The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged both Taliban and Pakistani authorities on Thursday to investigate the killing of Afghan journalist Abdul Ghafor Abed. Abed, a provincial reporter for Taliban-controlled Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), was killed on October 15 while covering cross-border clashes between Taliban and Pakistani forces in  Zazai Maidan district of Afghanistan’s Khost [...]

The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan warned on Monday that the nation faces a renewed wave of armed violence, deepening human rights violations, and mass displacement, stating that the country’s political leaders have “deliberately stalled progress and brought South Sudan to yet another precipice.” The Commission’s mission to the African Union revealed [...]

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted on Thursday in a rare mortgage fraud case, facing charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution related to a 2020 home purchase in Norfolk, Virginia. In response to the indictment, James issued a statement describing the charges as “nothing more than a [...]

Young Moroccans took to the streets for the ninth consecutive night on Sunday, calling for an end to corruption and a change of government. The rallies have been organized online by the anonymous “GenZ 212” group, and have spread across the country since September 27. According to Morocco World News, a couple of hundred young [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday condemned Tajikistan’s authorities for wrongfully imprisoning lawyer Buzurgmehr Yorov for 10 years and urged his release, citing politically motivated charges linked to his work representing opposition figures. Buzurgmehr Yorov was arrested in September 2015. Authorities raided his home and office without a warrant and charged him with forgery, fraud, [...]

Slovenia announced on Thursday that it has imposed a travel ban on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, becoming the first European Union (EU) nation to target the Israeli leader with such a measure. The government said the move “follows measures already adopted against two extremist Israeli ministers” earlier this year. Neva Grasic, secretary for Slovenia’s [...]

Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday urged Kazakhstan to drop allegedly politically motivated charges against satirical blogger Temirlan Ensebek, and encouraged the government to respect Ensebek’s freedom of expression. Temirlan Ensebek was charged with “inciting interethnic discord” under Article 174 of Kazakhstan’s Criminal Code and now faces up to seven years in prison. This is primarily [...]

The Coroner’s Court in Northern Ireland ruled on Thursday that the use of lethal force by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in 1992 was “not justified.” The incident resulted in the killing of four members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The judgment found that the SAS, a specialist British military force, did not [...]

Foreign Minister Gideon Saar formally announced on Thursday that Israel will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). According to Saar’s letter, addressed to the UNHRC president, the decision was reached “in light of the ongoing and unrelenting institutional bias against Israel in the Human Rights Council.” Saar further wrote: The UNHRC has [...]

In a statement issued Wednesday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Ethiopian authorities for shutting down two prominent human rights organizations in recent weeks, deepening an ongoing crackdown against civil society. An Ethiopian government body overseeing civil society ordered a halt to the operations of the Ethiopian Human Rights Council and Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders Center in [...]