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Commentary: China’s human rights abuses against Uyghurs must not go ignored

The international community should make China a pariah for its crimes against the Uyghur population. Last month’s report from the U.N. Human Rights Office says China’s actions could constitute crimes against humanity. The United States and others have called it genocide.

Chicago Tribune

UN approves Austria’s Volker Turk as new human rights chief

Turk’s immediate challenge is to follow up on previous UN rights chief’s report on abuse of Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang.

Al Jazeera

For Qatar's foreign workers, protesting can lead to deportation

As Qatar prepares to host the FIFA World Cup in November, the country is once again drawing criticism from human rights organisations. For several months, a construction company's workers have been protesting to claim unpaid wages. But on August 14, the Qatari government arrested some of them and deported them.

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Airstrikes on Syria’s Idlib Kill 7

Syrian regime airstrikes over the country’s northwestern Idlib province on Thursday killed seven civilians and wounded at least 12, activists and first responders said. The Syrian opposition, which now holds only a tiny sliver of the country, blamed Russian-backed warplanes for the attack. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Austrian diplomat tipped to head sensitive UN rights office

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has proposed a veteran Austrian diplomat to head the global body’s human rights office at a time when it is facing harsh criticism from China for accusing Beijing of abuses against Muslim minorities

The Independent UK

Body of Brit aid worker captured by Russian separatists in Ukraine ‘shows signs of torture’

Paul Urey died while being held by separatists forces in July, the human rights ombudsperson for the Kremlin-supported leadership in Donetsk stated.

Daily Record

Israeli Official: Attack on Aleppo Airport a ‘Message to Assad’

Chairman of the Israeli Parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Ram Ben-Barak said on Wednesday that airstrikes on Aleppo International Airport had been a signal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Israeli airstrikes have killed at least three people and damaged the airport in northern Syria, according to the Syrian…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Swiss press human rights concerns with China

Switzerland called a meeting with China's ambassador to express its concern about the human rights situation in the western region of Xinjiang, the foreign ministry in Bern said on Thursday, correcting its earlier comment that it had "summoned" the envoy.

Reuters

US: Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians forced to Russia

The United States says it has evidence that “hundreds of thousands” of Ukrainian citizens have been interrogated, detained and forcibly deported to Russia

The Independent UK

Family's anger as frail and disabled dad, 92, denied care package on release from hospital

"My father’s human rights to reside in his own home and to be treated with dignity have been trampled."

Belfast Live

Busy first day hints at six plans Liz Truss Government has in pipeline for UK

Human rights and fracking law reforms plus raft of measures to tackle the energy crisis are on the cards

Wales Online

Liz Truss hits pause on Bill of Rights plans which would trample over devolution

LIZ Truss has shelved controversial plans to introduce a Bill of Rights, it is understood.

The National (Scotland)

New Israeli rules on West Bank entry: Controversial regulations delayed and amended

Israeli authorities are pushing to impose new restrictions on foreigners who wish to visit or live in the West Bank. Human rights groups say the measures will have serious consequences for thousands of people who are married to or in relationships with Palestinians. The regulations, which were due to come…

France 24

Liz Truss government shelves Bill of Rights – but vows to carry out human rights overhaul

Ex-justice secretary Dominic Raab’s bill described as ‘a mess’ by Truss camp

The Independent UK

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Raab’s Bill of Rights shelved by Truss Government

The legislation was intended to replace the Human Rights Act.

Reuters

Britain to shelve proposed Bill of Rights - The Sun

Britain's new government will shelve plans for a Bill of Rights aimed at giving London power to ignore rulings from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the Sun newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Daily Record

Scot detained in India for five years begs Liz Truss not to swap his freedom for trade deals in handwritten note

Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, was arrested when he was in India for his wedding in 2017 over his activism and campaigning for Sikh human rights.

ABC News

High Court decision on WA law that allows indefinite detention for 'serious offenders' shocks human rights lawyers

The High Court has denied an appeal from a first-time offender who, having served his time, challenged a WA law that allows the state to indefinitely detain or impose strict conditions on criminals deemed likely to reoffend.

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Woman sentenced to death suffers heart attack watching 16 men executed before her

Zahra Esmaili's lawyer Omid Moradi claimed she suffered a heart attack in the moments leading up to her hanging.

Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka must ‘reverse the drift towards militarisation’: UN

Latest UN report calls on Sri Lanka to end its human rights violations as country faces its worst economic crisis.

The Conversation

UN report on China's abuse of Uyghurs is stronger than expected but missing a vital word: genocide

The long-awaited UN report into human rights abuses committed in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) was finally published last week to a mixed reception. For some – principally the Chinese government – it went too far. Others thought it didn’t go far enough.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Human Rights Groups Condemn Torture in Lebanese Prisons

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…

Reuters

Ethnic attacks kill 60 in Ethiopia's Oromiya, says human rights body

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.

Daily Mirror

Woman condemned to hang suffers heart attack watching 16 executed before her

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

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds of Hazaras killed by ISKP since Taliban took power, say rights group

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

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