(2025-02-03). Algeria: Arbitrary Travel Bans Against Critics. hrw.org Click to expand Image | An Air Algerie plane sits on the tarmac of the Houari Boumediene airport in Algiers, Algeria, December 6, 2020. | © 2020 Fateh Guidoum/AP Photo | (Beirut) — Algerian authorities have increasingly used arbitrary travel bans to retaliate against perceived critics, Human Rights Watch and MENA Rights Group said today. The authorities should lift the arbitrary bans and stop using them as a tool to repress dissent.Algerian authorities have used travel bans to arbitrarily target civil society activists, opposition party leaders, journalists, union supporters, and others deemed criti…
(2025-02-03). Call for action to stop atrocious crimes and grave human rights violations in Sudan. fidh.org
(2025-02-03). Taiwan Executes First Prisoner in Five Years. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Members of the Taiwan Constitutional Court hold a press conference after the ruling on the constitutionality of the death penalty in a case brought by people currently on death row, in Taipei, Taiwan, September 20, 2024. | © 2024 Ann Wang/Reuters…
(2025-02-03). Kazakhstan: Founder of Satirical Instagram Account Arrested. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Temirlan Ensebek talks to reporters outside a police station in Almaty, Kazakhstan on May 15, 2021. | © 2021 RFE/RL | (Berlin, February 3, 2025) — Authorities in Kazakhstan should immediately drop criminal charges brought against a blogger who operates a satirical Instagram account and release him from pretrial detention, Human Rights Watch said today.The blogger, Temirlan Ensebek, 29, manages the satirical Instagram account Qaznews24. Police arrested him on January 17, 2025, and searched his home. On January 18, an Almaty court approved his pretrial detention for two months…
(2025-02-03). Petro insists Colombia won't accept chained deportees from US. colombiareports.com Colombia's President Gustavo Petro insisted on Saturday that his government will refuse US deportation flights that violate the human rights of Colombian migrants. In an interview with US television network…
(2025-02-03). Ethiopia: Defend and strengthen the human rights movement against erosion! fidh.org Human rights organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Agasint Torture (OMCT), under the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, express deep concern over the escalating political tensions and ongoing conflicts in Ethiopia.
23 January 2025. The undersigned African civil society organisations (CSOs) and various international non-governmental organisations urgently express our deep concern (…) | – |
(2025-02-03). Singapore: End harassment and intimidation of Transformative Justice Collective. fidh.org 11 organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, condemn in the strongest terms the latest restrictions imposed by the Singapore government on activists from the Transformative Justice Collective (TJC), a civil society group actively opposing the death penalty and advocating for human rights in the country. Read the statement (…) | – |
(2025-02-03). Urgent call to confirm the suspension of Azerbaijan's PACE credentials at winter session 2025. fidh.org In a joint letter, human rights organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, call the members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to uphold the suspension of Azerbaijan's credentials for 2025, as escalating repression of civil society in the country violates the principles of the Council of Europe (…) | – |
(2025-02-03). Freed Palestinians bear signs of torture, starvation by Israel. newarab.com 
Dozens of As part of the agreement between Hamas and Israel, 183 Palestinians were freed from Israeli jails on Saturday. | Dressed in stained grey prison uniforms, many appeared frail and exhausted as they arriv…
(2025-02-03). 2 Cambodian journalists detained over cyberscam torture video. ucanews.com
(2025-02-03). A propósito de la Ley del Sistema de Atención a las quejas y peticiones de las personas. (I). cubadebate.cu El sistema de atención a las quejas y peticiones constituye la garantía institucional de los derechos. Esta estructura se compone por los entes llamados a la atención, tratamiento, respuesta y control de las quejas y peticiones. La integración del sistema tiene por vértice a los órganos superiores del entramado estatal quienes irradian a sus estructuras subordinadas.
(2025-02-03). Israel defence chief threatens freed Palestinian detainee. newarab.com 
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz took to social media on Thursday to threaten a former Palestinian detainee with reincarceration after the man was released as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal. | Katz's post on X targeted "One mistake and you're going to meet old friends," Katz
(2025-02-03). Israel kills former Palestinian detainee in West Bank. newarab.com 
A former The Gaza Health Ministry revealed two Palestinians were killed south of Jenin, including Abdul Hadi Issam Alawneh. | Alawneh was released under the November 2023
(2025-02-03). Biden Gave Trump The Blueprint To Lock Up 30,000 Migrants. popularresistance.org On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to "expand" a migrant detention center located within the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base. Prior to the release of the executive order, the administration announced that 30,000 migrants would be detained at Guantánamo. | "We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. This will double our capacity immediately," Trump said. | But according to Department of Homeland Security and Navy documents from 2021 and 2022 reviewed by Drop Site News, the Trump administration may not be able to detain that h…
(2025-02-03). Iran detains political activist who criticised the ruling system. newarab.com 
(2025-02-03). Gaie Delap is home — but her story exposes the chaos in the so-called 'justice system'. thecanary.co Gaie Delap's family and friends have released a statement following her release under Home Detention Curfew on Friday 31 January. Gaie Delap, a grandmother, Quaker, and 'earth defender' who was sentenced to 20 months in prison for joining a Just Stop Oil action on the M25 in November 2022, was recalled to prison before Christmas …
(2025-02-03). Panama: Self-Determination And National Popular Unity. popularresistance.org The peoples have the right to decide their own collective destiny as established by the Bandung Conference in 1955 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966, which was not gratuitous but a product of the struggle of the peripheral countries for their decolonization. Amid this reality, the United States never gave up extending the Monroe Doctrine to the present day. Making the situation worse, imperial irredentism becomes explicit with President Donald Trump. The Panamanian people's distrust of the political elite at this juncture is being reproduced in the collective imagination in a ma…
(2025-02-03). Activists in Mexico rally against incoming Trump's anti-immigration policies. presstv.ir Migrant rights groups in Mexico demonstrated against the proposed anti-immigration measures of US President-elect Donald Trump.
(2025-02-03). Tribute to Tapan Bose (8 Jun 1946 — 30 Jan 2025): Documentary Filmmaker, Rights & Peace Activist, Writer and Public Intellectual. transcend.org Despite his fame, impactful and life-long activism, and standing among activists, members of the South Asian intelligentsia and state functionaries, Tapan was such a grounded and down-to-earth person. He mentored younger generations of activists and rights defenders across South Asia.
(2025-02-03). Israeli Finance Minster Smotrich backs Saudi normalization, unless it includes Palestinian state. haaretz.com Smotrich said during a party meeting that he would support Israel normalizing ties with Saudi Arabia on the condition that it is based 'on truth, not lies suggesting that Arabs have national rights in the Land of Israel'…
(2025-02-03). Greece: Continued judicial harassment against migrants' rights defender Panayote Dimitras. fidh.org
(2025-02-03). Cambodia: Denial of entry and harassment of British journalist Gerald Flynn. fidh.org
(2025-02-03). China to file lawsuit against latest tariffs. ecns.cn China will file a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization and take necessary countermeasures to safeguard its rights and interests, the Ministry of Commerce said on Sunday after the United States announced it would impose 10 percent additional tariffs on goods from China.
(2025-02-03). Trump's proposal to "clear out" Gaza a crime against humanity. cpusa.org 
The Communist Party USA unequivocally condemns the illegal, inhumane, and monstrous proposal by President Trump to "clear out" the population of the Gaza Strip. | Trump's suggestion that the Palestinian population should be removed from Gaza and "absorbed" by Egypt and Jordan is a blatant call for population transfer. The United States, Israel, Jordan, and Egypt are all signatories to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), both of which categorically declare forced population transfers illegal. Additionally, the U.S., Jordan, and Egypt are signatories…
(2025-02-03). Why Hasn't the UNSC Sanctioned Rwanda or Referred Its President to the ICC? transcend.org 29 Jan 2025 – The UN Security Council has never sanctioned Rwanda or referred its president to the International Criminal Court, despite decades of UN documentation of their international crimes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
(2025-02-03). Experts: DeepSeek sets benchmark for Chinese firms. ecns.cn An increasing number of Chinese firms are poised to follow DeepSeek in pushing forward innovation and cooperation and making global breakthroughs despite rounds of sanctions from the United States, industry experts said on Sunday.
(2025-02-03). #IR46: How Iran became global leader in drones, missiles and air defense systems. presstv.ir Iran is recognized today as a global leader in drone, missile, and air defense technology, achieving the feat despite sanctions since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
(2025-02-03). Canada Props Up Gang-Supported Plunder of Haiti Under Pretext of "Kenyan-Led" Intervention. libya360.wordpress.com Marthad Shingiro Umucyaba A screenshot from The Canada Files' interview with Booker Ngesa Omole, the Communist Party of Kenya (Marxist)'s General Secretary. A Canadian military mission is focused on enabling NATO and its' Kenyan proxy to select gang members in Haiti to guard resource extraction sites, and sanction gang members so when they get into…
(2025-02-02). American human rights lawyer and professor of international law Dr. Francis Boyle has died. expose-news.com Dr. Francis A. Boyle, an American human rights lawyer and professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law, died on 30 January 2025 at the age of 74. …
(2025-02-02). Thurs. Feb 6: U.S. Role in Regime Change — Libya, Iraq, Syria at 7pm ET — Webinar & In person. iacenter.org Date: Thursday, Feb 6 Time: 7 PM In Person: The New School, NYC, RSVP: bit.ly/tnspanel On Zoom: bit.ly/tnszoom What is regime change, and how has the US used it to target nations like Libya, Iraq, and Syria that resist Western dominance? This event will explore how sanctions, propaganda, and military intervention are wielded as tools of imperialism, plunging nations into chaos under the guise of "human rights" rhetoric. Join us to analyze the devastating consequences of US-led interventions and corporate media propaganda. Spread the word: www.instagram.com/p/DFbE4W7Sczl Questions? Email us at thenewschool…
(2025-02-02). Ethiopia: Defend and strengthen the human rights movement against erosion! fidh.org Human rights organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Agasint Torture (OMCT), under the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, express deep concern over the escalating political tensions and ongoing conflicts in Ethiopia.
23 January 2025. The undersigned African civil society organisations (CSOs) and various international non-governmental organisations urgently express our deep concern (…) | – |
(2025-02-02). Singapore: End harassment and intimidation of Transformative Justice Collective. fidh.org 11 organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, condemn in the strongest terms the latest restrictions imposed by the Singapore government on activists from the Transformative Justice Collective (TJC), a civil society group actively opposing the death penalty and advocating for human rights in the country. Read the statement (…) | – |
(2025-02-02). Urgent call to confirm the suspension of Azerbaijan's PACE credentials at winter session 2025. fidh.org In a joint letter, human rights organisations, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, call the members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to uphold the suspension of Azerbaijan's credentials for 2025, as escalating repression of civil society in the country violates the principles of the Council of Europe (…) | – |
(2025-02-02). Freed Palestinians bear signs of torture, starvation by Israel. newarab.com Dozens of As part of the agreement between Hamas and Israel, 183 Palestinians were freed from Israeli jails on Saturday. | Dressed in stained grey prison uniforms, many appeared frail and exhausted as they arriv…
(2025-02-02). Release of 293 Palestinian prisoners: israeli torture & military repression. indybay.org Full title: The release of 293 Palestinian prisoners, including those serving life sentences, long-term sentences, and children, from Israeli occupation prisons as part of the third and fourth batches of the first phase of the prisoner exchange deal…
(2025-02-02). Palestinian detainees released as 50 patients cross into Egypt. newarab.com 
Hamas freed three Three buses carrying The prisoners, dress…
(2025-02-02). Israel defence chief threatens freed Palestinian detainee. newarab.com Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz took to social media on Thursday to threaten a former Palestinian detainee with reincarceration after the man was released as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal. | Katz's post on X targeted "One mistake and you're going to meet old friends," Katz
(2025-02-02). 'It's time for a free Palestine': Released detainee Al-Zubaidi. newarab.com 
Freed Palestinian detainee Zakaria Al-Zubaidi said it was time for Israel's occupation of the West Bank to end so Palestinians could have a state of their own, while declining to comment on his time in Israeli detention. | Al-Zubaidi, a commander of Fatah's The renowned resistance figh…
(2025-02-02). Despite Declining Border Crossings, ICE Keeps Moving Migrants Out of San Diego. truthout.org Immigration Judge Ana Partida sat before a mostly empty courtroom on an afternoon in October, her body angled toward a television on one of the side walls. None of the people scheduled to appear before Partida, who hears cases inside San Diego's Otay Mesa Detention Center, were present in person. That's because Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had transferred all of them to other… |
(2025-02-02). Sweden releases suspects over killing of anti-Islam campaigner. newarab.com 
A Swedish prosecutor said on Friday he had decided to release from detention five suspects who were held over the killing on Wednesday of an
(2025-02-02). Greece: Continued judicial harassment against migrants' rights defender Panayote Dimitras. fidh.org
(2025-02-02). Activists in Mexico rally against incoming Trump's anti-immigration policies. presstv.ir Migrant rights groups in Mexico demonstrated against the proposed anti-immigration measures of US President-elect Donald Trump.
(2025-02-02). Hundreds Of Students Walk Out To Protest ICE Operations. popularresistance.org San Jose, CA — Several hundred people protested in East San Jose on Monday, January 28, against recent arrests made by ICE in the predominantly Chicano neighborhood. The protest began when hundreds of students organized a walkout from Overfelt High School and marched to the King and Story Road intersection. King and Story is an historic location in the Chicano and immigrant rights movement, and was the starting place for past mega-marches. | Protesters waved Mexican flags and held signs with slogans such as, "Legalization for all," "No somos criminales" and "Immigrant rights are civil rights."
(2025-02-02). Multinational alliance pushing for legal, diplomatic and economic sanctions against Israel. haaretz.com Government ministers from nine African and South American countries announced the group's launch on Friday, saying, 'When future generations inquire about our contribution to Palestine's right to self-determination, our response must be, we took concrete measures'…
(2025-02-02). The ENMOD Treaty and the Sanctioned Assault on Agriculture and Human and Environmental Health. globalresearch.ca Abstract: | The 1978 "Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques" [ENMOD] obliges signatory nations to fundamentally compromise their sovereignty and cause widespread and permanent agricultural devastation. Instead of prohibiting "hostile use of …