EU migration package risks racial profiling and discrimination, NGOs say
Seventeen groups issue statement sounding alarm at migration laws agreed by most EU members The EU risks opening the door to increased discrimination and racial...
Category : Human rights
Iran’s Mahsa Amini awarded EU’s Sakharov human rights prize
Top MEP says Iranian woman’s death in police custody last year ‘triggered a movement that is making history’ Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman...
Suella Braverman restates wish for UK to leave European court of human rights
Home secretary calls the court ‘politicised’ and refuses to rule out mass tagging of asylum seekers Suella Braverman has reiterated her wish to leave what...
Poland deports Russian asylum seeker who claimed to have fled FSB
Secret service decided backstory of purported Russian security service officer was not credible Poland has deported a purported former Russian FSB officer who sought asylum...
Belarusian Nobel peace prize winner moved to brutal prison
Ales Bialiatski has been in jail for 20 months following mass protests over regime of Alexander Lukashenko The Nobel peace prize laureate Ales Bialiatski has...
French court’s approval of Olympics AI surveillance plan fuels privacy concerns
Rights groups including Amnesty and Human Rights Watch call proposals ‘a dangerous precedent’ in open letter France’s top constitutional court has sanctioned the controversial use...
Belarus jails senior staff at independent news site in crackdown on Lukashenko critics
Twelve-year sentences for the women condemned as president’s ‘revenge’ while UN report accuses country of possible crimes against humanity Belarus has handed long jail terms...
EU could end joint policing if UK quits ECHR over small boat crossings
Legal experts say Brussels has right to take retaliatory action, making cross-border law enforcement harder UK politics live – latest news updates The UK’s trade...
Ukraine urges ICC to investigate video appearing to show Russians killing PoW
Graphic clip shows detained combatant standing in a shallow trench before being apparently shot Ukraine has urged the international criminal court to investigate footage circulating...
Belarus jails Nobel peace prize-winning dissident Ales Bialiatski
Pro-democracy activist sentenced to 10 years as part of Alexander Lukashenko’s purge of opponents Belarus has sentenced the Nobel peace prize-winning dissident Ales Bialiatski to...
