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Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Wednesday documenting the Russian government’s crackdown on fundamental civic liberties following its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The report, titled “Russia’s Legislative Minefield: Tripwires for Civil Society since 2020,” underscores that the suppression is a continuation of an existing trend that has continued for more than [...]

German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann told a local magazine on Tuesday that he advises Germans against travelling to Russia, stressing that no one has been safe in Russia for a long time. Buschmann’s comments came in the wake of a recent prisoner exchange with Russia, in which Germany played a pivotal role. The complex negotiations [...]

The German Federal Court of Justice rejected former Syrian senior intelligence officer Anwar Raslan’s appeal against his crimes against humanity conviction on Monday. Raslan entered Germany in 2014. In January 2022, Raslan was convicted of crimes against humanity in “the form of homicide, torture, serious deprivation of personal liberty, rape and sexual assault in coincidence [...]

The UN on Monday announced that nine staff members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) may have been involved in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and have consequently been dismissed. The firings come after an investigation by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) examined [...]

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Monday that the country’s threat level is being increased from “possible to probable” at a press conference in Canberra with Mike Burgess, the Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. The officials cited an increase in extremist views in the country leading to a more than 50% chance of [...]

Students Against Discrimination, a Bangladeshi activist group, urged locals to continue protests against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina following deadly protests over civil service quotas. The quota system, which reserved government jobs for the descendants of liberation war veterans, sparked massive civil unrest led by student activists last month, which resulted in the deaths of over [...]

UNCHR Regional Refugee Coordinator for the Sudan situation Mamadou Dian Balde said Friday that famine has now been officially declared in Sudan’s North Darfur region and urged action after famine conditions have been confirmed in North Darfur’s Zamzam camp where “nearly 26 million people are struggling to put enough food on their plates every single [...]

The Bangladeshi government banned Thursday Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student organization Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir, on the charges of crimes against humanity and “terrorist activities” in the country’s quota reform movement. Under Section 18 of Bangladesh’s Anti-Terrorism Act, if an organization is reasonably suspected to be a terrorist organization, the government can freeze its financial assets, [...]

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a thematic report on Wednesday, documenting the detention of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory against the backdrop of escalating hostilities in Gaza. The report titled “Detention in the context of the escalation of hostilities in Gaza (October 2023-June 2024)” entails accounts [...]

Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday morning, according to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard-affiliated Tasnim news agency. Hamas immediately accused Israel of the killing in a statement. Haniyeh had previously claimed the office of Palestinian Prime Minister following the Hamas-Fatah split, and he continued to hold Hamas leadership [...]