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Anwar Bunni picked up the phone just after two rings. It was December 8, the day Syrian rebels ousted President Bashar Assad and took control of Damascus. Bunni, head of the non-profit Syrian Centre for Legal Studies and Research, has spent more than a decade collecting testimonies on crimes committed against Syrians and building cases […]
Amnesty International has revealed that phones belonging to Serbian activists and journalists have been hacked by Serbian intelligence and police using Israeli spyware and other mobile device forensics tools. The software is being used “to unlawfully target journalists, environmental activists and other individuals in a covert surveillance campaign”, Amnesty said on Monday. Many individuals who […]
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner vowed to fight to keep Philadelphia a sanctuary city. “The law will be followed here, and that law does not permit hate crime. It does not commit violence against undocumented people,” he said. That means parents will not be pulled away from their children, Krasner said, and he will charge […]
Over the next few months, he says he will be partnering with several organizations to provide training and plans to participate in panel discussions about the state of being transgender in America — and Ohio specifically. He plans to meet people “where they are” — in libraries, in town halls or over email — to […]
BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian army withdrew from much of southern Syria on Saturday, leaving more areas of the country, including two provincial capitals, under the control of opposition fighters, the military and an opposition war monitor said. The redeployment away from the provinces of Daraa and Sweida came as Syria’s military sent large numbers […]
Earlier this year, Ghana’s parliament passed a bill that criminalizes identifying as LGBTQ+. The law is similar to those already in place in Uganda and Russia, and came after an orchestrated push by American evangelical groups for Ghana to go beyond existing laws barring anal sex, which were rarely enforced. The country’s top court is […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links NP Comment Recent penalties against Emo, Ont. and its mayor for not flying the Pride flag have undermined public confidence — and understandably so Published Nov 30, 2024 • Last updated 45 minutes ago • 4 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have […]
Laila Soueif, the British-born mother of the Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd El Fattah, is demanding the U.K. do more to secure his release. Source link
Four former Hong Kong lawmakers found guilty in a landmark national security trial, including Claudia Mo Man-ching, will be released in about six months’ time as they have already spent nearly four years in custody. Three judges ended the city’s largest and longest-running trial under the Beijing-decreed national security law on Tuesday by jailing 45 […]
45 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are sentenced to jail in city’s biggest national security trial
HONG KONG — A Hong Kong court sentenced dozens of leading pro-democracy figures to up to 10 years in prison Tuesday in the single largest trial under a national security law that critics say has been used to all but eliminate political dissent in the Chinese territory. Benny Tai, 60, a former law professor at […]