Human Rights Watch

While thousands of LGBTQI+ people took to the streets to celebrate Pride in June, Turkish authorities responded by attacking rights activists, lawyers, and journalists. According to LGBTQI+ rights group Kaos GL, they also arrested 530 people.

The court decision allows the case to proceed on the merits to examine the genocide allegations against Myanmar’s military forces.

The Ortega administration has systematically shut down human rights organisations and other nongovernmental groups to halt their efforts to expose abuses and the authorities’ inability to provide services.

The report “Prison or Exile: Cuba’s Systematic Repression of July 2021 Demonstrators,” documents a wide range of human rights violations committed in the context of the protests, including arbitrary detention, abuse-ridden prosecutions, and torture.

The Digital Services Act is a promising step forward in respecting rights online, but, argues HRW, it should have closed loopholes that potentially expand government censorship, and could have taken on more directly the surveillance-based business model of dominant platforms.

In video calls, a fake ‘Mayor Klitschko’ spoke with the mayors of Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw, and other cities, discussed details about Russia’s war in Ukraine – and called for people fleeing the war to be returned to Ukraine. Notorious Russian prank callers have claimed responsibility.

Torture by Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and Gaza may amount to crimes against humanity given its systematic nature over many years.

With Greece facing intense international criticism over unlawful pushbacks of migrants at its borders and wider human rights concerns related to migration and asylum, the Greek government has moved to silence groups and individuals documenting these abuses.