Human Rights
Hero: Cuban activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara given 2024 Rafto Prize for human rights
The institution's ruling highlights that the 36 year-old Cuban, currently in prison, “has been arrested countless times for his activism”
The institution's ruling highlights that the 36 year-old Cuban, currently in prison, “has been arrested countless times for his activism”
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has obtained evidence a Russian district commander fled the front line after the contract soldiers under his command threatened to kill him rather than continue fighting
The judges determined that the procedure may be carried out without the victim having to prove that she was sexually assaulted
Russian far-right groups and neo-Nazis are participating in President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, making his intent to “de-Nazify” Kyiv “absurd,” say German intelligence officials
"We are not the source of the problem. The source of the problem that leads to world hunger are those who imposed sanctions against us, and the sanctions themselves"
The food supply chain problems may last years, the expert warned
"Belarus has found new ways to intimidate and punish its own citizens, including by approving legislation to apply the death penalty to pro-democracy activists and those opposing Russia’s war in Ukraine,” Blinken warned
Biden administration waves white flag, surrenders Florida by easing Trump era sanctions by risking huge Cuban American vote of millions. State Dept. says changes will help entrepreneurs and democracy groups that were already granted a general license under OFAC
Hong Kong authorities arrested and questioned Roman Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party
The New Jersey based U.S. Congressman condemned the Chinese Communist Party for its practice of harvesting organs from live prisoners at a Congressional hearing on Thursday, calling for “immediate concerted effort to stop this barbaric practice—not only in China, but also by its global enablers”
China’s Catholics are split between an underground church that swears loyalty to the Vatican and the state-sponsored Catholic Patriotic Association