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Ukraine latest: Volodymyr Zelenskyy invites German Chancellor to Kyiv amid Victory Day warnings

As the holiday commemorating the Soviet Union's World War II victory over Nazi Germany approaches, cities across Ukraine are preparing for an expected increase in Russian attacks.

ABC News

Russian troops 'tortured and executed civilians after they failed to seize Kyiv'

Amnesty International said innocent civilians also suffered from 'reckless shootings and torture' from rampaging Russian troops during attacks throughout February and March

Daily Mirror

Amnesty says evidence shows Russian troops committed war crimes near Kyiv

Amnesty International said on Friday there was compelling evidence that Russian troops had committed war crimes, including extrajudicial executions of civilians, when they occupied an area outside Ukraine's capital in February and March.

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Amnesty Accuses Libya’s SSA of Violations Against Migrants, Refugees

The Stability Support Apparatus (SSA) in Libya has slammed an Amnesty International report that accused the agency of carrying out arbitrary detentions of migrants and refugees as well as of human rights violations. In its statement, SSA pointed out that Amnesty’s report lacked the most basic standards of professional work,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

A selective concern for human rights

NZ has made a concerted effort to support the Ukrainian people. But why Ukraine, and not other situations where the application of the rule of law is equally urgent?

Newsroom.co.nz

What overturning Roe v. Wade could mean for the rest of the world

If the U.S. scraps the constitutional right to abortion, human rights advocates warn that repressive governments across the globe could use it to justify crackdowns on their citizens.

WEKU

Hacked phones put Spanish intelligence agency under scrutiny

Spain's intelligence agency is facing growing criticism after the discovery that politicians had their phones hacked, even as far as the device in the prime minister's pocket

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What the new protest law means as Police Crime and Sentencing Act is approved

After a ping pong battle between the House of Commons and House of Lords, the Police Crime and Sentencing Act is now a law giving police new powers

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Migrants turned away at Belarus-Poland border: 'We see families and people with disabilities'

Several humanitarian organisations have been concerned since March about new cases of violence and migrants being pushed back at the border between Poland and Belarus. Last year, thousands of people from Afghanistan, the Middle East and central Africa tried to reach the European Union by illegally entering Poland. Warsaw accused…

France 24

Boris Johnson’s endorsement of JCB is shameful

Letters: Amnesty International’s report JCB Off Track gives evidence that the company’s equipment has been used in the destruction of Palestinian homes, writes Stuart Penny

The Guardian - UK

Lawyer who took on Chevron finally free

Steven Donziger spent nearly a thousand days in jail or on house arrest. Amnesty says it was corporate retaliation

Salon

Finally free after almost a decade in immigration detention, Amin is too sick to work and struggles to eat even one meal a day

Amin Afravi lost 24 kilograms during his years in detention and it's left his body so depleted that he struggles to eat and, despite finally being released, he's too weak to work.

ABC News

Amnesty Denounces Arbitrary Detention of Protesters in Libya

Amnesty International has condemned the arbitrary detention of nine peaceful protesters and a journalist by an internal security agency in eastern Libya. “The Internal Security Agency (ISA), a collection of powerful armed groups operating in areas under the control of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), is arbitrarily detaining at…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Using citizenship as a weapon’ Myanmar military targets critics

The regime has stripped the citizenship of 33 critics since March in a move that violates international law.

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The Independent UK

Libya's rival officials conclude election talks without deal

The U.N. says rival Libyan officials wrapped up weeklong talks without an agreement on disputed constitutional arrangements for elections

The Independent UK

First activist charged for infringing Poland’s near-total abortion ban to face ‘Kremlin-funded’ group in court

‘What kind of justice system protects a foetus and an abuser over a woman and her life?’ says activist

Al Jazeera

Egypt cuts TikTok influencer sentence to three years

Court reduces TikTok influencer Haneen Hossam’s 10-year ‘human trafficking’ sentence to three years.

The Independent UK

Spyware use on separatists in Spain "extensive," group says

A cybersecurity rights group says the phones of dozens of pro-independence supporters in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia, including the regional chief and other elected officials, were hacked with controversial spyware available only to governments

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'We are on our way to death': In Saudi Arabia, four Uighurs risk extradition to China

Several NGOs have accused Saudi Arabia of having arbitrarily arrested four Uighurs and of trying to extradite them to China, where their fate is extremely uncertain. The detainees include two men who had travelled to the country to make a pilgrimage to Mecca in November 2020, as well as a…

Evening Standard

The Leader podcast: Rwanda migration plans “Human rights calamity”

The UK government’s plans to send refugees to Rwanda have been described as a ‘human rights calamity’ by Amnesty International.

Daily Mirror

Rwanda's human rights record from genocide to torture - as UK plan to send asylum seekers

The UK government is set to unveil its controversial plans to tackle channel crossings by 'offshoring' migrants to Rwanda. Labour called the plans 'unworkable and unethical'

France 24

Floods kill more than 300 people in South Africa as search for missing continues

At least 306 people have been killed in flooding around Durban in South Africa. On a visit to the stricken city, President Cyril Ramaphosa described the devastation as a "catastrophe of enormous proportions". Also, Amnesty International accuses Mali of stalling war crimes and abuse investigations. And after the French city…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Amnesty Accuses Iran of 'Deliberate' Denial of Healthcare to Prisoners

Rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday accused Iran of deliberately denying life-saving medical care to prisoners, saying it had confirmed 96 cases since 2010 of detainees dying after a lack of treatment, AFP reported. The report by Amnesty comes after several high profile cases this year alone of prisoners who…

Daily Mirror

Bodies of 132 civilians are found with bullet wounds in new Ukrainian war crime site

The mayor of Makariv in Kyiv Oblast said the bodies were found with bullet wounds as reports say about 40% of the town has been destroyed

Axios

Russia expels international human rights groups

It’s the latest step Russia has taken to undermine international watchdog organizations amid its invasion of Ukraine.

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