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Iranian regime weaponizes judicial systems against Baha'i minority, Human Rights Watch claims

The Baha'i International Community reported that the occurance persecutory acts against Baha’i between July and November 2025 was three times higher than the same time period in 2024.

Members of the Baha'i faith hold flowers as they demonstrate outside a state security court during a hearing in the case of a fellow Baha'i man charged with seeking to establish a base for the community in Yemen, in the country's capital Sanaa April 3, 2016
Buildings and streets of Jenin refugee camp, November 19, 2025.

Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes in West Bank expulsions

A child sits holding a sponge at a car wash, amid ongoing fuel shortages caused by a blockade imposed by al Qaeda-linked insurgents in early September, in Bamako, Mali, October 31, 2025.

Mali army killed 31 villagers in attacks on insurgent area, HRW says

AN IDF APC enters Syria at the ceasefire line (illustrative).

HRW accuses Israel of war crimes in Syria over forced displacement


Crimes against humanity: HRW report details Palestinian atrocities on Oct. 7

An NGO watchdog organization called out Human Rights Watch for using October 7 and the hostages as political manipulation tactics.

 Palestinian militants of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades move towards the Erez crossing between Israel and the northern Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.

Human rights groups push for UK to ban weapon sales to Israel

The legal groups claim that Israel is not complying with international law amid the war against Hamas.

A gavel and a block is pictured on the judge's bench in this illustration picture taken in the Sussex County Court of Chancery in Georgetown, Delaware, U.S., June 9, 2021.

British-Palestinian doctor denied entry to Schengen Area, rights group call for investigation

The man, a British-Palestinian national and surgeon, was invited to speak at several events highlighting the war in Gaza, including an event at The Hague.

 Airport signage showing passengers the route to the Schengen transfer area can be seen installed at Henri Coanda International Airport in Otopeni near Bucharest, Romania, March 31, 2024.

HRW: US weaponry allowed Israel to kill aid workers in Lebanon

HRW described the attack as unlawful, claiming it was on civilians and that Israel failed to take all necessary precautions.

 Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, May 5, 2024.

HRW report exposes Iran's ‘Boot on my neck’ policy against Bahai's

“More than 40 years of systematic persecution of Iran’s Baha’is is a crime against humanity and should be judged as such,” a Baha’i community representative tells The Media Line.

 Baháʼí Institute for Higher Education students secretly pursue education in a living room on April 21, 2009. Iran bans formal higher education for members of the Bahá'í faith.

EU deal with Egypt to stem migration is morally ambiguous - opinion

"The EU’s cash-for-migration-control approach strengthens authoritarian rulers while betraying human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, and activists whose work involves great personal risk.”

 EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo last week.

Human Rights Watch is an Israel-hating organization at its very core - opinion

HRW has targeted Israel with repeated and false accusations of “deliberately killing civilians,” committing war crimes, collective punishment, and disproportionate responses.

Jose Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch Americas, holds up a report while addressing the media in Bogota

Human Rights Watch says Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, Lebanon

The substance is not banned as a chemical weapon, but it is prohibited by the Convention on the Prohibition of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons, to which Israel is not a signatory.

Smoke billows following Israeli strikes amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Gaza, October 13, 2023.

Uganda arrests 40 opposition supporters as their leader arrives

 Ugandan opposition leader and singer Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, known as Bobi Wine arrives to address Ugandans living in South Africa on political issues in their home country, at the sports ground in Germiston, southeast of Johannesburg, South Africa, October 3, 2023.

Jordan ends emergency laws that stifled public freedoms

This would mean a return to implementing many ordinary laws that were suspended as the government enacted many defense orders that touched every aspect of public life.

 Jordan's King Abdullah and Queen Rania arrive to meet with the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, US February 1, 2023.