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Imprisoned Iranian Nobel laureate hospitalised twice after ‘heavy’ blows, family says

Middle East

Belarus frees opposition figure Kolesnikova, Nobel laureate Bialiatski in US-brokered deal

Europe

Iran 'violently' arrests Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi

Asia / Pacific

Austrian parliament passes headscarf ban for schoolgirls under 14

Europe

Iceland becomes fifth country to boycott Eurovision Song Contest over Israel

Europe
Perspective

'We must break the cycle of impunity for Russian troops': Ukrainian Nobel laureate O. Matviichuk

Europe

Liberty, equality, invincibility: Cultural highlights of France's Ukraine Season

Europe

UN slams Israel's ‘apparent summary execution' of Palestinians in West Bank

Middle East

Tunisian court sentences nearly 40 opposition figures to up to 45 years

Africa

‘Their rights are being violated’: Ukrainian families call for return of their stolen children

On the ground
Europe

MSF revives rescue mission in Mediterranean after new disaster kills 42

Europe

UN rights council orders probe of atrocities in Sudan's Al-Fasher

Africa

Bars, Pride and dating apps: How China is closing down its LGBT+ spaces

Analysis
Asia / Pacific

UN rights council considers fact-finding mission in emergency session on Sudan

Africa

How the 2015 Paris attacks increased police powers and eroded civil liberties

Analysis
France

Tanzanian police arrest senior opposition official, hundreds charged with treason

Africa

After two years of war, Sudan refugees need urgent assistance in Chad

Africa

Lafarge trial: Multinational companies 'enjoying impunity, prioritising profits over human rights'

France
Perspective

Behind the story: French cement firm Lafarge in the dock, accused of funding terrorism

France

Former top lawyer of Israeli army arrested for leaking video of prisoner abuse

Middle East

UN accuses Iran of widespread arrests, abuses after 12-day war with Israel

Asia / Pacific

Sudanese missing in El-Fasher after paramilitary takeover are in ‘grave danger’, aid groups warn

Africa

Warnings of executions and ethnic cleansing mount in Sudan's El-Fasher

Africa

Jailed journalists in Belarus, Georgia win EU’s 2025 Sakharov human rights prize

Europe

US jury finds French bank BNP Paribas liable for damages for enabling Sudan atrocities

Business

Russia has 'captured' the Georgian state, EU 'too complacent', President says

Europe

Robert Badinter and the death penalty: How one lawyer changed French justice

France
Access Asia

Human Rights Watch sounds alarm over China's new draft 'ethnic unity' law

Asia / Pacific
Press Review

Why a Saudi comedy festival drawing big US comedians is no barrel of laughs

Middle East

S. Korean president apologises over foreign adoptions of stolen children

Asia / Pacific

UN calls for Taliban to restore internet as Afghanistan goes dark

Technology

Young woman who rallied for liberties in Iran is now 'looking for freedom' from ICE detention

Long read
Americas

Egypt’s Sisi pardons jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah

Africa

'Demographic conquest': Inside Russia’s campaign to indoctrinate kidnapped Ukrainian children

Analysis
Europe
Talking Europe

Authoritarian regimes in the Council of Europe believe they can do anything: PACE chief Rousopoulos

Europe

'Iran responded to peaceful quest for human rights, dignity with unprecedented violent crackdown'

Middle East

Iranian regime's 'existential threat' not from Israel, but from youth demanding fundamental changes

Middle East

Italy tells Israel to respect rights of activists on Gaza flotilla

Middle East
Eye on Africa

Ghana agrees to accept West Africans deported from the US

Africa

African LGBTs exploited for clout, activist says as Burkina Faso bans homosexuality

UN experts decry 'enforced disappearances' of Gazans at food aid sites

Middle East

Amnesty International says US authorities using AI to surveil pro-Palestinian protesters

Americas
Eye on Africa

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty uncover human-rights abuses in eastern DRC

Amnesty says Israel has 'deliberate policy' of starving Gaza's population

Middle East

Peru enacts amnesty for military personnel and police in Shining Path insurgency

Syria condemns killing of unarmed man in Sweida hospital as video of incident surfaces

Middle East

Why is the US discreetly easing pressure on Myanmar's junta?

Analysis
Asia / Pacific

Nearly 12,000 children under five face acute malnutrition in Gaza, WHO says

Middle East

Netanyahu says Israel wants to ‘control but not govern’ Gaza as security cabinet convenes

Middle East

Dozens of Palestinians killed seeking aid as Israel mulls full occupation of Gaza

Middle East

British couple held in Iran moved to 'worst' prisons, family says

Europe

Saudi Arabia executes 17 people in three days, approaching new record

Middle East

US withdraws from UNESCO again, this time due to its support for ‘woke’ causes

Americas

UN warns spectre of famine turning Gaza into ‘horror show’

As it happened
Middle East

Venezuela accuses El Salvador of torturing migrants deported by US

Americas

Ceasefire calms Syria's Sweida after sectarian clashes kill 1,120, displace 128,000

Middle East

Over 30 killed near Gaza aid centres

Middle East

French mural of Statue of Liberty covering her eyes in shame angers Trump supporters

France

"We are eating sand instead of bread," says 12-year-old Palestinian boy amid starvation

Middle East

Allegations of human rights abuses in Sweida

Nearly 800 Palestinians killed trying to access aid in Gaza since May, UN says

Middle East

US sanctions UN human rights expert investigating Israeli abuses in Gaza

US sanctions UN expert investigating Israeli human rights abuses in Gaza

Americas

Death toll from Kenya’s latest anti-government protest surges to 31

Africa

EU court says France can fine climate activists who stole portraits of Macron

France

Tunisian court sentences prominent lawyer critical of president to two years

Africa

Irish MEP urges EU to 'hold Israel to the same standards as other nations'

Middle East

France mulls preventing small boat crossings to UK

Europe

African Union court rejects comeback bids for Ivory Coast's former president, PM

Africa
A propos

Iran turns to internal crackdown in wake of 12-day war

Middle East

European court condemns France over racial profiling by police

France

Zelensky and Council of Europe rights body sign accord for Ukraine war tribunal

Europe