human_rights
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Five European nations — UK, France, Germany, Sweden, and Netherlands — have accused the Kremlin of poisoning Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny with epibatidine, a rare neurotoxin from South Ame...
Recent reports indicate new anti-government slogans appearing in Tehran following significant protests abroad against Iran's regime. The movement reached its zenith in January but was subsequently sup...
A protest by Iranian opposition groups, featuring over 250,000 participants, took place in Munich, Germany, marking the largest gathering of its kind outside Iran....
A statement from five unnamed European nations attributes the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to dart frog toxin and pins blame on Russia. The announcement highlights international conce...
An 18-year-old protester, Saleh Mohammadi, involved in the January protests in Iran faces execution for allegedly killing a policeman during the demonstrations. Norway-based NGO 'Iran Human Rights' cl...
Julian Spencer-Churchill writes that despite widespread protests and significant unrest, Iran's regime retains substantial repressive capabilities. According to some reports, over thirty-five thousand...
The Australian government declined calls for the arrest of visiting Israeli President Isaac Herzog during his visit from December 18-22 to commemorate antisemitic victims and meet with Jewish communit...
Five months after Israel's Supreme Court ruled that its prisons are not providing adequate food for Palestinian detainees and ordered improvements, prisoners remain underfed and malnourished. A 45-yea...
The father of a Hong Kong activist was convicted under the city's national security law for allegedly making false statements on an insurance application. This verdict has garnered international criti...
In Tehran, residents have been chanting slogans against Iran's Islamic regime and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the lead-up to commemorations marking the anniversary of the 1979 revolution. This comes aft...
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson stated that China will assist Cuba 'in the best way possible' amid an energy crisis caused by US sanctions tightening under President Trump’s administration. Th...
President Volodomyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine spoke positively about the people of Iran in discussions with an Iranian opposition figure, Manouchehr Mohammadi-Pahlavi. The talks focused on mutual support f...
The Council of Europe has lifted former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland's immunity following investigations linking him to Jeffrey Epstein. This move is causing significant controversy in N...
US District Judge Tana Lin ordered the release of Greggy Sorio from Tacoma’s Northwest ICE Processing Center after finding his prolonged detention unconstitutional and punitive due to unreasonable tre...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has indicated it will hear the case brought by Estonian Member of Parliament Lea Danilson-Järg, who alleges that her financial information was improperly dis...
Common Dreams publishes articles addressing various perspectives on Palestinian human rights issues, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its humanitarian impacts....