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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday demanded that Turkish authorities release four staff members of the LeMan magazine who were arrested for a publication purportedly depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Police in Türkiye detained the cartoonists on Monday.
The publication...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Tuesday criticized the deadly Israeli airstrike on Al-Baqa Café in Gaza that resulted in the death of Palestinian filmmaker and photojournalist Ismail Abu Hatab and injured freelance journalist Bayan Abusultan.
In commenting on the latest wave of...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned in a new report released Wednesday on Guatemala’s water crisis, which it stressed endangers the health and fundamental rights of millions of Guatemalans, particularly Indigenous communities and women.
The 88-page report, titled “Without Water, We Are Nothing: The...
A court in Algeria has sentenced French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes to seven years in prison on charges of “glorifying terrorism” and “possessing propaganda publications harmful to the national interest,” the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Tuesday.
Gleizes, who has...
An Algerian court upheld a verdict against French-Algerian writer and critic Boualem Sansal on Tuesday, sentencing him to five years in prison and a fine of 500,000 Algerian dinars (approximately $3,851).
The Algiers Court of Appeal upheld the sentence issued by the Criminal Court of First...
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday demanded that Malawian authorities investigate and prosecute armed men who attacked peaceful election protesters last week while police on scene declined to step in. The international rights organization stressed that immediate action is crucial to send a strong...
The UK High Court on Monday granted Palestine Action an urgent hearing to challenge the Home Secretary’s decision to proscribe the group as a terrorist organization under Schedule 2 of the Terrorism Act 2000, alongside terror organizations such as ISIS and Al Qaeda.
The urgent hearing will take...
US President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that terminates the majority of US sanctions imposed against Syria and associated designated persons, effective July 1.
Lifting sanctions will likely result in a significant opportunity for the Syrian economy. Sanctions against...
The Constitutional Court of Thailand suspended the nation’s prime minster (PM) Tuesday, ordering her to stop performing her duties following allegations of misconduct and serious ethical violations tied to a leaked phone conversation with a senior Cambodian leader.
Thirty-six senators filed a...
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is deepening at an alarming rate, a senior United Nations official warned on Monday, calling the suffering “unbearable” and condemning the “collective punishment of the Palestinian people” as unjustifiable.
Speaking to the UN Security Council, Assistant...
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