Headlines- 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
Uyghur University Lecturer Serving 10-Year Sentence...
Uyghur professor and translator has been serving a 10-year sentence in a prison in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region for separatism and promoting Western culture, a former Uyghur classmate of the man and a village official confirmed to RFA this month, more than four years after his detention
Hundreds of Uyghurs Said to be...
Nearly 800 Uyghurs are being held in a detention camp in Manas county in northwestern China’s Xinjiang, said an official from the area who previously worked at the facility
UN Head Reiterates call for China...
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday again called on China to allow outside officials to visit Xinjiang to observe how the government is treating Uyghur Muslims there
Turkey Closes Uyghur School in Istanbul...
Authorities in Istanbul closed a Uyghur elementary school there allegedly at the request of the Chinese government officials who worried students were receiving anti-China instruction, the principal and the parents of students said
Tibetan Monks Sent to Labor Camps...
Eleven Tibetans beaten and arrested by Chinese authorities in January for spreading news of the destruction of a 99-foot-tall Buddha statue and dozens of prayer wheels in southwestern China’s Sichuan province have been sent to labor camps in the region, Tibetans with knowledge of the situation said Friday
China’s State Security Targets Family of...
As the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) gears up for the opening of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, state security police in Shanghai have forced the son of a retired Chinese sports team doctor who blew the whistle on organized doping to try to prevent her from publishing what she knows, on pain of losing his home
Uyghurs Jailed For Religious ‘Crimes’ Believed...
Two female members of an extended Muslim Uyghur family serving long prison sentences for committing religious “crimes” are believed to be held in a women’s prison in the town of Sanji (in Chinese, Changji) in China’s far-western Xinjiang region
Former Hong Kong Journalist in ‘Just...
One year after the U.K. launched a visa scheme allowing millions of Hongkongers and their families to emigrate to the country amid Beijing’ ongoing crackdown on freedom of speech and political activism, tens of thousands have already made the move, many of them hoping for a better life for their children
Attack in Peshawar: A Protestant Pastor...
Lethal attack on two Protestant pastors in Peshawar, in the north of Pakistan. Yesterday afternoon, January 30, two men on a motorbike opened fire on the car with two Protestant pastors on the Peshawar ring road near Madina market. Pastor William Siraj was killed and Pastor Patrick Naeem, who was seriously injured, is in hospital
Elderly Uyghur Widow Serving 17-Year Term...
An elderly Muslim Uyghur woman serving a long jail sentence for participating in religious gatherings in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region is being held in a women’s prison in the town of Sanji (in Chinese, Changji), detention center officials said