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Last week, 52 prisoners were released, including opposition leader Mikola Statkevich, now said to be back behind bars. Published On 16 Sep 202516 Sep 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Belarus has pardoned 25 prisoners as part of an ongoing drive to improve relations with the United States. President Alexander Lukashenko’s…
Syria is marking its first International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances since the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad, as the country grapples with lingering questions over the fate of the many thousands who disappeared during the country’s civil war. In a report released on Saturday to coincide with the annual commemoration, the…
In another victory for the right wing, a criminal case against ex-interim leader Anez has been annulled. Published On 30 Aug 202530 Aug 2025 Right-wing Bolivian opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho has been released from jail after spending nearly three years in pretrial detention for his role in unrest that led to the 2019 ouster…
Ratko Mladic filed the request to be released on health grounds last month, saying he only had a few months to live. A United Nations war crimes court has denied a request from Ratko Mladic, an infamous Bosnian Serb military leader during the 1992 to 1995 Yugoslav wars, who oversaw the Srebrenica massacre, to be…
The murder of Wadee Alfayoumi and attack on his mother stand as one of the worst hate crimes in the US since Gaza war began. A United States landlord who was jailed for decades for the horrific October 2023 stabbing death of a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy, and for critically injuring his mother, has died in…
A Venezuelan man deported from the United States has issued a complaint against the administration of President Donald Trump, saying he was wrongfully sent to a Salvadoran prison where he suffered beatings and other forms of abuse. Thursday’s complaint is the first of its kind from one of the more than 250 Venezuelan men sent…
The men provided financial assistance to al-Shabab fighters who attacked the DusitD2 complex in Nairobi, killing 21 people. A Kenyan court has sentenced two men to 30 years in prison for aiding al-Shabab fighters who were behind a deadly attack in Nairobi that left 21 people dead in 2019. On Thursday, Judge Diana Kavedza Mochache…
Former Prime Minister Ali Larayedh and the opposition Ennahdha party have denounced the trial as politically motivated. A Tunisian court has sentenced former Prime Minister Ali Larayedh to 34 years in prison over accusations he facilitated the departure of fighters to Syria – a charge the opposition figure strongly denies. “I was neither sympathetic, nor…
Cuba’s highest court has ordered two prominent dissidents to be taken back into custody on the basis that both had separately violated the terms of their parole. On Tuesday, the Tribunal Supremo Popular – sometimes translated as the People’s Supreme Court – authorised the arrests of Jose Daniel Ferrer and Felix Navarro. “In addition to…
NewsFeed Palestinians across the occupied West Bank are commemorating the annual Prisoners’ Day on Thursday, by holding rallies and demonstrations, dedicated to the nearly 10,000 detainees held in Israeli prisons. Many of these prisoners face years in Israeli detention with no charge, suffering from abuse and torture. Published On 17 Apr 202517 Apr 2025 Source…
