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REUTERS/Susan Baaghil Saudi Arabia’s human rights commission is investigating the alleged torture of women’s rights activists including accusations of electrocution and waterboarding, the Wall Street Journal reported. Citing government officials and other people familiar with the activists’ situation, the US publication said Saud al-Qahtani, a close adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), had overseen “some aspects of the torture”, […]
Reuters Protesters have clashed with police in Brussels while demonstrating against a UN migration pact. The United Nations signed the first ever international deal on the migration crisis, despite opposition from the US. The “March against Marrakech” pledged to turn a “political crisis into the awakening of our people.” Police in the Belgium capital were […]
Saudi Arabia’s human rights record has come under intense scrutiny in recent months. Earlier this year, the country detained dozens of prominent women’s rights activists — most without access to communication and many who were never formally charged with a crime. Award-winning campaigner Samar Badawi was arrested in August, which sparked a massive feud between […]
Experts have proposed creating a system to find extremist text and pictures on the web and social networks and mark them with special warning, to avoid unwitting reposts from users. It is hoped the development and introduction of such a system would bring down the seemingly excessive number of convictions for spreading materials inciting hatred […]
Dr. Denis Mukwege, a gynecologist treating victims of sexual violence in Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi human rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by the ISIS, have won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.
Alex Brandon/AP The message, “Kavanaugh is a sexual predator,” was projected onto a US Court of Appeals building in Washington. The women’s rights group reportedly responsible for the message on Tuesday night is called UltraViolet. It previously projected the message, “Roe V Wade is more popular than Brett Kavanaugh” onto the front of the Supreme […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images Democrats are doing their best to resurface the bitter feuds between President Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz, as the Texas lawmaker fends off a strong Democratic challenge this fall. One team of liberal activists is rolling out billboard trucks featuring Trump’s tweets attacking Cruz. And Democrats are sharing video clips of […]
Authorities in Venezuela have said that it has begun releasing groups of opposition activists who had been jailed for alleged misconduct during anti-government protests. The former mayor of San Cristobal, Daniel Ceballos, who was imprisoned in 2014 for inciting violence, was among the freed activists present at a televised meeting arranged by the country’s Constituent […]
AP Photo/Amr Nabil Authorities in Saudi Arabia detained several women’s rights activists who campaigned for women’s driving rights just weeks before the country is set to lift the ban on women driving. At least 10 women’s prominent rights activists have been arrested in the last week. Saudi Arabia is set to lift its driving restriction […]
Iranian activists are finding creative ways to fight government censorship and spread protests throughout the country. Twitter users appear to have posted thousands of pictures of Iranian banknotes covered with handwritten messages and drawings encouraging dissent. Iran has reportedly arrested upwards of 5,000 people during recent protests. Iranian activists are finding creative ways to fight […]
