Tag: Human rights
the UN human rights office deplores at least 80 victims linked to the electoral process
The UN Joint Human Rights Office expressed in its semi-annual report that it is concerned about the ” restrictions to the democratic space, four months before the general elections. 1…
director Saeed Roustaee sentenced to prison for showing his film in Cannes
Iranian justice sentenced the famous director Saeed Roustaee to six months in prison for the screening of his film Leila and her brothers at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022,…
Ten years ago, the Rabaa al-Adhawiya Square massacre, a turning point in Egypt
On August 14, 2013, in Rabaa al-Adhawiya and Nahda squares in Cairo, the Egyptian authorities bloodily repressed a protest movement by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi against the military…
In the Paris region, a workshop to help young people face facies checks
The players in the field: mediators, association activists, elected officials spent time with young people and parents to reduce tension after the riots that shook France. In Vitry-sur-Seine, in the…
Controversy over the words of the director of the national police: There is a “panic in the face of demands from the base”
An interview with the director general of the national police in Le Parisien caused a stir in the political class and among the magistrates. In reaction to the incarceration of…
The noose tightens around journalists in Iraqi Kurdistan
On Thursday, the criminal court in Erbil increased the sentence of Kurdish journalist and human rights defender Sherwan Sherwani, already imprisoned since 2020 for “undermining national security”, by four years.…
With the heat wave, living conditions in prison still deteriorated, deplore the supervisors
With narrow and overcrowded cells, the conditions of detention, already difficult in normal times, become a nightmare in hot weather, say the prison guards. 1 min The thermometer explodes in…
Nike Canada and Dinasty Gold accused of using Uyghur forced labor
The forced labor of the Uyghurs at the heart of two investigations opened in Canada. Mining company Dynasty Gold and Nike Canada are in the crosshairs of the corporate accountability…
four settlers placed in administrative detention for violence against Palestinians
A week after attacks by Jewish settlers against Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, four settlers were arrested and placed in administrative detention. This controversial measure allows Israel to…
The “Sunday Journal” on strike against the arrival at its head of Geoffroy Lejeune
The Sunday newspaper is not on newsstands this Sunday, June 25 because of a strike by its employees to protest against the arrival at the management of the weekly of…