The People’s Republic of China is increasingly pressuring Uyghurs living in Türkiye to spy on the local Uyghur diaspora, according to Safeguard Defenders. Chinese police leverage intelligence gathered from these networks to coerce Uyghurs into spying for them, keeping quiet about China’s human rights abuses or producing...
A potent storm system is moving east after battering the Ohio River Valley Sunday and increasing the risk for severe weather Monday across a large area of the country to the east of the Mississippi River....
“Prisoners have been tortured into confessing, and if physical torture didn’t work, interrogators would threaten their families. Many women have reported being raped whilst in prison,” writes civil rights activist Nasrin Parvaz.
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There has been widespread condemnation of the antisemitism that has followed Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel and the subsequent bombing of Gaza. But the slurs have little to do with Jewish people; instead, they expose Western society as weak, polarised and poisoned by non-stop social media shares and comments, argues Ben Judah
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The UN human rights office OHCHR noted that given the high number of civilian deaths and injuries in Gaza “and the scale of the destruction following Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia refugee camp, there are “serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes.”
Hamad said that Palestinians are the victims of the occupation, therefore no one should blame them for the events of October 7 or anything else, adding: “Everything we do is justified.”
Two in three hospitals in the enclave are “partially functional” as the aid is a “drop in the ocean”, says Dr. Richard Peeperkorn, UN health agency (WHO) representative in the occupied Palestinian territory....
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