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Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday called for an immediate investigation into the massacre of dozens of civilians in Burkina Faso’s city of Solenzo on March 10 and 11. In its statement, HRW highlighted video footage circulating on social media implicating pro-government militias in the killings, raising serious concerns about accountability and civilian protection in [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on Friday for the immediate release of investigative journalists Bashdar Bazyani and Sherwan Sherwani, alleging that their detention by authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan is based on baseless accusations intended to silence critical reporting. Bazyani, the founder of the newly established digital media outlet Media21, was arrested by Kurdish security forces [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) warned on Thursday that Türkiye’s newly approved cybersecurity bill could undermine press freedom by criminalizing legitimate reporting and granting the government extensive surveillance powers over cyberspace. The CPJ criticized the new law for imposing a prison sentence of two to five years for any individual who “knowingly creates or [...]

A Guatemala appeals court has overturned the house arrest orders imposed on journalist José Rubén Zamora on March 4, according to a statement published by Amnesty International on Wednesday. Following the court’s ruling, Zamora was returned to jail on Monday. Amnesty International condemned the re-imprisonment of Zamora, calling his new arrest arbitrary and part of [...]

A group of 20 human rights organizations said on Monday that Bulgarian authorities should suspend plans to deport Saudi human rights defender Abdulrahman al-Khalidi to Saudi Arabia and allow his resettlement to a third country. Al-Khalidi has been a human rights defender and prisoners’ rights advocate for over a decade. After fleeing Saudi Arabia in [...]

UN Special Rapporteurs and Independent Experts on human rights expressed concerns Monday about the ongoing erosion of fundamental freedoms in the Slovak Republic, including the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression. They urged the government to stop surveillance of political opponents and other actions in breach of international law. The experts pointed out [...]

In this long read op-ed for JURIST by Shadi Sadr, a human rights lawyer and PhD candidate at Leiden University, Sadr discusses the Rojava Tribunal, a session of the Permanent People’s Tribunal, focusing on alleged international law violations by Turkey in Rojava, Syria. Held in a complex geopolitical context, the tribunal charges included aggression and [...]

India on Monday strongly rebuked UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk for his remarks on Kashmir and Manipur, calling them “unfounded and baseless.” The sharp response came after Turk, in his global update at the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, raised concerns over violence and displacement in Manipur [...]

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Bulgaria violated the European Convention on Human Rights by denying a journalist access to the acquittal judgment of a former Minister of Internal Affairs in a high-profile criminal case. The court found that Bulgaria’s refusal to provide access to the judgment violated Article 10 of [...]

The Bombay High Court on Monday directed the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to halt the proceedings on a Special Court order requiring a First Information Report (FIR) against former Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch, three SEBI officials, and two Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) executives. Justice Shivkumar Dighe issued the interim [...]