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The UK announced new sanctions Friday against Russia directed at three units of the Russian military intelligence agency “GRU” and 18 military intelligence officers “responsible for spreading chaos and disorder on Putin’s orders” and malicious cyber activity over many years, according to local...
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk called for urgent accountability and a halt to escalating violence in the southern Syrian city of Suweida on Friday, following credible reports of mass killings, arbitrary executions, looting, and the forced displacement of civilians.
Speaking at a press...
UN experts on Thursday warned that the Peruvian Congress’ approval of a bill granting amnesty to persons who committed serious human rights violations during the internal armed conflict between 1980 and 2000 is contrary to international law.
The UN experts highlighted that individuals who...
Amnesty International denounced on Thursday new legislative amendments in Russia that strengthen the fight against extremism. The organization emphasized that new bills that allow groups to be declared “extremist” without a court decision and penalize searching for or accessing “extremist...
A Russian military court sentenced a prisoner to an additional 6 years of imprisonment and a 49,000 rubles (approximately $600) fine on the charges of public calls to terrorism and the spread of “war fakes,” according to local media. The charges against the prisoner, a man named Andrey Voronin...
A Russian military court sentenced a defected soldier to 23 years of imprisonment and a fine of 590,000 rubles (approximately $7,500), according to local media. Anton Hozhaev faced charges of performance management of a terrorist organization, treason, legalization of funds obtained by criminal...
A member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal team allegedly delivered threats to Karim Khan, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), stating that, unless the ICC withdrew arrest warrants for Israeli officials, Khan and the court would be “destroyed,” a news...
Amid soaring child deaths, surging malnutrition, ceaseless bombardments, and a shattered health system, conditions in Gaza have deteriorated to “unspeakable” levels, top UN officials warned the Security Council on Wednesday.
Gaza has remained under near constant bombardment by Israeli forces...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk delivered a speech on Wednesday urging UN member states to invest more effort in addressing the gender gap in women’s sports and promoting the rights of women athletes.
In his speech, Türk highlighted that despite increasing global attention on...
Human rights organizations in Greece condemned a new law for its alleged violation of international and EU legal protections for asylum-seekers in a joint release on Wednesday, which bans individuals who arrive in the country from North Africa from applying for asylum and mandates the...
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