#human-rights

#human-rights

Desperate families flocked to former detention centres, prisons, morgues, and mass grave sites to try to find their missing relatives after al-Assad's removal, and investigators gained unprecedented access to government documents, witness accounts and human remains. A limited number of detainees were released alive, while the fate of tens of thousands remained unknown, rendering them forcibly disappeared. This revealed a major tragedy that affected Syrian society as a whole.

President Nayib Bukele introduced a state of emergency in El Salvador, using it to dismantle the violent gangs that had terrorised the Central American country for decades. Thousands of alleged gang members have been rounded up and locked away, many of them in CECOT, a huge, purpose-built high-security prison. The streets are now safe, but at what cost? Government forces are accused of arbitrarily detaining innocent people without trial or even charge, and in some cases, of violence and torture.

Henry Oryem Okello, Uganda's state minister for foreign affairs, told Reuters the country does not have the capability to take in immigrants. It comes as the US has deported migrants convicted of crimes in the US to non-native countries including South Sudan and Eswatini. To the best of my knowledge we have not reached such an agreement. We do not have the facilities and infrastructure to accommodate such illegal immigrants in Uganda. So, we cannot take in such illegal immigrants, Oryem said.

You will not win. He who messes with the people of Israel, he who will murder our children, he who will murder our women, we will wipe him out.

Members of Honduras's DIPAMPCO police unit frisk people in Tegucigalpa on November 26, 2022, amid an ongoing state of emergency over gang violence.

As Israel targets al-Shifa and Al-Aqsa hospitals in Gaza, residents face relentless bombardment, barring emergency access to the wounded and forcing displacement.

The suit, filed with the Berlin public prosecutor's office, accuses both ministers of failing to protect the rights of Afghan refugees deported by Pakistani authorities.

Lai, 77, has been detained since 2020, largely in solitary confinement, on convictions related to the 2019 pro-democracy protests, and on remand for the national security trial.

"I believe that the external pressure led to the changes in the deal because in Germany, I think that the clubs are pretty exposed to criticism from the fan base. Fan bases in Germany are quite traditional and not open to commercial deals."

Israeli airstrikes on Tehran's Evin prison on June 23 killed at least 80 detainees, visitors, and staff amid allegations of targeting non-military facilities during visiting hours.

The amnesty law, signed by President Dina Boluarte, shields military and police from prosecution for human rights abuses during Peru's internal conflict, facing global condemnation.

On November 9, 2023, a group of U.S.-based journalists published an open letter in support of colleagues in Gaza, urging the importance of precise reporting during the ongoing genocide.