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Bahrain: Repression Marks Uprising Anniversary (Human Rights Watch)

Bahraini activists commemorated the tenth anniversary of the 2011 pro-democracy uprisings amid heavy repression, including the arrest and torture of children, Human Rights Watch said today in...

Lebanon: Callous Disregard for Rights (Human Rights Watch)

The corrupt and incompetent Lebanese authorities have deliberately plunged the country into one of the worst economic crises in modern times, demonstrating a callous disregard for...

Iraq: Impunity for Serious Abuses (Human Rights Watch)

The Iraqi government failed in 2021 to deliver on promises to hold to account those responsible for the abuse of protesters, activists, journalists, and critics of political elites and the...

Brazil: Protect Voting, Speech Rights (Human Rights Watch)

Brazil’s democratic institutions should protect voting and speech rights leading to the October 2022 presidential elections from any attempt by President Jair Bolsonaro to subvert the electoral system or undermine the...

RSF refers violence against reporters covering protests in Kazakhstan to UN (Reporters Without Borders)

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has asked the United Nations and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe to examine the alarming escalation in...

India: RSF calls for release of Kashmiri reporter held for a tweet (Reporters Without Borders)

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of a reporter for The Kashmir Walla website who has been detained in a completely...

Nigerian intelligence agency raids news website (Reporters Without Borders)

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by a Nigerian intelligence agency’s harassment of an Abuja-based news website with the aim of identifying its source...

Visualising the race to build the world’s fastest supercomputers (Mohammed Hussein, Al Jazeera)

They are the most powerful machines on Earth, used in everything from investigating the best treatments for the coronavirus to uncovering the origins of...

Tunisia police use water cannon on hundreds of protesters (Al Jazeera)

The Tunisian police have used water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters trying to reach central Tunis to demonstrate against the president in defiance...

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