“Where are you, Sepehr?” The question is not philosophical when it is first spoken. It is a question asked by a body that has been deprived of the body it seeks. Somewhere inside an unidentified warehouse, thousands of corpses lie beneath identical coverings, arranged without the distinctions through which the living ordinarily recognize one another. [...]

UN experts on Wednesday called on Pakistan to immediately release human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha and to drop all charges against them, which they say have no justifiable basis. Mazari-Hazir and Chattha were rearrested on September 17, 2026 on charges relating to an alleged illegal protest from March 2025. The arrest [...]

Tennessee governor Bill Lee on Thursday announced a pause on the remaining executions in the state after Christa Pike, who was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday for her role in a 1995 murder, had survived the two doses of lethal injections. After being administered two dosages of pentobarbital, a drug used in single-drug executions [...]

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) released a new report Wednesday finding that more than one in five households surveyed in Lebanon said their children went to bed hungry in the two weeks before July 2026 interviews. The report, An Enduring Nightmare, documents the toll on children’s access to food, healthcare, and education in an active conflict zone, drawing [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday condemned the detention of South Sudanese political commentator Samuel Peter Oyay, who has been held in a UAE prison for one year without charge. Joey Shea, senior UAW researcher for HRW spoke of UAE’s policies of repressing dissent, stating: The UAE government’s zero-tolerance policy toward peaceful criticism is increasingly [...]

The State of Michigan has an opportunity to go above and beyond the minimum for all its voters. Given the stakes of the upcoming 2026 midterm elections and the challenges it will likely present, Michigan must expand early in-person voting beyond the mandatory nine days, up to the full 29 days authorized by law. Nationwide, [...]

The trial of Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a 67-year-old Haitian American pastor, began Monday in the US District Court in Miami. Sanon is accused of helping orchestrate the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. The trial is opening more than five years after Moïes was shot dead at his private residence near Port-au-Prince. Sanon faces eight [...]

Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Monday dismissed a challenge to the country’s general election held in February, holding that barcodes and QR codes printed on ballots did not violate the constitutional guarantee of a secret ballot. Section 83 of Thailand’s 2017 Constitution requires that members of the House of Representatives be elected by “direct and secret [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday condemned Malian soldiers and members of the Russian private military company Wagner Group for perpetration of war crimes, including the murder and torture of civilians. Commenting on the need for accountability and justice for the victims of war crimes committed by Malian soldiers and allied forces, Marceau Sivieude, Amnesty International’s regional [...]