HRW slams Qatar for handing Baha’i leader five-year jail term
Human Rights Watch on Friday condemned a five-year jail sentence it said had been handed down by a Qatari court ...
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Syria vows accountability after video of Sweida hospital killing
Syria's interior ministry on Monday said it would hold accountable those responsible for the apparent killing of an unarmed man ...
Video of Syria hospital killing revives calls for independent Sweida probe
Syrian rights activists renewed their calls for an independent investigation into violence last month in Druze-majority Sweida province after footage ...
HRW slams ‘death trap’ US-backed aid centres in Gaza
Human Rights Watch on Friday accused Israeli forces operating outside US-backed aid centres in war-torn Gaza of routinely killing Palestinian ...
Major Israeli rights groups brand Gaza campaign ‘genocide’
Rights groups B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel said on Monday that they had concluded the war in Gaza ...
Iran says executions limited to ‘most severe crimes’ after UN criticism
Iran defended its use of the death penalty, saying it applies to only the most serious offences, after the United ...
UN urges UK to repeal ‘disproportionate’ Palestine Action ban
The United Nations rights chief on Friday slammed Britain's ban on activist group Palestine Action as a "disturbing" misuse of ...
Taliban says detained British couple receiving medical care
An elderly British couple detained for months in Afghanistan are receiving medical care, the Taliban government's top diplomat said Wednesday, ...
European court says Turkey did not provide ‘fair trial’ in app use case
A top European court on Tuesday ruled that Turkey had not given 239 opponents a fair trial when it jailed ...
X blasts India ‘censorship’ order on thousands of accounts
Social media platform X said Tuesday it was "deeply concerned" after the Indian government ordered it last week to block ...
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