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Tag: Human Rights and Human Rights Violations

Iran Carries Out Second Execution Linked to Protests

Some Iranians describe a growing climate of fear. Mina, a 26-year-old resident of Tehran, said her parents had cried after the first execution and...

Deadly Fire in China Fuels Protests Over Xi’s Covid Policies

“We do not consider this a credible explanation,” the BBC said.Crowds also congregated in Chengdu, a city in southwest China, video from Sunday showed,...

Hosting Climate Summit Is Both Opportunity and Risk for Egypt

CAIRO — Biodegradable drinking straws and recycling bins, beach strolls and electric shuttles, a complete ban on plastic bags: For months, Egypt has...

Ukrainian Medic’s Months in Russian Cell: Cold, Dirty and Used as a Prop

KYIV, Ukraine — During the siege of Mariupol, in southern Ukraine, Russians pounded the city with artillery and blocked civilian escape routes, creating one...

How China Is Policing the Future

The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched. They are recorded by police cameras that are everywhere, on street corners...

U.K. Vows to Press Ahead With Rwanda Deportations

LONDON — The British government on Wednesday promised to press on with plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, a day after a flight...

China Spins U.N. Human Rights Chief’s Visit as Propaganda

The news was given prime placement in Chinese state media: The United Nations’ human rights chief, on her long-awaited visit to the country, had...

In Kazakh Uprising, Reports of Widespread Abuses by Security Forces

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — One evening in early January, Yerlan Zhagiparov left his home to see what was happening nearby at the city’s Republic Square,...

The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon

The Mexico example revealed both the promise and the perils of working with NSO. In 2017, researchers at Citizen Lab, a watchdog group based...

How China’s Xi Jinping Is Staging the Beijing Olympics on His Terms

When the International Olympic Committee met seven years ago to choose a host for the 2022 Winter Games, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, sent a...

ISIS Fighters Attack Syria Prison to Free Fellow Jihadists

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Fighters from the Islamic State attacked a prison in northeast Syria in an attempt to free thousands of their comrades, one...

Pay Your Power Bill, Myanmar Soldiers Say, or Pay With Your Life

“In the past 10 months, the country has lost all its gains from the past 10 years,” said U Hein Maung, an economist based...

Cambodia’s Internet May Soon Be Like China’s: State-Controlled

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The day Kea Sokun was arrested in Cambodia, four men in plainclothes showed up at his photography shop near Angkor...

Djokovic Stay at Park Hotel Highlights Australia Asylum Seeker Plight

MELBOURNE, Australia — The people demonstrating outside the Park Hotel in Melbourne on Saturday were a disparate group.Some were Serb-Australians and anti-vaccine campaigners, there...

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