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Prominent Tunisian activist arrested as hundreds protest clampdown on dissent

Lawyers for Chaima Issa, a well-known Tunisian writer and human rights activist, say she was arrested at a protest in Tunis on Saturday as hundreds demonstrated against the curtailing of freedoms.

Radio France Internationale

Dictatorship-era army officers and supporters rally in Argentina in latest sign of political shift

Ex-military officers who served in Argentina’s brutal dictatorship and their families have staged a rare rally to push for the release of fellow officers imprisoned for human rights abuses committed during the junta’s 1976-1983 rule

The Independent UK

Impasse over EHRC single-sex spaces guidance ‘distracting from other issues’

Staff at human rights body said to be ‘desperate for regime change’ over inertia after court’s legal definition of a woman

The Guardian - UK

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UN compares UK’s Palestine Action ban with human rights restrictions in Russia

UN special rapporteur on human rights says the ban is ‘an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction’ on fundamental human rights

The Independent UK

The deadliest wait: five women on death row

Up to 1,000 women globally await execution in prison, with mitigating factors such as child abuse and coercion ignored

The Guardian - UK

Advocacy Group Claims Conflict Metals Still Flow Into Apple Products

International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates) has filed a lawsuit in Washington accusing Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) of using minerals tied to conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda.

Benzinga

Sam Gregory joins the Scott Trust board

The Scott Trust, sole shareholder of Guardian Media Group, is pleased to announce the appointment of internationally recognised technologist, researcher and human rights advocate Sam Gregory to its board.

The Guardian - UK

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‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months

Search powers, usually reserved for protests, will be in effect in the CBD and beyond in a move criticised by human rights groups

The Guardian - AU

‘She’s a shrewd Green’: meet Alice Springs’ new mayor, determined to rewrite the story of her beloved home town

Criminal defence lawyer Asta Hill says she is putting human rights at the centre of her leadership – without shying away from addressing community safety

The Guardian - AU

Human rights fears over Australia’s role in F-35 parts after Trump’s decision to sell fighter jets to Saudi Arabia

Experts warn US deal on ‘lethal’ aircraft presents issues for Australia that ‘we’ve tried desperately to ignore with the Israelis’

The Guardian - AU

UN human rights rapporteur calls on United States to lift sanctions on Cuba

A United Nations human rights official is urging the United States to lift its sanctions on Cuba, saying they are impacting the island’s entire population, hitting sectors including health care, nutrition and education

The Independent UK

Australian journalist speaks out after indictment in Thailand over Malaysia blog posts: ‘I would do it again’

INTERVIEW: Scariest moment wasn’t his arrest but what followed, Murray Hunter tells Maroosha Muzaffar. The 67-year-old felt alone and helpless in his jail cell and remembers thinking: ‘Nobody cares about this, so I am on my own to fight’

The Independent UK

Belarus frees 2 imprisoned Catholic priests after talks with Vatican

Officials say two Roman Catholic priests imprisoned on what human rights officials said were politically related charges were freed from prison following talks with the Vatican

The Independent UK

Government may appeal on whether convicted terrorist had human rights breached

The ruling said the Ministry of Justice had breached Sahayb Abu’s human rights by not allowing him to mix with other prisoners.

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Israel accused of war crimes over expulsion of 32,000 refugees from West Bank camps

A report by Human Rights Watch claims the IDF carried out war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing

The Independent UK

Israel may have committed war crimes in expelling West Bank refugees, human rights group alleges

A human rights group says Israel may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity after forcibly expelling 32,000 Palestinians from three West Bank refugee camps earlier this year

Euronews

Denial of return by Israel to Palestinians in West Bank a war crime, HRW says

A new report by Human Rights Watch finds that Israel committed war crimes in its ground offensive in the West Bank earlier this year, after tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians were denied return after hostilities ended.

Evening Standard

Religious education in NI schools breaches human rights, Supreme Court rules

The legal action was taken by a girl who attended a Belfast primary school and her father.

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Testimony review – a devastating exposé of the Irish church’s brutal Magdalene laundries

A searing documentary on the laundries sees a determined young human rights lawyer join survivors and campaigners in a fight for truth and accountability

The Independent UK

Human rights commission calls on El Salvador to protect 3 deported men it imprisoned

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling on El Salvador to protect the rights of three Salvadoran men deported by the United States

The Guardian - AU

UN to hear human rights complaint over New Zealand’s treatment of Māori

UN committee to consider claim by prominent Māori leader Tureiti Moxon that alleges government policies have harmed Indigenous people

Euronews

France's TotalEnergies accused of complicity in 'civilian massacre’ in Mozambique

ECCHR has filed a complaint in France alleging that soldiers securing TotalEnergies’ LNG project in Mozambique detained dozens of civilians in metal containers where many were tortured, disappeared or executed. Total has requested an inquiry by Mozambican authorities.

Evening Standard

Londoner jailed for ISIS terror plot 'suffered human rights breaches in prison crackdown', judge rules

An Islamic extremist held in segregation in prison was treated unlawfully, a judge has ruled

The Guardian - UK

Tanzania’s descent into repression is a stark warning of how fast Africa’s progress can be eroded

When she became president, Samia Suluhu Hassan offered hope. But the country’s sudden democratic decay is more than just a national tragedy

The Independent UK

Bangladesh remains calm a day after tribunal issues death sentence for ousted prime minister

Bangladesh’s capital and major cities are calm despite a call for a nationwide shutdown by supporters of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

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