U.S. Consulate is pictured in Istanbul, Turkey

US Consulate employee jailed in Turkey over terrorism charges

A U.S. consulate employee has been jailed for nine years by a Turkish court for association with a terrorist group and aiding it. The United States Embassy to Turkey has expressed its disappointment on the…

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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, warned about Recession Measures

The United Nations warns many countries about repression practices

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, warned on Monday that some countries would take the exceptional measures prescribed to curb the spread of the Corona virus as a pretext for violating…

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Turkey released many prisoners

Turkey: Frees regular criminals on one hand and tightens grip on political prisoners on the other

Salahuddin Demirtaş is one of the thousands of prisoners of opinion, who are excluded from the law to release prisoners, as it appears that the Turkish authorities have other priorities than health. Salahuddin Demirtaş suffers…

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Unprecedented levels of displacement and harsh conditions of civilians in the Syrian Arab Republic

The armed conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic is far from being over, as the types of human rights violations are constantly increasing, according to what the inquiry commission announced in its report. After nearly…

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What Europe is doing for human rights in China

By Victoria Hudson. During the weeks before the spread of the coronavirus, China had ended up in newspapers around the world for a completely different story: the human rights violations of the Uyghurs, an ethnic…

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Stripped of citizenship, Australian mother leaving two children potentially stateless

An Australian mother of five held in the deteriorating al-Hawl camp of northern Syria has been stripped of her citizenship retroactive by three years – leaving two of her children potentially stateless and potentially permanently…

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