#Human Rights
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🇺🇸 The Case for Striking Iran
[USA]
The Iranian people should not be let down again.
Related: #Military Intervention, #Geopolitics -
🇺🇸 Images the Iranian Regime Doesn’t Want You to See
[USA]
These X-rays show evidence of the Iranian regime’s massacre.
Related: #Military Response, #International Relations -
🇺🇸 OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon to use tech in ‘classified network’
[USA]
Sam Altman claims his technology will not be used by the US for 'domestic mass surveillance' or 'autonomous weapons'.
Related: #AI Ethics, #Military Technology, #Corporate-Military Relations -
🇺🇸 US designates Iran as 'state sponsor of wrongful detention'
[USA]
The U.S. on Friday designated Iran as a "state sponsor of wrongful detention" and demanded that the country release any Americans in its detention. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued the designatio...
Related: #Diplomatic Relations, #International Law -
🇺🇸 More Iranians face executions over protests: UN rights chief
[USA]
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday warned that more Iranians face the risk of being executed after widespread anti-government protests last month. "I am horrified ...
Related: #International Response, #Political Repression -
🇺🇸 ICE spending billions to turn warehouses into migrant detention facilities
[USA]
For months, ICE has been quietly buying industrial warehouses around the country, reportedly with plans to turn them into a network of immigration detention and processing centers to hold tens of thou...
Related: #Immigration Policy, #Detention, #Government Spending, #ICE -
🇺🇸 Student Remains in Honduras After ICE Vows to Deport Her Again
[USA]
Any Lucia López Belloza was deported by mistake. A judge ordered her return by Friday. When the Trump administration sent a plane, she decided not to get on.
Related: #Immigration, #Deportation -
🇺🇸 In Minnesota, U.S. cardinals, pope's ambassador decry mass deportations, call for reconciliation
[USA]
Two American cardinals and the Vatican's ambassador to the U.S. denounced the mass deportations in Minnesota under the federal government's immigration crackdown, but they urged everyone to repair str...
Related: #Immigration, #Religious Advocacy, #Reconciliation, #Political Commentary -
🇺🇸 ‘Index of Repression:’ documents 964 anti-Palestinian cases in the UK
[USA]
The European Legal Support Center says it’s verified nearly a thousand cases of “anti-Palestinian repression” in the UK.
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🇺🇸 Solidarity with Palestinians questioned as Indonesian troops set for Gaza
[USA]
President Prabowo Subianto is trying to expand Indonesia's global standing, but Indonesians question his role in Gaza.
Related: #Geopolitics, #Middle East Conflict, #International Relations -
🇺🇸 Near-blind Rohingya refugee dies after US agents left him far from home
[USA]
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, was a nearly blind Rohingya refugee from Rakhine state in Myanmar, family members said.
Related: #Immigration Policy, #Refugee Crisis, #Government Accountability -
🇬🇧 Two women arrested in Uganda for allegedly kissing in public could face life sentence
[United Kingdom]
<p>Wendy Faith and Alesi Diana Denise were taken into custody under laws that have outraged LGBTQ+ community and rights activists</p><p>Two women have been arrested and detained in Uganda after allege...
Related: #LGBTQ+ Rights, #Legal Discrimination, #International Response -
🇺🇸 Near-blind refugee found dead in Buffalo after release by US Border Patrol
[USA]
Related: #Immigration, #Law Enforcement
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🇺🇸 FIFA and UEFA accused of aiding war crimes
[USA]
FIFA and UEFA presidents are accused of aiding war crimes over the support of Israeli football clubs in OWB.
Related: #Sports Governance, #International Law -
🇺🇸 6 Takeaways From Trump’s State of the Union
[USA]
In an address that was heavy on theatrics, President Trump lashed out at Democrats as “crazy” and unpatriotic.
Related: #Political Theater, #Venezuela Policy -
🇺🇸 Trump welcomes man freed from Maduro captivity at State of the Union
[USA]
President Trump welcomed a man who had been held in captivity by the Maduro regime during his State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, surprising the man's niece who was in the audience.
Related: #Foreign Policy, #Political Messaging -
🇺🇸 ICE Whistle-Blower Says Training Is ‘Broken,’ and OpenAI Faces Questions About Mass Shooter
[USA]
Plus, how Mexico tracked its most-wanted cartel leader.
Related: #Immigration Enforcement, #AI Ethics, #Mexican Drug War -
🇺🇸 Duterte’s Fans Rally in The Hague as the I.C.C. Weighs Evidence Against Him
[USA]
The protests are a sign of the Philippine ex-leader’s ongoing influence, even as he faces a possible trial for the deaths of thousands during his war on drugs.
Related: #International Justice, #Political Influence -
🇬🇧 More than 1,500 Venezuelan political prisoners apply for amnesty
[United Kingdom]
The announcement by the head of Venezuela's National Assembly comes amid US pressure following the capture of ex-President Nicolás Maduro.
Related: #Political Prisoners, #International Relations -
🇺🇸 Venezuela has received more than 1,550 requests under amnesty law
[USA]
Related: #Venezuela Politics, #Legal Amnesty
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🇬🇧 ‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
[United Kingdom]
<p>Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me...
Related: #Immigration Enforcement, #Tourist Safety, #Government Policy -
🇬🇧 Nightly raids and violent beatings: Australia urged to accept citizens trapped in Syria as conditions in Roj camp deteriorate
[United Kingdom]
<p>Aid workers say the camp where 34 women and children are being held are ‘dire’ and present more risk than if they were repatriated</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-n...
Related: #National Security, #Humanitarian Crisis -
🇺🇸 Trump says 32,000 people were killed in Iran's crackdown on protesters
[USA]
President Donald Trump did not offer a source for the new death toll, which is far higher than what has been previously reported.
Related: #Iran Protests, #U.S.-Iran Relations, #Nuclear Diplomacy -
🇺🇸 South Africa's Refugees | Sunday on 60 Minutes
[USA]
President Trump says that White farmers in South Africa are victims of a genocide. The South African government disputes that claim. 60 Minutes traveled to South Africa to see for ourselves. Anderson ...
Related: #International Relations, #Land Reform -
🇺🇸 Ukrainian Women Tell Their Stories of Sexual Violence by Russian Soldiers
[USA]
Ukrainian Women Tell Their Stories of Sexual Violence by Russian Soldiers
Related: #War Crimes, #Gender-Based Violence -
🇺🇸 Venezuela approves amnesty bill, paving way for release of hundreds of political detainees
[USA]
Venezuela's legislature on Thursday approved an amnesty bill that could lead to the release of politicians, activists, lawyers and many others, effectively acknowledging that the government has held h...
Related: #Political Amnesty, #U.S. Influence on Venezuelan Politics, #Opposition Rights, #Judicial Reform -
🇺🇸 Cellebrite cut off Serbia citing abuse of its phone unlocking tools. Why not others?
[USA]
Cellebrite, which makes phone unlocking and hacking tools, stopped sales to countries that allegedly abused its tools. But after new allegations in Jordan and Kenya, the company has changed its approa...
Related: #Technology Ethics, #Corporate Accountability -
🇺🇸 Journalists detained while investigating U.S. deportees in Cameroon
[USA]
Four journalists and a lawyer were arrested Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on Africans recently deported from the United States.
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🇬🇧 Veteran dissident who refused exile released
[United Kingdom]
Mikola Statkevich, who spent more than five years in prison in his native Belarus, is now recovering from a stroke at home, his wife says.
Related: #Political Prisoners, #Belarus Opposition -
🇺🇸 Iran’s Protests Have Ended, but the Anger and Pain Haven’t
[USA]
In the aftermath of another wave of antigovernment unrest, Iran is gripped by a mood of collective grief and uncertainty about the future.
Related: #Political Unrest, #Social Grief