human rights
Sept. 30 2021, 8:09 pm
Reuters: Belarus should face further action over plane diversion, US nominee says
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s nominee as U.S. representative to a U.N. aviation body suggested on Sept. 30 that Belarus should be temporarily …
Reuters
Sept. 30 2021, 8:01 pm
RFE/RL: Uzbek activist, held at Moscow airport, seeks asylum in Ukraine
MOSCOW — A migrant rights defender from Uzbekistan who is being held at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport while facing deportation to Tashkent, where she …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Sept. 30 2021, 7:45 pm
Reuters: US envoy says Belarus shooting provides further evidence of rights abuses
The United States on Sept. 29 condemned the death of a man in a shooting in Belarus, saying it provided further evidence of human rights abuses under …
Reuters
Sept. 30 2021, 11:09 am
Reuters: Belarus opposition says man killed in shootout was IT worker
Belarusian security forces shot dead a 31-year-old man, identified by the pro-democracy opposition as an IT worker with U.S. company EPAM Systems, …
Reuters
Sept. 30 2021, 10:15 am
Associated Press: Russia labels media outlet, 2 rights groups ‘foreign agents’
MOSCOW — Russian authorities on Sept. 29 designated a popular independent media outlet and two rights groups “foreign agents,” a move that comes as …
Associated Press
Sept. 29 2021, 9:30 pm
RFE/RL: Belarusian authorities seek dissolution of top human rights group
International human rights organizations are urging Belarus’s authorities to withdraw a lawsuit requesting the liquidation of one of the country’s …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Sept. 28 2021, 9:34 pm
Belarus sees no need now to hold referendum on death penalty
MINSK – Belarus intends to hold a separate referendum on capital punishment in the future, Chairman of the Belarusian Constitutional Court and …
Interfax-Ukraine
Sept. 28 2021, 8:08 pm
BBC: Female Afghan judges hunted by the murderers they convicted
They were the trailblazers of women’s rights in Afghanistan. They were the staunch defenders of the law, seeking justice for their country’s most …
BBC
Sept. 28 2021, 7:14 pm
AFP: Longing for home, exiled Crimean Tatars build new life in Kyiv
Born in exile, Rustem Skybin returned to his ancestral homeland Crimea in the mid-1990s only to be uprooted – just like his family before him – nearly …
Agence France-Presse
Sept. 25 2021, 10:31 am
RFE/RL: Russian court sentences 5 Jehovah’s Witnesses to prison
A Russian court has sentenced five Jehovah’s Witnesses to between six and six-and-a-half years in prison in the latest crackdown on the religious …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Sept. 25 2021, 9:57 am
Associated Press: Hungary committed to contentious LGBT law (Interview)
UNITED NATIONS — The right-wing populist government in Hungary is attracting conservative thinkers from the United States who admire its approaches to …
Associated Press
Sept. 24 2021, 9:14 pm
RFE/RL: Russian actors jailed in latest clampdown on political parody
If Russian comedians think the authorities don’t share their sense of humor, perhaps they can be forgiven: evidence supporting such suspicions is …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Sept. 24 2021, 7:58 pm
Reuters: Russian police detain activists ahead of protest
MOSCOW – Russian police detained opposition activists on Sept. 24 and warned they would break up any illegal rallies this weekend after an opposition …
Reuters
Sept. 24 2021, 7:45 pm
Reuters: Russia boosts online monitoring tools in clampdown on banned content
MOSCOW – Russia will add three new tools to its technological arsenal as part of its fight against banned content online, state procurement documents …
Reuters
Sept. 24 2021, 5:44 pm
Reuters: Brussels urges Poland to protect human lives, allow EU guards to Belarus border
BRUSSELS – The EU executive expressed concern on Sept. 24 over the plight of migrants stuck on the Polish-Belarusian border and urged Warsaw to allow …
Reuters
Sept. 24 2021, 4:51 pm
Reuters: UN rights chief urges Belarus neighbours to protect asylum-seekers
GENEVA – The United Nations human rights chief called on Belarus’ neighbours on Sept. 24 to protect asylum seekers after four people died near the …
Reuters
Sept. 24 2021, 4:25 pm
RFE/RL: Poland reports fourth migrant death at Belarusian border in days
The Polish border guard service says an Iraqi migrant has died near the country’s frontier with Belarus, the fourth such death in the area over the …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Sept. 23 2021, 7:51 pm
RFE/RL: Belarus extends detention of Russian girlfriend of arrested blogger
A court in Belarus has extended the pretrial detention of Sofia Sapega, who was arrested along with her boyfriend, opposition blogger Roman …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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