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France condemns execution of four political prisoners in Myanmar

France on Monday "strongly condemned" the execution of four political prisoners in Myanmar, calling the killings "a major regression" for the country's military regime. It is the Asian country's first use of capital punishment in decades.

Radio France Internationale

Houthi ‘Massacre’ of Taiz Children Angers Human Rights Defenders, Yemeni Parties

A Houthi militia attack that hit a residential neighborhood in Taiz, killing and injuring children, has angered human rights defenders in Yemen with the government calling for more pressure on the Iran-backed group to get it to commit to the UN-sponsored truce before it expires on August 2. The Houthi…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Myanmar carries out its first executions in decades, including democracy activists

Those executed were a former National League for Democracy lawmaker, a democracy activist and two men accused of violence after the country's takeover by the military last year.

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Group Seeks Ex-Sri Lankan President's Arrest in Singapore

A human rights group said Sunday it had filed a criminal complaint with Singapore’s attorney general to seek the arrest of Sri Lanka’s former president for alleged war crimes during his country’s civil war. Gotabaya Rajapaksa was ousted from office over his country's economic collapse and fled to Singapore earlier…

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Myanmar executes NLD lawmaker, 3 other political opponents

Myanmar has carried out its first executions in nearly 50 years with the hangings of a former National League for Democracy lawmaker, a democracy activist and two men convicted of targeted violence after the military takeover last year

The Independent UK

Myanmar executes democracy activists in new turn against dissent

Myanmar’s junta has executed four prisoners including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, state media said Monday, in the country’s first use of capital punishment in decades.

France 24

Drew Pavlou says he is victim of ‘orchestrated campaign’ after arrest over false ‘bomb threat’

Human rights leaders report receiving emails from account purporting to be from Pavlou in recent days after campaigner’s arrest in London

The Guardian - AU

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Canada's child-care investment needs to advance climate change policy goals

On Oct. 8 last year, the United Nations Human Rights Council recognized that a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right.

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Brenda Hale: ‘There’s absolutely no need to scrap the Human Rights Act’

The former supreme court president on the government’s Rwanda plan, her star status among law students and her latest brooch

The Guardian - UK

Attorney general Suella Braverman contradicted by own department on legality of Rwanda deportations

Braverman had wanted to ‘eliminate’ protections against torture, using the policy as a pretext

The Independent UK

Iran Carries Out 1st Public Execution in 2 Years

Iran on Saturday carried out its first public execution in over two years, an NGO said, as concern grows over rising repression in the country. Iman Sabzikar, who had been convicted over the murder of a police officer in February 2022 in the southern city of Shiraz, was hanged in…

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Myanmar soldiers admit burning innocent girl alive in harrowing confessions

Another soldier who has been named Thiha described how young women were detained by soldiers and then gang-raped for days amid a catalogue of horrendous human rights atrocities detailed by members of the Myanmar military

Daily Mirror

Rights groups urge Sri Lanka not to use force on protesters

Human Rights Watch says government crackdown ‘sends a dangerous message to people’ while Amnesty calls it ‘shameful’.

Al Jazeera

Australian activist detained in London over alleged bomb threat email sent to Chinese embassy

Drew Pavlou says he was kept in custody overnight by British police and held incommunicado over allegations he had emailed a bomb threat to the Chinese embassy before a protest in London.

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India, six others vote against resolution to grant UN accreditation to six rights groups

At the meeting of the 54-member Economic and Social Council, the Committee on Non-Governmental Organisations recommended 203 groups for special consultative status.

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Rights Groups Urge Sri Lanka Not to Use Unlawful Force

International human rights groups are urging Sri Lanka’s new president to immediately order security forces to cease all unlawful use of force against protesters who have been demonstrating against the government — for months — over the country’s economic meltdown.

The Independent UK

Sri Lankan president urged not to use force on protesters

An international human rights group is urging Sri Lanka’s new president to immediately order security forces to cease all unlawful use of force against protesters who have been demonstrating against the government — for months — over the country’s economic meltdown

ABC News

Vegan protester Tash Peterson is banned from every WA pub via liquor laws. Legal experts are concerned

The use of the Liquor Control Act to ban controversial activist Tash Peterson from every bar and restaurant in the state has been described by legal experts as "overreach" and a "misuse" of the law.

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Delhi Metro Rail Corporation removes misleading transgender signage for toilets

NEW DELHI: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has informed National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) that the transgender signage for toilets, which was considered not acceptable by the community, has been removed.

Bangkok Post

'Spywaregate' needs answers

The National Human Rights Commission and other related agencies must step in to examine allegations that the government has routinely used phone spyware to surveil dozens of politicians and pro-democracy activists known for playing active roles in demanding the reform of major institutions.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Court Rejects Myanmar Claims, Will Hear Rohingya Case

Judges at the United Nations’ highest court on Friday dismissed preliminary objections by Myanmar to a case alleging the Southeast Asian nation is responsible for genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority. The decision establishing the International Court of Justice's jurisdiction sets the stage for hearings airing evidence of atrocities against…

The Guardian - UK

Kenyan police officers found guilty of murder of three including human rights lawyer

Four found guilty by a Nairobi court six years after murders of Willie Kimani, Josephat Mwenda and Joseph Muiruri prompted protests in Kenya

Evening Standard

Met Police ‘banned man from Shoreditch’ after he filmed officer’s stop and search

Human rights group Liberty said Met dropped ‘illegitimate’ order after legal challenge

Reuters

Rights group hails murder conviction against police in Kenya

Three police officers and their civilian informant were found guilty of the 2016 murder of a human rights lawyer by a Kenyan court on Friday, a victory for campaigners struggling to hold police accountable for extrajudicial killings.

The Hindu

Human rights panel asks for reports on unsafe footbridge in Idukki

Bridge across the Chinnar river in Idukki precariously positioned

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