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  • Maxime Prevot, the foreign minister of Belgium, said on Saturday that Palestinians, Catholic delegates, and Western diplomats and officials had been attacked by masked settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
  • Three men were sentenced to more than 158 years in prison by a Mexican court on Friday for the 2024 murders of two Australian surfers and their American companion.
  • The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen claims to have intercepted three drones in the southern and Riyadh regions, two cruise missiles over the Red Sea, and a ballistic missile headed for the Saudi city of Yanbu. In the
  • said it is targeting Houthi positions in Taiz and Marib.
  • A missile attack on Aden International Airport put 151 passengers on a Yemenia flight headed for Cairo in danger, the transport minister of Yemen's internationally recognized government said.
  • The Amazon rainforest in Brazil has seen the least amount of deforestation in almost 40 years.
  • Heidi Levine, a journalist for the Washington Post, was injured on Friday after being assaulted by some Israeli settlers while working in the occupied West Bank.
  • Ahead of the country's April 2027 presidential election, French President Emmanuel Macron claimed on Wednesday that political forces are "exploiting" the country's student protesters..
  • Authorities said at a press conference that the mass shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday that claimed the lives of three students and one teacher occurred inside a special needs classroom. They also identified the suspected shooter and some of the victims.

Tag: Human Rights Violations

June 7, 2022

Tank Cake on Eve of Tiananmen...

Chinese beauty influencer Austin Li, whose livestream was taken off the air after he displayed a tank-shaped cake on the eve of the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, June 3, 2022

June 4, 2022

China Rounds Up Dissidents,Activists Ahead of...

Authorities in China have ordered dozens of pro-democracy activists and dissidents into house arrest or other forms of restriction ahead of the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre on June 4

June 3, 2022

Jailed Changsha NGO Worker Subjected to...

The wife of one of the Changsha Funeng NGO workers jailed in the central Chinese province of Hunan says he is being subjected to physical abuse and mistreatment in Chishan Prison

May 27, 2022

Uyghur Sports Trainer Confirmed Arrested by...

A Uyghur athletic trainer who worked at a university in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region was arrested by Chinese authorities in 2017, said Uyghur sources with knowledge of the situation and officials in the region

May 25, 2022

Indonesia May Outlaw Gay Sex Amid...

Indonesia’s parliament is debating a bill that would outlaw so-called deviant sexual behavior, raising alarm among human rights activists about a possible increase in violence against LGBTQ people

May 24, 2022

Rape Used as Weapon by Both...

Rape has been used as a weapon by both sides in Ethiopia’s conflict with Tigrayan rebels, which began in November 2020. VOA spoke with 14 women in the northern Amhara region who claim they have been subjected to brutal sexual assaults by Tigrayan fighters and as a result have been ostracized by their communities

Indonesian Military Chief: Soldiers Named as...

Ten soldiers were named as suspects in the alleged torture deaths of at least six people who had been kept in two cage-like rooms in the house of a regency chief in North Sumatra province, Indonesia’s military chief said Monday

May 19, 2022

Uyghur Lecturer Said to be Detained...

A computer teacher from a university in the Xinjiang region has been detained by Chinese authorities since 2017 for failing to sign an oath of allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a Uyghur source in the town of Ghulja and local officials told RFA

May 18, 2022

Uyghur University Lecturer Confirmed Detained in...

A Uyghur lecturer from a university in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region has been sentenced to prison for “disregarding the national language,” by failing to teach in Chinese, a Uyghur source in the town of Ghulja and local officials told RFA

May 12, 2022

Authorities Warn Uyghurs Not to Talk...

The Chinese government has issued a new directive that forbids Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region from discussing the network of internment camps or accepting calls from international phone numbers ahead of an expected visit by the United Nations human rights chief, a police office in the region told RFA

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