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Georgia’s Brutal Protest Crackdown Sparks Global Human Rights Concerns

As the government works to suppress unplanned public demonstrations in Georgia, UN experts today criticized a history of repression and…

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s Detention Extended in France

Pavel Durov, aged 39, founder and director general of the popular messaging service Telegram, was taken into custody at the…

Malaysia Keeps Migrants and Refugees in Detention Places

In Malaysia, many migrants and refugees, including lots of children, are being kept in detention centres in very poor conditions.…

• Human rights

Thousands of minors have been arraigned in Turkey on charges of insulting the president.

Sunday, December 20, 2020. For more than six years Turkey has been plagued by deteriorating human rights problems. Major human…

• Human rights

UN chief shows deep concerns over worsening Human Rights Situation in Iran

On Wednesday, the UN chief António Guterres in a report highlighted that the human rights condition in Iran remains a…

• Human rights

Australia stalls raising the age of criminal responsibility

Top law officials in the country vacillate over the law that allows incarceration of children as young as 10 despite…

• Migrant workers

Migrant children detained at hotels are vulnerable to abuse

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been authorising the detention of migrant children in hotels before their expulsion, putting…

• Human rights

Waiting forever to go home

The Coronavirus pandemic has worsened the prospects of those migrants stuck indefinitely in Russia’s detention centres. With international borders closed…