Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged US Congress on Monday to restore Radio Free Asia’s Uyghur service to ensure journalists can continue reporting in one of China’s most isolated regions. RSF noted that the announcement to close the Uyghur language service of Radio Free Asia (RFA) will have a long-lasting impact on the reporting of atrocities [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the military of Burkina Faso on Monday of orchestrating massacres of Fulani civilians between March 14 and April 22 under the auspices of a counter-terrorism operation against Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wa al-Muslimeen (JNIM), which allegedly retaliated through the targeted killings of civilians viewed as supportive of the military. The military [...]
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated on Sunday that Russia was behind the fire at the Marywilska shopping center in Warsaw last year, warning that Poland will continue investigating the matter and hold the responsible individuals accountable. Tusk stated on X: “We now know for sure that the great fire of the Marywilska shopping center [...]
The Bangladesh interim government banned all activities of the Awami League, the main opposition party, on Saturday. The advisory council, led by Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, also amended the International Crimes Tribunal Act. The change allows the tribunal to penalize political parties, their affiliated groups, and supporters. The government said the ban [...]
Pakistani and Indian officials announced an immediate ceasefire Saturday after days of escalation, sparked by a devastating terrorist attack. The ceasefire was brokered between the two countries with the involvement of US Secretary of State Marko Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, who acted as mediators between the two governments. The already tense relations between [...]
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday called for the immediate release of Russian journalist Veronika Orlova, who was sentenced to 13 days of administrative detention after filming the aftermath of an anti-Putin protest in Moscow earlier this week. Orlova, a reporter for independent outlet SOTAvision, was arrested Tuesday near Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, where [...]
Human Rights Watch on Friday called for the immediate release of Trinh Ba Phuong, a prominent Vietnamese human rights activist, condemning what it described as an intensifying campaign by the Vietnamese government to silence peaceful dissent. Phuong, who is already serving a 10-year prison sentence under Article 117 of Vietnam’s penal code for criticizing the [...]
An international coalition of states on Friday formally endorsed the establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine within the Council of Europe. The endorsement came during a high-level event in Lviv attended by Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, European Commissioner Michael McGrath, High Representative Kaja Kallas, and representatives from the [...]
A US federal judge on Friday ordered the release of Turkish national and PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk. Öztürk was detained by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in March after her student F-1 visa was revoked, and has remained in custody for several weeks. In April, US District Judge William Sessions in Burlington ordered her [...]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned India on Friday for its “alarming” censorship of news media amid escalating military tensions with Pakistan. Head of the RSF South Asia desk Célia Mercier stated: At a time of extreme military tensions with Pakistan, blocking online media and social media accounts is a dramatic violation of the right to [...]
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