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This comment was written on Ngiyampaa Wangaibon Country. I pay my respects to the custodians that have cared for this Country for time immemorial. I acknowledge when First Nations Peoples thrive, all of Australia benefits. A recent Australian referendum that aimed to strengthen the presence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples within the country’s [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Tuesday saying that Israel is executing repeated and unlawful attacks on healthcare facilities, personnel and transport and that these attacks should be investigated as war crimes. HRW also expressed concern about Israel cutting off access to electricity, water and humanitarian aid, saying the country’s actions were “further [...]

The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced on Friday that Conservative MP Bob Stewart was found guilty in a Westminster Magistrates court of racially abusing a Bahraini activist outside of an event hosted by the Government of Bahrain in December 2022, after a one day trial. Stewart had told Sayed Ahmed Alwadei to “go back [...]

On Wednesday, two people targeted a Berlin, Germany synagogue with molotov cocktails, a type of homemade firebomb, and rioters in Tunisia burned down the historic El Hamma synagogue. The attacks came as tensions continue to boil over in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent siege of Gaza. Berlin police [...]

On Thursday the UK Home Office announced new procedures for asylum seekers who refuse to be housed on the Bibby Stockholm barge after the UK High Court upheld the Home Office’s plans to force 39 asylum seekers to return to the barge. The new rules state that if a person refuses the offered asylum on [...]

UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) authorized a murder charge on Wednesday against an acting police officer over the fatal shooting of Chris Kaba, a Black man, on September 6, 2022. CPS charged the officer with murder after he shot and killed Kaba with a single bullet in south London. The officer’s name will remain anonymous [...]

The UK’s Brook House Inquiry published a report Tuesday detailing an investigation into the mistreatment of individuals detained at the Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in the UK. The inquiry, chaired by Kate Eves, was set up to investigate incidents at the centre that took place between April 1, 2017, and August 21, 2017. The [...]

The family of EU Diplomat Johan Floderus continue to push for his release as the Swedish citizen turns 33 in Iranian prison. The family of detained the Swedish native  released a statement on Sunday appealing for his release from Iran. He was first arrested on 17 April 2022 at Tehran Airport. Since then, Floderus has [...]

Iranian authorities arrested at least a dozen activists on Saturday ahead of the anniversary of nationwide protests that erupted in September 2022, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW). Last year, protests broke out across the region in response to the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after Iranian morality police arrested her [...]

The UK’s Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday that they have charged two men and a woman with ‘identity document offences.’ The Met’s statement came after the BBC reported the group was accused of spying for Russia. Those charged, said to be Bulgarian nationals, were remanded to custody in February before being released on police bail. [...]