Sources: Reuters via MSNBC
United Nations human rights investigators accuse Israel of crimes against humanity and the crime of extermination by deliberately targeting health facilities and medical personnel in Gaza. 2024-10-10
Three human rights organisations, Al Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, file a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court calling for the court to consider apartheid and genocide in its investigation of the ongoing situation in Palestine. 2023-11-9
A people's court in Linshu County, Shandong, China, sentences prominent human rights and democracy activists Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi to 14 and 12 years in prison, respectively, for subverting state power. 2023-04-10
Malaysian human rights advocacy group Lawyers for Liberty sues Singaporean Home Minister K. Shanmugam in Malaysian High Court after his office invoked the country's anti-fake news law to censor the group's criticisms of the death penalty there. The plaintiff argues that the move represents "an attempt by Singapore to encroach upon, stifle or crack down on freedom of speech in Malaysia". 2020-01-24
Norwegian justice minister Sylvi Listhaug resigns amid controversy over remarks on human rights and national security. 2018-03-20
Russia announces a tit-for-tat visa bar on Americans guilty of human rights violations, over the US Magnitsky bill. 2012-12-7
China releases an annual report on human rights, criticizing the United States' human rights record, citing the arrest of Occupy Wall Street protesters and Internet restrictions. 2012-05-26
Human Rights Watch raises claims of serious human rights abuses in a clash between Myanmar Armed Forces and the Kachin Independence Army in a dispute in Kachin State that has displaced approximately 75,000 people. 2012-03-20
Three Venezuelan hunger strikers are hospitalised after calling for an international probe into alleged human rights abuses by the President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez. 2011-02-21
Iranian human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari is convicted of gathering and plotting to commit crimes against the Iranian state, propaganda against the establishment and waging war against God. 2010-09-18