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The Qatar Preventive Security Department arbitrarily arrests and abuses LGBTQ people, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Monday. Between 2019 and 2022, reporters found six cases of “severe and repeated beatings” and five cases of sexual harassment of people in custody. HRW interviewed six Qataris who were held “in an underground prison in Al Dafneh, Doha” [...]

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken Tuesday announced additional sanctions against the Taliban in response to what the US perceives as repression of women and girls in Afghanistan through violence and restrictive policies. Citing Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Blinken unveiled new restrictions on visas for current or former Taliban members, members [...]

British citizens Matthew Hedges and Ali Issa Ahmad Tuesday submitted sworn statements and testified to the UN’s Committee Against Torture (CAT) that they had been tortured by authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE joined the UN Convention against Torture in 2012 and is therefore subject to its first compliance review, which is [...]

An FBI warrant application was released Tuesday revealing a criminal investigation into whether former US Marine Corps General John R. Allen engaged in undisclosed lobbying for Qatar, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press and New York Times. In April, the FBI submitted a search warrant application with the US District Court for the [...]

Amnesty International, along with several other human rights organizations, Thursday released a letter to President of FIFA Gianni Infantino requesting that FIFA set aside at least $440 million to compensate migrant workers in Qatar, where the next FIFA World Cup is set to take place. Amnesty International has also released a public relations campaign encouraging [...]

The Latvian parliament Thursday voted to ban symbols of military aggression and war crimes from public display, including the letters “Z” and “V” and the Ribbon of Saint George, which are seen as symbols of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While the existing Law on the Safety of Public Entertainment and Festivity Events (the Law) [...]

The Russian-Ukrainian crisis started to deteriorate in early 2021 when Ukraine arrested pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk on allegations of conspiring a coup d’etat, and Russia initiated military exercises near the Ukrainian border. Russia is the second-largest oil producer, trailing only the United States, and the third-leading oil exporter, behind Saudi Arabia and the United Arab [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced Monday that Qatar had imposed travel bans on four prominent Qatari citizens without a clear legal basis. The men reported to HRW that security authorities were applying the travel bans outside of legal procedure and in apparent defiance of court orders. Qatar’s state security apparatus holds extensive powers under the [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a law student in Kabul reports on some recent developments and wonders about the rationale of US policy in Afghanistan.  For privacy and security reasons we are withholding the name and institutional affiliation of our [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement Monday on the forced disappearance of Hossam Menoufy Mahmoud Sallam by Egyptian security authorities earlier this month. HRW called for authorities to immediately release Menoufy’s location and reveal the legal basis for his arrest. Menoufy was a passenger on a direct flight from Khartoum, Sudan to Istanbul, Turkey [...]