Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Faces New Charges: Rights Defenders in Iran Under Threat

Nasrin Sotoudeh, the prominent Iranian human rights lawyer, faces new charges after being held in an Iranian jail for the last 2 months. Detained under national security charges since June 2018 when Nasrin was arrested and taken from her home in Tehran to Evin prison. At that time, she was issued a five-year sentence on ‘in absentia’ charges from 2016, that she knew nothing about. Her human rights campaigning work … Read more →

UN: Over a million Uyghur people held in Chinese detention centres

A UN human rights panel reported on 10 August that more than one million Uyghur people are being held in mass detention centres in China. The detentions are being described as a method to combat religious extremism but seem to actually be a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.” Gay McDougall, a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination estimates that Uyghurs, and other … Read more →

Will Geneva talks solve Yemen's crisis

The United Nations special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, has called for peace talks in Geneva. Speaking at the Security Council last week, he announced that talks will take place on the 6 September in Geneva. Mr Griffiths is aiming to create a framework for peace talks and confidence-building measures amongst all parties. This is the first time in 2 years that peace talks are to be held between Saudi-backed … Read more →

US sanctions on Iran cause economic meltdown

Protests have been sparked across Iran over the last few days following the upcoming imposition of US sanctions. The immense impact they will have on the already drowning Iranian economy has caused thousands of Iranians to take to the streets in the last few days. The US is re-imposing sanctions on Iran, a second shocking move that follows Trump’s decision to withdraw from the US-Iran ‘Nuclear Deal’, officially known as … Read more →

Danish ‘Burqa’ Law Sparks Protests

Danish ‘Burqa’ law Denmark has pushed forward and finalised a new law that will forbid women from wearing niqab or burqas. The law bans people from wearing any garment that covers the face. The bill was voted in by a 75 to 30 majority, with a large section of Danish MP’s abstaining, 74 in total, from the vote. Discussions about the law The law was passed last month but comes … Read more →

Ahed Tamimi Released from Israel's Prison

Hundreds of Children Remain Behind Bars Ahed’s example Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian teenager whose case reached the world stage earlier this year, has now been released after eight months of imprisonment in an Israeli detention centre. Ahed was detained for slapping an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank, near her home in Nabi Saleh. The viral video of this scene turned her into an international symbol of Palestinian resistance, … Read more →