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International human rights groups Tuesday condemned acts of torture in Lebanese prisons following the death of a Syrian refugee in detention and urged authorities to transfer the investigation into his death from a military to a civil court. Photos surfaced last week of the battered body of a Syrian who…

Gunmen killed more than 60 people and displaced 20,000 during three days of ethnically motivated violence in late August in Ethiopia's most populous region, Oromiya, the country's human rights commission said on Tuesday.

Zahra Esmaili was sentenced to hang after killing her abusive husband - a rumoured senior Intelligence Ministry official - but died while watching 18 men executed before her in Iran

Human Rights Watch says Taliban is failing to protect Shia minority from violent attacks on mosques, schools and workplaces

Human rights activists say 32-year-old’s treatment shows ‘perilous reality faced by journalists in Russia today‘

Parrenthorn High in Bury, Greater Manchester, has been accused of eroding students’ human rights after it took off the doors in two toilet areas in a bid to "keep pupils as safe as possible and improve the school environment"

Report says 20% of world’s red dates come from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and are likely the products of forced labor.

The Chinese government reacted furiously to the release of a report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 31 August, calling it "wholly illegal and invalid". Read more on Dynamite News:

Leaders of Iranian militias in Syria have ordered their members to completely cease their military activity, warning that violations will be met with penalties. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the militias pulled out all their rocket launchpads from areas extending from Alboukamal to al-Hatla, passing through al-Mayadeen. Al-Mayadeen…

The network has decried Israel’s attempt to ‘evade criminal responsibility’ for the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh.

Palestinian officials, human rights advocates, and the family of Al Jazeera journalist slam findings of Israeli inquiry.