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09/07/2025

The case of Kilmar Abrego García, shunted from detention in one country to another, with no end in sight, recalls the World War II-era classic of dystopian fiction The Twenty-Fifth Hour by Romanian writer C. Virgil Gheorghiu. The wartime transnational... Read morePodcast: The Twenty-Fifth Hour revi...

09/06/2025

Amnesty International called on the Syrian government to undertake concrete measures, including a nationwide search for tens of thousands who disappeared under the Assad regime, to deliver truth, justice and reparations for the victims and their families. A new report... Read moreSyria urged to inve...

09/06/2025

The New York chapter of Students for a Free Tibet held a rally outside the Chinese consulate in Manhattan to demand freedom for A-Nya Sengdra, an imprisoned Tibetan nomad leader and ecologist. Sengdra, who had long campaigned against corruption, illegal... Read moreDemand release of imprisoned Tibet...

09/04/2025

Future plans for the Gaza Strip currently circulating among United States government officials call for for the relocation of the entire population to make way for construction of tourist resorts and tech industry hubs under a decade of US administrative... Read moreWhite House plans revealed for ma...

09/04/2025

Days of popular protest in Indonesia exploded into violence after Affan Kurniawan, a motorbike delivery worker, was fatally struck by a police vehicle in Jakarta. The worker had not even been participating in the protest when armored vehicles ploughed into... Read morePolice automotive terror sparks...

09/02/2025

The US military could face legal responsibility for assisting Israeli forces that commit war crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated. Direct participation by US forces in military operations in Gaza since October 2023, including by providing intelligence for Israeli strikes... Read moreHRW sees US l...

09/02/2025

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09/01/2025

The Israeli cabinet will convene to discuss annexation of areas of the West Bank, local media report. The discussion has been called in light of the recently-approved settlement construction plan spearheaded by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, which will see some 3,400... Read moreIsraeli cabinet....

08/31/2025

Kilmar Abrego García, released from extrajudicial detention in El Salvador, now fights deportation to Uganda. Hundreds of the Venezuelans sent by the US to the Salvadoran prison gulag have now been returned to Venezuela in a prisoner swap. But El... Read morePodcast: MAGA-fascism and the struggle i...

08/30/2025

Amnesty International condemned the lack of accountability for the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghur Muslims in western Xinjiang region, noting that nearly three years have passed since a groundbreaking UN report detailed gross violations of international law against the ethnic group. In... R...

08/29/2025

UN human rights experts condemned what they described as escalating repression against the Khmer Krom people in Vietnam, urging authorities to cease targeting minority communities through security laws, and to release those detained for peaceful activity. The experts reported that... Read moreVietna...

08/28/2025

The Israeli military's extensive destruction of civilian property and agricultural land across southern Lebanon must be investigated as war crimes, Amnesty International said in a new research briefing. The report, entitled "Nowhere to Return: Israel's Extensive Destruction of Southern Lebanon,".......