News May 15, 2020 Op-Ed: Pro-Democracy Legislators in Hong Kong Need International Support The CCP is taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis to execute its vision of completely stripping Hong Kong of its remaining freedoms.
News Apr 25, 2020 Response to Associated Press from Garry Kasparov On April 24, in response to HRF’s letter to the Premier League regarding the impending purchase of Newcastle United, AP global sports reporter Rob Harris asked Garry Kasparov to expand…
News Mar 2, 2020 Dictatorships Are Making the Coronavirus Outbreak Worse (Wired) China, Iran, North Korea, and other authoritarian regimes have concealed information and exacerbated the spread of the disease.
News Jul 30, 2019 Human Trafficking Has a Hidden Cause — and It’s on the Rise Worldwide Tuesday is the U.N.’s World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. After nearly two decades of international commitment to end modern slavery, one thing is clear: States are simply not doing enough.
News Jul 9, 2019 Nicki Minaj pulls out of concert in Saudi Arabia ‘after better educating myself on the issues’ (Washington Post) Rapper Nicki Minaj has canceled her concert appearance in Saudi Arabia amid calls to pull out due to the country’s human rights violations.
News Aug 2, 2018 Comoros leader says wins vote to extend presidential term limits (Reuters) – Comoros President Azali Assoumani has won a referendum to extend presidential term limits and end a system of rotating power among the archipelago’s three main islands by an…
News Jan 12, 2018 Rohingya children left stranded amid garbage and muck in Myanmar Tens of thousands of Rohingya children have been left “trapped and almost forgotten” in remote, squalid camps and isolated villages in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the UN has said. Stringent restrictions…
News Jan 26, 2018 Human Rights Defenders sentenced to 7 and 14 years by Saudi Court This morning, January 25, 2018, the Specialised Criminal Court (SCC) handed down jail sentences of seven years for rights activist Abdullah bin Mudhhi al-Atawi and 14 years for rights activist…
News Jan 25, 2018 Violence in CAR Sparks ‘Unprecedented’ Levels of Displacement (UN News Centre) – Surging violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) has put unprecedented numbers of people on the run, the United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday, reporting that…
News Jan 25, 2018 Rights group fears for detained Bahrain activist BEIRUT — A human rights group says the life of an imprisoned activist in Bahrain is at risk because he has been denied adequate medical care and is being held…
News Jan 25, 2018 Thailand charges nine in anti-government protests dating to 2013 (Reuters) – Thailand on Wednesday charged nine leaders of anti-government protests in 2013 and 2014 with inciting insurrection and sedition in an attempt to oust Yingluck Shinawatra, who was prime…
News Jan 16, 2018 Human rights undermined in Hong Kong, says Ashdown Freedoms in Hong Kong have been increasingly eroded and human rights have been undermined, according to a report by Paddy Ashdown, the former Liberal Democrat leader in the UK, that…
News Jan 15, 2018 Philippines Shuts Down News Site Critical of Rodrigo Duterte MANILA — The Philippines ordered the closing on Monday of an independent online news site that has been critical of President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration, prompting protests from industry groups who…
News Jan 15, 2018 Bahrain court upholds jail sentence against rights activist Rajab (Reuters) – Bahrain’s top court on Monday upheld a two-year prison sentence imposed last year by a lower tribunal on rights campaigner Nabeel Rajab over comments he was alleged to…
News Jan 12, 2018 Azerbaijani Journalist Gets Six-Year Sentence (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) – A court in Azerbaijan has sentenced journalist Afqan Muxtarli to six years in prison after convicting him of smuggling and other crimes in a politically…
News Jan 12, 2018 Ethiopia Is Falling Apart (Foreign Policy) – For a brief moment last week, Ethiopia seemed poised to shed its reputation as Africa’s Stasi state. At a press conference on Jan. 3, Ethiopian Prime Minister…
News Jan 12, 2018 China church demolition sparks fears of campaign against Christians A church in northern China was demolished this week, the second in less than a month, sparking fears of a wider campaign against Christians as authorities prepare to enforce new…
News Jan 11, 2018 Ethiopia top opposition figure gets prison time for contempt (ABC News) – One of Ethiopia’s most prominent opposition politicians has been sentenced to six months in prison for contempt of court along with three others after they sang a protest song during proceedings.
News Jan 11, 2018 ‘The New Normal’ in Pakistan: a Journalist on the Run From Gunmen (The New York Times) – Fearing that his attackers would spot him from a distance, the investigative journalist Taha Siddiqui threw off his bright red sweater as he jumped into a ditch and crawled through mud and shrubs to reach a highway in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi.
