Sun 07 July 2019: The recent US sanctions on the Iraqi-based South Wealth Resources Company (SWRC) have shined a light on how Iranian-backed militias are continuing to receive arms legally despite sanctions. The SWRC, which was sanctioned for smuggling arms worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Iraqi militias linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards […]
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Thu 04 July 2019: The UN human rights chief says in a new report that Venezuela’s government registered nearly 5,300 killings during security operations last year, saying the deaths stemmed from “resistance to authority. Another 1,569 such killings were recorded in the first four to five months of 2019. The office of Michelle Bachelet decried […]
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Sun 30 June 2019: Ex-prisoner speaks for first time about cruel torture methods she faced during nine-month long incarceration A former inmate of Syrian prisons run by the Bashar al-Assad regime recounted the torture and abuse she faced during her incarceration as her scars keep horrific memories alive. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Nur […]
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Thu 27 June 2019: Death toll revealed in SNHR rights watchdog report, marking International Day in Support of Victims of Torture The Syrian Human Rights Network (SNHR) on Wednesday announced that over 14,000 civilians have died of torture since the beginning of civil war in Syria early 2011. “14,227 individuals [including 177 children, 62 women] […]
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Sun 23 June 2019: Iran’s ruler, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, may be one of the richest people on Earth, if not the richest, and his vast financial empire is designed to bypass the financial pressure of U.S. sanctions. Khamenei leads Setad Ejraiye Farmane Hazrate Emam, or Executive Headquarters of Imam’s Directive; a secretive financial enterprise with […]
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‘The Chinese government gave rare access to its “re-education” camps in a bid to show nothing was untoward. But not everything added up. China has opened up its Xinjiang “re-education” camps to the Western media, allowing journalists to film inside and speak to workers and detainees for the first time. The workers deny the camps are […]
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Thu 13 June 2019: When Palestinian preschooler Aisha a-Lulu came out of brain surgery in a strange Jerusalem hospital room, she called out for her mother and father. She repeated the cry over and over, but her parents never came. Instead of a family member, Israeli authorities had approved a stranger to escort Aisha from […]
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Sat 08 June 2019: The Iranian-Syrian alliance stretches back over three decades, constituting one of the most enduring alliances among authoritarian regimes in the region. When the relationship began in the early 1980s, Damascus had the upper hand and then-Syrian president Hafez al-Assad was keen to maintain a formal distance with the Islamic Republic and […]
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Thu 06 June 2019: More than 40 bodies of people slain by Sudanese security forces were pulled from the Nile River in the capital of Khartoum, organizers of pro-democracy demonstrations said Wednesday, and new clashes brought the death toll in three days of the ruling military’s crackdown to 108. The Sudan Doctors Committee, one of […]
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Fri 31 May 2019: RATODERO, Pakistan – Doctors in a town in Pakistan are struggling to cope with a surge in patients infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, with nearly 700 cases since April, most of them children. Health officials suspect the outbreak is linked to reused syringes and needles and improperly screened […]
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