Western World

Records obtained by Amnesty International and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), a New York-based privacy and civil rights group, after a five-year long lawsuit against the New York Police Department (NYPD) reveal concerning su...

Iran HR official urges UK to release jailed Iranian national

Secretary of High Council for Human Rights, Kazem Gharibabadi, has criticized the British Government for rejecting the return of a Christian Iranian national, Richard John, and called for his immediate release from jail.

New Report: Human Rights Violations in Prisons Throughout Southern United States Cause Disparate & Lasting Harm in Black Communities 

Today, the Southern Prisons Coalition, a group of civil and human rights organizations, submitted a new report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination on the devastating consequences of incarceration o...

Iran censures UN rapporteur for backing illegal verdict against Hamid Nouri

Vice-President of the Judiciary for International Affairs and Secretary of the I.R. of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, criticised the support of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, against the illegal sentence of ...

CPS drops anti-Semitism case against two British Muslims

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has dropped charges against two of the four British Muslim men from Blackburn who were charged with anti-Semitism.

After Ghislaine Maxwell’s Insultingly Low Sentence, Lawyers Demand FBI Go After Epstein’s Clients

On Tuesday, as TFTP predicted, Ghislaine Maxwell was handed down a sentence that was 30 years less than prosecutors were asking. Thanks to U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan — who has been granting Maxwell special treatment throughout her prosecution ...

Gharibabadi called on UN to pursue Hamid Nouri's case

In a letter addressed to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Vice-President of the Judiciary for International Affairs and the Secretary of the Islamic Republic of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, asked for follow-up and r...

Amnesty slams global ‘silence’ on situation in Palestinian territories

Director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Raji Sourani, described the disavowal of the lived reality of Palestinians by European states as something he could not get his head around.

Kaitlyn Schwan says the city’s approach may be a violation of human rights

In the summer of 2021, tents started popping up in Sudbury's Memorial Park, a small, square lot of green space in the city's downtown core.

Native American boarding school survivors tell of abuses

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Saturday met with elderly survivors of Native American boarding schools, her first stop on a year-long tour to hear first-hand accounts of widespread abuses committed at those institutions.

It is Now Illegal to Film Near Police Officers in Arizona

Frequent readers of the Free Thought Project know that filming the cops is not a crime. Despite this being a widely known provision — held up with multiple court precedents — cops continue to violate the First Amendment protected right of citizens to...