Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro wants law enforcement agencies to be more proactive in investigating the killing of veteran broadcaster Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa as well the alleged cases of harassment against media practitioners in the country. ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France

Sweden: Step up efforts to fight systemic racism, urge UN experts

Sweden should step up efforts to fight systemic racism and focus on strategies to restore trust between police and minority groups, the United Nations International Independent Expert Mechanism to advance racial justice in the context of law enforcement said Friday after a five-day visit to the country.

Apetition seeking the cancellation of 40-day regular parole granted to Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh has been filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. It is alleged that the respondent (Ram Rahim) is conducting online ‘satsangs’ with his followers and also released a

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a new report detailing the mistreatment of Afghan women, who were wrongfully detained with their families for protesting against Taliban abuses.

The regime closed all Islamic bookshops in Dushanbe in August and September, as well as some publishers of Islamic literature. The regime has also continued demands that non-Muslim religious communities complete intrusive questionnaires. Some suggested family information is being collected "so that it will be easy to identify us and our family members if in future they decide to target us". "All mosques are under total state control," human rights defenders observed, "so...

Three Afghan women detained for protesting Taliban abuses described torture and other severe mistreatment in custody. The women said they were wrongfully detained with their families, including small children, and experienced threats, beatings, dangerous conditions of confinement, denial of due process, abusive conditions of release, and other abuses.

The Egyptian authorities are holding state critics and political opponents in cruel and inhuman conditions in Badr 3 Prison, Amnesty International said today, as Egypt prepares to host COP27, the annual UN Climate Change Conference, in Sharm El-Sheikh in November.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday released a new report detailing the mistreatment of Afghan women, who were wrongfully detained with their families for protesting Taliban abuses.