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Groups Ask UN to Investigate Beirut’s Massive 2020 Blast

Lebanese and international organizations Wednesday called on the UN Human Rights Council to send a fact-finding mission to investigate the Beirut port blast two years ago, as a domestic probe continues to stall. The call by groups including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International came as the Lebanese investigation has…

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Groups ask UN to investigate Beirut's massive 2020 blast

A group of Lebanese and international organizations have called on members of the U.N. Human Rights Council to send a fact-finding mission to investigate the Beirut port blast two years ago

The Independent UK

Allegations of torture by Myanmar's military regime revealed in new Amnesty International report

A new report on torture carried out by Myanmar's military regime describes people being hit and kicked, tasered or touched with electrical wires, and subjected to gender-based violence.

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Yes, Republicans really did try to make abortion punishable by death

A bill introduced in the North Carolina legislature last year was largely performative but was part of the right’s strategy to make the unthinkable mainstream

The Guardian - US

‘Sickening’ video appears to show Russian soldier castrating Ukrainian prisoner of war

Footage emerged as Russia accused of killing dozens of prisoners of war at barracks in Donetsk

The Independent UK

Factbox-National political dialogue in Egypt follows years of crackdowns

Egypt plans to launch a national political dialogue in the coming weeks, a test of whether authorities are prepared to ease a crackdown on dissent that critics say is the most severe in the country's recent history.

Reuters

What it's like being a woman in Afghanistan today: 'death in slow motion'

That's the title of a newly released report from Amnesty International, covering a range of issues affecting girls and women under Taliban rule. Foremost among them are child and forced marriage.

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Morad Tahbaz who was released from Iranian prison at same time as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe before being returned is back out on furlough

He was out for just two days previously

Wales Online

Iran releases British-Iranian prisoner Morad Tahbaz on furlough

His daughter Roxanne Tahbaz said the Foreign Secretary’s work is ‘unfinished’ as she called for her father’s ‘unconditional release’.

The Independent UK

Egyptian court calls for live TV hanging of killer who stabbed woman for rejecting him

Ministers told broadcast execution would serve as deterrent

The Independent UK

Amnesty: Taliban crackdown on rights is 'suffocating' women

Amnesty International says the Taliban's “suffocating” crackdown on the rights of Afghan women and girls is destroying their lives

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on the death penalty: a long way to go

Editorial: Though capital punishment is in global decline, there are horrifying exceptions to the general trend

The Guardian - UK

What is happening in Myanmar? Conflict explained as 4 pro-democracy campaigners executed

Myanmar has been fraught with conflict for years, from a military coup and the deposition of a leader to mass protests which have left hundreds injured and silenced

Daily Mirror

International condemnation after Myanmar executes activists

The executions under the military-led government are the first in decades and raise fears of more to come.

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Amnesty: UK-Israel Trade Should Not Incentivize Israeli Apartheid against Palestinians

Amnesty International United Kingdom warned that the new trade deal between Britain and Israel could allow the latter to consolidate its settler-colonialism and apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territories. It stressed in a statement on Thursday that the new UK trade deal with Israel “must not be a betrayal of…

The Independent UK

A new Libyan force emerges, accused of abusing migrants

A powerful body headed by a militia leader accused of war crimes has been implicated in severe abuses against migrants in conflict-scarred Libya

Al Jazeera

Singapore carries out fifth execution since March

Nazeri bin Lajim was hanged early on Friday morning for drug offences, the latest in a ‘relentless wave’ of executions.

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Amnesty Urges Probe into 'Horrific' Ethnic Massacre in Ethiopia

Amnesty International on Thursday called for an investigation into a massacre of more than 400 Amhara civilians in Ethiopia's Oromia region last month, citing eyewitnesses who blamed a local rebel group for the killings.

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Australian embassy spends $750,000 at luxury hotel linked to Myanmar's military junta

Official documents reveal an Australian embassy spent $750,000 at a luxury hotel built on land owned and leased by Myanmar's military junta, with activists saying taxpayer dollars should not have been used.

Al Jazeera

Myanmar accused of war crimes over ‘depraved use’ of landmines

Amnesty says military has been laying mines on a ‘massive scale’ in eastern Kayah state.

The Independent UK

Amnesty Intl says Myanmar army has laid landmines in Kayah

Amnesty International says Myanmar’s military has laid landmines that have killed and injured people in and around villages in Kayah, a conflict-affected region near the border with Thailand

ABC News

Asylum seeker Mostafa Azimitabar sues federal government for detaining him in Melbourne hotels

An Iranian asylum seeker locked up in two Melbourne hotels for more than a year has described the experience as "torture" and is challenging the federal government's decision to detain him.

The Guardian - UK

A year on from the Pegasus project, governments still have access to surveillance technology

Unlawful spying using NSO Group’s software continues a year after our investigation, says Danna Ingleton, deputy director of Amnesty Tech

Al Jazeera

Senegal protests poke holes in its longstanding image of stability

Senegal is often lauded abroad as a beacon of stability in West Africa, but its reputation is at risk of slipping.

Daily Mirror

Inside world's worst prison where inmates kill each other and then eat the dead

Rwanda is home to Gitarama prison, which has long drawn the concern of human rights groups like Amnesty International. Gitarama's overcrowding has led to awful conditions

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