HRW: Torture continuing in Iraq jails
New York(ANN)-A Human Rights Watch statement today accused Iraqi officials of allowing torture to continue in Mosul detention facilities. “If the Iraqi government ignores credible reports of torture, it’s no wonder that the abuses persist,” said Lama Fakih, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights More...
US rights report calls out ‘environment of impunity’ in Saudi Arabia
Washington(ANN)- US State Department report on human rights for 2018 acknowledged that government agents carried out the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the consulate of More...
Worst of the Worst
Democracy in Retreat, The Report Freedom in the World 2019 Of the 50 Countries Designated as Not Free, the Fallowing 13 Have The Worst Aggregate Scores For Political Rights and Civil Liberties In More...
As repression rises, Saudis pack up and leave
New York(ANN)-Increasingly more Saudi Arabians are leaving their home country and filing for asylum abroad in recent years, as repression rises in the kingdom, especially under Crown More...
UN: Saudi Khashoggi killing trial ‘not sufficient’
‘ New York(ANN)-The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) says it cannot assess the fairness of a trial underway in Saudi Arabia over More...
Somaliland: The Forgotten US-Sponsored ‘Holocaust’
Edwin Haroldson This year marks the 30th anniversary of what is often called the “Hargeisa Holocaust,” when about 90 percent of the city was destroyed and tens of thousands of Isaaqs were More...
37 protesters killed by police in Sudan: Amnesty
New York(ANN)-Amnesty International says it has received “credible reports” that Sudan’s security forces have shot dead nearly 40 protesters in clashes More...
Executions rise sharply under Saudi crown prince
Riyadh(ANN)-Executions in Saudi Arabia rose significantly in the first eight months after Mohammed bin Salman became deputy crown prince, a London-based human rights organization More...
UN for international probe into ‘awful’ Khashoggi murder
New York(ANN)-With more than two months into the killing of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has stressed the necessity of More...
G20: Argentine Probe of Saudi Crown Prince Advances
War Crimes, Torture Allegations Under Scrutiny Buenos Aires Argentine (ANN)-The Argentine judiciary on November 28, 2018, took steps toward a formal investigation of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s More...
