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Uttar Pradesh police Saturday registered their first case under the Indian state’s newly promulgated anti-conversion ordinance. The case is based on a complaint by a Bareilly resident against Uvaish Ahmad, a Muslim man, who alleged that Ahmad had been stalking his daughter for more than a year, attempting to “coerce, coax, and allure” her into [...]

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UN human rights experts Friday condemned the arrest of three high ranking human rights activists from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). The individuals arrested are Gasser Abdel Razek ( Executive Director ), Karim Ennarah (Director of criminal justice), and Mohammad Basheer (Administrative Manager). Egyptisan authorities justified the arrests by allegations of terrorism-related charges, [...]

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The UK and France signed an agreement aiming to reduce illegal immigration across the English Channel Saturday. The deal was signed by British Home Secretary Priti Patel and French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. In 2020 alone, at least 8,000 illegal immigrants arriving in small boats have crossed the Channel. This represents a vast increase compared to [...]

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The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has commenced a mass trial against 139 activists and supporters of the former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) charged with conspiracy to commit treason and incitement to commit felony over their involvement in non-violent political activities. The CNRP was the sole opposition party in the parliament of Cambodia. The party had [...]

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The European Parliament has passed a resolution on “the deteriorating situation of human rights in Algeria.” The resolution focused on the imprisonment of journalist Mohamed Khaled Drareni.  Through this resolution, the European Parliament condemned “the escalation of arbitrary and unlawful arrests, detentions, and judicial harassment of journalists, human rights defenders, trade unionists, lawyers, civil society, and peaceful [...]

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Thousands of citizens gathered across France Saturday to protest proposed legislation that would criminalize sharing recorded images of police officers. The collective, called “Stop Loi Sécurité Globale” or Stop Global Security Law, is composed of journalists’ unions, human rights nongovernment organizations, and other groups. The amended legislation would make it illegal to disseminate, by any [...]

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John Brennan, CIA Director between 2013 and 2017, took to Twitter Friday to condemn the reported assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, labeling it as “criminal”, “highly reckless”, adding that if it were found to be a “state-sponsored attack,” it would be a “flagrant violation of international law.” According to Iranian news reports, Fakhrizadeh was [...]

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Thousands of farmers descended on India’s capital Friday to protest legislation passed in September that liberalizes the agricultural goods market. The legislation allows farmers to sell their produce anywhere instead of in state-mandated markets, changes the conditions under which the government may regulate the market in essential goods, and provides a framework under which farmers [...]

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The prosecutor-general of Azerbaijan said in an interview Wednesday that his office is looking into allegations of war crimes during the recent conflict between his nation and Armenia over the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region. United Nations Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet has already raised the alarm about possible war crimes, issuing a statement on November 2 [...]

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The European Court of Human Rights held Friday that the deportation of Charles Unuane, a Nigerian national convicted of falsifying documents, violated Article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Unuane, a Nigerian national who has been living in the UK since 1998, had been convicted of falsifying documents [...]

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