The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) alerted the public on Tuesday of a second case of spyware attack on a journalist and urged Italian authorities to investigate. CPJ’s Europe representative, Attila Mong, criticized the targeting of journalists and categorized it as “a pattern of surveillance aimed at intimidating and silencing investigative reporting.” Mong recognized these [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) expressed concern on Monday over the suspension of the Iraqi political talk show Al-Haq Yuqal (The Truth Be Told), hosted by journalist Adnan Al-Taie, and urged the Iraqi authorities to restore the program. Iraqi authorities, citing “violations of public decency,” suspended the program for seven days and ordered past [...]

Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday criticized Polish legislation suspending the right to asylum applications for migrants crossing the border from Belarus. According to AI, the law effectively codifies the unlawful forced return of migrants by authorizing border guards to disregard asylum applications without properly considering a person’s individual’s circumstances. AI alleges that the legislation, enacted [...]

UN human rights experts published a statement Wednesday expressing concern over unlawful US deportations to El Salvador. According to the statement, the US has deported over 250 Venezuelan and Salvadoran men, who were allegedly involved with gangs. The experts stated that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, invoked by the Trump administration to authorize the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement Monday reassuring the US civil society groups of the human rights group’s solidarity amidst Trump administration funding cuts. The human rights group highlighted that the funding cuts are “not a policy shift, but a direct and unjustifiable attack on the work of many important organizations.” The statement underlined [...]

Poland’s Council of Ministers adopted a regulation on Thursday suspending the right to asylum applications for migrants arriving from Belarus. The regulation will implement a 60-day restriction on the right to asylum on the border with Belarus. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that the regulation will come into force immediately. This regulation comes into [...]

Amnesty International (AI) on Monday called for an end to unlawful violence against protesters and detention of journalists by police in Türkiye. The country has seen mass protests in the wake of the detention of opposition presidential candidate, Ekrem İmamoğlu. According to AI, authorities have confirmed the arrest of 1,133 protesters and at least eight [...]

A member of Russia’s Presidential Council for Human Rights shared her outrage on Thursday over the arrest and beating of a Russian comedian in Belarus, and urged Russia’s authorities to protect the rights of Russian citizens in foreign states. Council member Eva Merkacheva called on Russian authorities to provide the necessary medical attention to the [...]

Russian online media RusNews revealed Wednesday two letters from an imprisoned journalist and anti-war activist, Maria Ponomarenko, which demonstrate her current suicidal tendency. Amnesty International urged the authorities to protect her from further self-harm and release her immediately. RusNews stated that the Russian authorities censored the letters, which indicated her suffering in prison and asked [...]

Last week, after a six-hour drive, I arrived in Charlevoix, Quebec, where G7 Foreign Ministers met from March 12 to 14. Hosted by Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly, the meeting was attended by the foreign ministers of the UK, Germany, the US, Italy, Japan and the European Union (EU). When I arrived at [...]