The Committee to Protect Journalists urged Hungarian authorities on Wednesday to immediately drop all espionage charges against investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi. Panyi is an investigative journalist covering Hungarian national security, foreign policy, and Russian and Chinese influence. He recently reported on alleged ties between Hungarian political actors and Russia. The investigation sparked accusations from Hungarian [...]

Casinos in Cambodia operate free from state intervention despite being linked to human rights abuses, warned Amnesty International on Thursday. The human rights organization said at least a dozen casinos are connected directly to scamming compounds, where torture, forced labor, child labor and human trafficking have occurred. Amnesty’s regional co-director Montse Ferrer called out the [...]

As seven protesters and dissidents in Iran face imminent execution after four men were reported to have been secretly and arbitrarily executed within 24 hours, Amnesty International on Tuesday called for global intervention and an immediate halt to all scheduled executions in the country. The organization reported that the executions are tied to Iran’s ongoing [...]

Migrant workers in Gulf countries face heightened political, social and economic risks from violence caused by the ongoing Middle East conflict, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Wednesday. Michael Page, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at HRW, warned about the gravity of the situation, stating: Millions of migrant workers employed across the Gulf countries [...]

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk warned on Wednesday that repression of freedom of expression across the Middle East has deepened significantly since the US-Israeli attacks on Iran commenced at the end of February. In Iran, approximately 2,345 people have been arrested on charges related to “national security.” Many of these,  as well as more [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday urged Russia to fulfill its obligations under international law and restore access to internet and communication networks in light of continuing censorship and protestor arrests. Russian authorities continue to impose broad mobile internet and cellular access shutdowns under apparently pretextual public safety justifications, with some of the closure orders lasting up [...]

Australia’s online safety regulator on Tuesday raised concerns over compliance by major social media platforms with the country’s social media ban for minors, warning that it is currently investigating the matter. The regulatory body, eSafety, released a compliance report showing “a number of poor practices that give rise to compliance concerns,” including “enabling” minors to [...]

President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday assented to the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, a measure that Amnesty International says restricts the ability of transgender and gender-diverse individuals to self-identify. Aakar Patel, chair of Amnesty International India’s board, criticized the law, stating: “This regressive law dilutes safeguards and deepens state intrusion into the [...]

A coalition of United Nations experts on Tuesday issued a press release calling for Taliban authorities to immediately lift their ban on Afghan women entering UN premises, calling the policy a clear violation of international law with life-threatening humanitarian consequences. Since returning to power in 2021, the Taliban has imposed sweeping restrictions on women’s participation [...]

UN experts urged Türkiye to stop criminalizing members of human rights groups and lawyers in a press release on Tuesday, criticizing misuse of an anti-terrorism law. The special rapporteurs cited seven incidents in the last year where members or lawyers of the Human Rights Association (İHD) were investigated, arrested or jailed through the law. They highlighted [...]