South Korea reports Pyongyang building up enriched uranium supplies, insists ‘stopping’ nuclear development ‘urgent’.

Egypt’s Parliament Should Open New Era of Consultation www.hrw.org/news/2025/09... my latest dispatch on Sisi's rare move to decline the ratification of the flawed CPC draft.

منظمة العفو الدولية تدعو الدول لحماية أسطول الصمود العالمي بعد استهدافه بالمسيرات shorouknews.com/news/view.as...

اتخذ الرئيسي السيسي قرارا صائبا بإعادة مشروع قانون الإجراءات الجنائية إلى مجلس النواب للمراجعة. ينبغي للمجلس إعادة صياغة القانون بالكامل لضمان احترام التزامات #مصر القانونية الدولية والوطنية. المزيد في بيان 20 منظمة مصرية ودولية: https://bit.ly/46yjOSh

Finally free! Alaa Abdel Fattah has been released after nearly a decade of unlawful imprisonment in Egypt. There are many like him still imprisoned in Egypt for simply exercising their right to freedom of speech. Egypt’s government should release all those wrongfully detained.

There is no organization called "antifa" - so, why label a non-existent group "terrorists"? This gives the regime maximum scope to hunt down opposition and critics. They label you "antifa", and then they come for you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"أنت علوي؟" تقرير مشترك لـ "هيومن رايتس ووتش"، و"سوريون من أجل الحقيقة والعدالة"، و"الأرشيف السوري" يوثق الانتهاكات الدموية التي استهدفت المجتمعات العلوية في مارس/آذار 2025 في #سوريا. https://bit.ly/3KzmWpG

Incredible news today that Sisi pardoned Alaa Abdel Fattah, Egypt's most prominent political prisoner who has been imprisoned more or less continuously since 2014. He should be released once Sisi’s decision is published in the Official Gazette www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Sinai Foundation for Human Rights & @forensicarchi.bsky.social released a groundbreaking report today detailing, for the first time, details on a mass grave in North Sinai where the Egyptian military buried hundreds most likely killed in extrajudicial killings. sinaifhr.org/show/627

أصدرت مؤسسة سيناء لحقوق الإنسان، بالتعاون مع فورنيسك أركيتكتشر، اليوم تقريرا جديدا يكشف لأول مرة عن مقبرة جماعية في شمال سيناء قرب العريش أنشأها وأخفاها لسنوات قوات الجيش حيث يعتقد أنها تضم رفات المئات من الأشخاص الذين قتلوا في إعدامات خارج القانون. . sinaifhr.org/show/619

It's amazing how many Western outlets find no issue reporting attacks on civilian structures in the context of Ukraine/Russia. But most definitely Israel has all right to decimate Gaza and turn it into a grisly apocalyptic wasteland. Attacks against civilians is only evil when done by Hamas.

ترقُّب الإفراج عن الناشط المصري البريطاني المسجون #علاء_عبد_الفتاح إثر العفو من الرئيس السيسي. ينبغي الإفراج عن المحتجزين تعسفا جميعهم في #مصر. https://bit.ly/4nIuQeD

"Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from schoolteachers to metalworkers, called for a 24-hour general strike...long delays for national trains and limited public transport in major cities, including Rome." apnews.com/article/ital...

Sollte die ägyptische Regierung wirklich gewillt sein, ihre Menschenrechtsbilanz zu verbessern, sollte sie die Tausenden, die weiterhin wegen friedlicher Meinungsäußerung in Ägyptens Gefängnissen verrotten, freilassen und unabhängigen Medien + Zivilgesellschaft ermöglichen, frei im Land zu arbeiten.

“President Sisi’s pardon of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah is long overdue good news. Though we celebrate his pardon ... Hopefully his release will act as a watershed moment & provide an opportunity for Sisi’s government to end the wrongful detention of 1000s of critics.” www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Alaa's family deserve to live in peace and justice. Alaa, and everyone detained for their peaceful activism, deserve freedom. Freedom to all Egyptians in Sisi's jail!

Momentous news that will reverberate far beyond Egypt: A presidential pardon for Alaa Abd el-Fattah. His family worked for years for this moment: His mother went on a hunger strike that very nearly killed her to secure her son's freedom. His sister camped outside the British foreign office.

When politicians undermine the European Court of Human Rights, we all lose. With Europe facing some of the gravest threats since the end of WW2, European governments should be bolstering regional institutions, not undermining them. Read my new analysis for @HRW www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Eine Kommission der Vereinten Nationen hat festgestellt, dass Israel in Gaza Völkermord begeht. Da die israelische Regierung ihre Angriffe auf Gaza-Stadt weiter verschärft und die noch verbliebene zivile Infrastruktur Gazas zerstört, haben alle Staaten die Pflicht, zu handeln.

every single photo or video coming out of Gaza only leaves me thinking of the movies and pictures I have seen of the Nazi brutality that wreaked havoc upon much of the people in Eastern Europe in the WWII.

"Explicit statements by Israeli civilian and military authorities and the pattern of conduct of the Israeli security forces indicate that the genocidal acts were committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as a group."

In #Gaza gibt es keinen sicheren Ort. Israel hat Tausende Palästinenser*innen in Gaza-Stadt aufgefordert, die Stadt zu verlassen, während das Militär eine weitere Großoffensive vorbereitet. Staaten müssen handeln, um Völkermord in Gaza zu verhindern, und Israel dazu bringen, seinen Kurs zu ändern.

Die deutsche Justiz ist verpflichtet, strafrechtlichen Anfangsverdachtsmomenten nachzugehen. "Die Generalbundesanwaltschaft kann nicht einfach sagen: Wir stellen das ein. Sie muss ermitteln und dann entscheiden, ob Anklage erhoben wird oder nicht", erklärt Völkerrechtler Kai Ambos.

Gruesome

OCCRP on new @HRW.org reporting: Egypt Expands Crackdown, Casting Online Creators as Threats to State Morality www.occrp.org/en/news/soci...

Historical vote that tells you where the world stands except a handful of nations of power which abuses their hegemony to resist law, peace and co-living.

1/3 #Gaza: the European Parliament adopted a resolution urging the EU Council & Commission to: - Suspend the #EU - #Israel trade deal - Sanction Ben Gvir, Smotrich & settlers - Support the ICC, activate the EU blocking statute against US sanctions - Halt arms exports amid risks of complicity ...

تصاعدت حملة السلطات المصرية على صانعي المحتوى باسم "الأخلاق" بشكل مرعب. الاعتقال والحبس وتدمير حياة البشر أصبح أسهل من شرب الماء. الجديد هذه المرة أن الحملة توسعت لتشمل أطيافا أخرى مثل فناني الوشم، وصانعي محتوى يستخدمون كلمات يستخدمها أغلب الناس بلا حرج كل يوم. www.hrw.org/ar/news/2025...

Morocco: Exonerate, Release Activist Sentenced for Blasphemy www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

لينكر ، مذيع تلفزيوني تم طرده من بي بي سي بسبب تصريحات عن فلسطين، يتم اختياره كأفضل مقدم برامج داخل بريطانيا. الشعوب تتحدث والكثير من الحكومات والمؤسسات الرسمية الغربية مصممة على النفاق والمعايير المزدوجة www.shorouknews.com/news/view.as...

US Uses ICC Sanctions Against Three Leading Palestinian Rights Groups www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Egypt: Mass Crackdown Targets Online Content Creators www.hrw.org/news/2025/09... “This is part of the government’s relentless attempt to criminalize all forms of expression that do not conform with its political or social views.”

The Fracturing of an Empire.

Horrifying.

إلى متى تستمر بعض الحكومات في الدول البيضاء التصرف على أسس عنصرية بيضاء تحقر من الدم الفلسطيني بدلا من صريح القانون وما خلص له أغلب الدارسين والباحثين والعلماء؟ "رسالة حكومية بريطانية: لم نخلص إلى أن ما تفعله إسرائيل في غزة إبادة جماعية" www.shorouknews.com/news/view.as...

«إسرائيل لن تتحمل انهيار السلام مع مصر».. «هآرتس» تهاجم نتنياهو وتدعوه لوقف التصعيد www.almasryalyoum.com/news/details...

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“Rightwing populists all over Europe want to destroy the ability of the UK and the EU to regulate large tech platforms — a move that might threaten their disinformation campaigns with genuine political debate.” They use disingenuous claims of censorship to protect the tech companies.

New from @knightcolumbia.org: Ken Stern on the academic-freedom implications of universities using the IHRA definition of antisemitism to mark the outer limits of free speech and inquiry on campus. knightcolumbia.org/content/a-ba...

“horrors of death by starvation will intensify if Israel is not stopped ... 0.5 m ppl in Gaza are starving. Have State authorities become so numb to these numbers — so desensitised, once again, to the systematic breaches of our collective moral and legal obligations?” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

It was always collective punishment

@hrw.org published a Q&A on #reparations for historical & ongoing colonial atrocities ahead of a AU-CARICOM summit. A unified African-Caribbean rights-based position on reparations shaped w civil society & communities would be a gamechanger for the reparations movement. www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Iran: Authorities Unleash Wave of Oppression After Hostilities with Israel www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

All Solidarity and support to @HRW.org Kenya colleague, Otsieno Namwaya, who's been harrassed by the Police for no reason but his brave, human rights work. www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

Failure to ensure due diligence makes @ec.europa.eu & #Spain Gov't complicit of serious abuses in #Mauritania. @hrw.org report urges EU & its member states to refrain from migration cooperation that is not free from rights violations. In @euobserver.com: euobserver.com/migration/ar...

“The Biden administration was totally feckless when it came to holding the Netanyahu government to the standard of American law and the standards that we claim to apply to every other country in the world when it comes to the duty to provide humanitarian assistance.” Senator Chris Van Hollen.

🚨 New @hrw.org report documents years of serious abuses by security forces in #Mauritania against West & Central African migrants, while those same authorities received equipment/support 💰 from the EU & #Spain to bolster border control & prevent irregular migration 🧵👇 www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

We knew at the time that a deeply deeply horrific assault had occurred, but just absolutely shaken by this report detailing the massacre at Zamzam in April 2025. Genocide. Utterly shaken. “They slaughtered us like animals” www.theguardian.com/global-devel... ‘

Human Rights Watch says US arms used in ‘unlawful indiscriminate’ Israeli attacks that killed Palestinian civilians.

Leaked documents reveal Israel’s spy agency used Microsoft’s cloud to store Palestinians’ phone calls and target them.