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Human Rights Watch on Tuesday said there was "compelling evidence" that Russian paramilitary troops were committing serious rights abuses and killing civilians in the Central African Republic.

Human rights groups raised concerns about hate speech on Twitter and the power that its takeover by Elon Musk would give the billionaire. Musk has been called a 'free speech absolutist' and has been critical of Twitter's policies of moderating content on the platform.

Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth said on Tuesday he would step down at the end of August after running the global rights watchdog for nearly three decades.

Russia said on Friday it was shutting down the local offices of more than a dozen international organisations including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Human Rights Watch said that one of its senior staff members was targeted last year with spyware designed by the Israeli hacker-for hire company NSO Group.

Human Rights Watch said Monday a Saudi court had sentenced a Yemeni man to 15 years for apostasy, urging the kingdom to prioritise decriminalising blasphemy amid a modernisation drive.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on more than 100 killings from Ghazni, Helmand, Kandahar, and Kunduz provinces alone.

Facebook and its Instagram platform have wrongfully removed and suppressed content by Palestinians, including about abuses during Israeli-Palestinian violence this year, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.

A report released by Human Rights Watch on Tuesday concluded there was strong evidence to suggest some Lebanese officials knew about and tacitly accepted the lethal risks posed by ammonium nitrate stored at Beirut port.

YouTube has forced Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights' channel, which attracted millions of views on YouTube to testimonies from people who say their families have disappeared in China's Xinjiang region, to move its videos to a little-known service Odysee after some were taken down by the Google-owned streaming giant.

Campaigners Human Rights Watch have called for proof of life of the daughter of Dubai's ruler and international pressure to free her after footage emerged apparently showing the royal in distress.

The man accused of orchestrating India's biggest bank fraud once counted among his most prized possessions an MF Husain painting that depicts the tussle between right and wrong in the human soul. The Battle of Ganga & Jamuna is the centerpiece of an auction Friday in Mumbai, where India's fraud investigation office is seeking to recover as much as ...

Adultery and gay sex in Brunei will be subject to death by stoning from next week, authorities said, under a strict Sharia law that has been on hold for four years amid heavy criticism.

The wife of ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn has alleged her husband is being held in "harsh" conditions and subjected to round-the-clock interrogations intended to extract a confession.

Syria's nearly eight-year-old conflict saw its lowest annual death toll in 2018 as the regime reasserted its authority over swathes of territory, a war monitor said on Monday.

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday said there was "compelling evidence" that Russian paramilitary troops were committing serious rights abuses and killing civilians in the Central African Republic.

Human rights groups raised concerns about hate speech on Twitter and the power that its takeover by Elon Musk would give the billionaire. Musk has been called a 'free speech absolutist' and has been critical of Twitter's policies of moderating content on the platform.

Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth said on Tuesday he would step down at the end of August after running the global rights watchdog for nearly three decades.

Russia said on Friday it was shutting down the local offices of more than a dozen international organisations including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Human Rights Watch said that one of its senior staff members was targeted last year with spyware designed by the Israeli hacker-for hire company NSO Group.

Human Rights Watch said Monday a Saudi court had sentenced a Yemeni man to 15 years for apostasy, urging the kingdom to prioritise decriminalising blasphemy amid a modernisation drive.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on more than 100 killings from Ghazni, Helmand, Kandahar, and Kunduz provinces alone.

Facebook and its Instagram platform have wrongfully removed and suppressed content by Palestinians, including about abuses during Israeli-Palestinian violence this year, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.

A report released by Human Rights Watch on Tuesday concluded there was strong evidence to suggest some Lebanese officials knew about and tacitly accepted the lethal risks posed by ammonium nitrate stored at Beirut port.

YouTube has forced Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights' channel, which attracted millions of views on YouTube to testimonies from people who say their families have disappeared in China's Xinjiang region, to move its videos to a little-known service Odysee after some were taken down by the Google-owned streaming giant.

Campaigners Human Rights Watch have called for proof of life of the daughter of Dubai's ruler and international pressure to free her after footage emerged apparently showing the royal in distress.

The man accused of orchestrating India's biggest bank fraud once counted among his most prized possessions an MF Husain painting that depicts the tussle between right and wrong in the human soul. The Battle of Ganga & Jamuna is the centerpiece of an auction Friday in Mumbai, where India's fraud investigation office is seeking to recover as much as ...

Adultery and gay sex in Brunei will be subject to death by stoning from next week, authorities said, under a strict Sharia law that has been on hold for four years amid heavy criticism.

The wife of ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn has alleged her husband is being held in "harsh" conditions and subjected to round-the-clock interrogations intended to extract a confession.

Syria's nearly eight-year-old conflict saw its lowest annual death toll in 2018 as the regime reasserted its authority over swathes of territory, a war monitor said on Monday.