Human rights
EU expands Russia sanctions over cybercrime, surveillance and rights abuses
VKontakte and several Russian surveillance firms were added to the EU sanctions list over alleged ties to the FSB and the repression of government critics.
Damascus yet to keep pledge to respect rights of detainees, UN inquiry team says
‘He never became a firefighter’: Abolfazl Jahedi, killed in Iran’s protest crackdown - interview
Iranians testify to ‘Post’ how regime murdered loved ones in January massacres
Paris mayor grants city honor to civilians of Gaza, West Bank
For more than 20 years, the City of Paris has awarded honorary citizenship to people who are “threatened, imprisoned, or prosecuted because they defend human rights and fundamental freedoms.”
Iran sentences singer Parastoo Ahmadi, eight others to lashings over performance without hijab
The artists will also face a two-year travel ban and a two-year restriction on all artistic activity after the Iranian judiciary found the nine artists had offended “public decency."
UN warns Israeli settlers could join blacklist for violations against children
The report continues to blacklist Hamas’ armed wing and affiliated factions for killing and maiming children and for abductions, and attributes 2,806 violations to Palestinian armed groups.
Taliban official kills Iranian-Kurdish mother and daughter after failed forced marriage attempt
Sara Yousefi and her mother, Chiman Hosseinzadeh, were said to have been killed by Mofti Mohammadollah, head of the Taliban’s Hajj and Endowments Department in Kohistanat district.
How UN ‘human rights experts’ became a tool of dictatorships - opinion
The corruption of the system did not happen overnight. As dictatorships gained influence inside the UNHRC, they learned they need not abolish the language of human rights to weaken it.
The UN can't afford another appeaser: Why Michelle Bachelet must not lead - opinion
Systematically, Bachelet applied a double standard against the Jewish state, which she condemned more than any other country in the world.
The boycott of Israeli academia - opinion
The Hamas massacre shattered Israeli society in ways that many outsiders struggle to grasp. Since then, another reality has taken shape: the quiet academic boycott of Israelis.
FIFA and Iran’s identity crisis - opinion
Iranians believe that regimes come and go, but the cultural and historical idea of Iran persists beyond any single political order.
Israel bans 40 Euro-Med activists from entry over alleged Hamas ties
The ministry said Euro-Med promotes anti-Israel campaigns across international institutions, media, academia, and platforms such as Wikipedia.
Iran's regime continues irregular death sentencing as it hunts for 'Israeli collaborators'
The new execution orders follow the state killing of Gholamreza Khani Shekarab, who was hanged on Tuesday after being accused of being “one of Mossad’s operational ringleaders abroad."
