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Kremlin Now Going After Famed Anti-Putin Rockers—in Thailand
‘LET THEM GET READY’Russian diplomats have reportedly intervened to keep members of Bi-2 in a crowded jail cell in Thailand, and human rights activists fear they are headed to imprisonment in Russia.
Harvard Fellowship Flap Spawns Israel Conspiracy Theories
TROPES ON THE CHARLESKen Roth of Human Rights Watch and his left-wing supporters say his criticisms of Israel cost him an Ivy League gig. Here’s everything wrong with that evidence-free accusation.
Russian Troops Executed Teens, Boy on Playground: Report
WAR CRIMESCivilians were being executed at random during Russia’s invasion of the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions in the early weeks of the war, survivors say.
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Dystopian New System to Scan Journalists’ Faces in China
‘CHILLING’A “red” classification translates to a journalist considered to be of “key concern” and alleges they will be “dealt with accordingly,” according to documents.
NYPD Violated Human Rights Law in June Bronx Protest: Report
EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCEPolice responses at a June protest constituted “serious violations of international human rights law,” a Human Rights Watch investigation found.
Human Rights Watch Chief Barred From Entering Hong Kong
BANNEDThe organization had planned to release a report focusing on how China is trying to “deliberately undermine the international human rights system.”
Rights Group: CIA’s Afghan Militias Are ‘Death Squads’
LEGACY OF BRUTALITYParamilitaries trained and funded by the CIA in Afghanistan commit summary executions, village-wide roundups, and other atrocities, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.
Trump’s Blank Check to Tyrants Endangers Rights Advocates
INHUMAN RIGHTSThe abduction and beating of an Amnesty International observer shows that under Putin the people charged with law enforcement have no respect at all for the law.
Sexually Harassed—and Cruelly Arrested—in Egypt
GROPED AND GRABBEDPresident al-Sisi’s security forces may have wanted to send a message to Fathy’s husband to stop investigating the death of an Italian researcher.
Putin Didn’t Murder the Playwrights. He Broke Their Hearts.
THE PLAY’S THE THINGWhen Mikhail Ugarov and Yelina Gremina died only 45 days apart after producing a play about Sergei Magnitsky, conspiracy theories were rife. But the truth is simpler, and sadder.