Terrorism charges without legal basis, hunger strike, and new threats at sea: repression expands as international mobilisation grows ~ Osservatorio…
Sumud Flotilla hijacking sets a dangerous precedent
Tag: Human Rights
Anarchist News Review: What have human rights ever done for us?
~ Jon and Simon round off the year with a trip into the weeds talking about reaching the Mark Jenner period in the Spycops saga, Labour’s disgust…
Hostages overseas: Italy’s frontier-prison in Albania
These centres, in a non-place lost among the mountains, threaten to become a European model for deportations ~ Thymo Nzk ~ On 1 November, hundreds…
Chiapas: Attacks on human rights defenders and journalists on the rise
While last year the perpetrators were identified as being part of organised crime, in 2025 the main aggressors are unknown actors and state actors …
Saudi dissident faces deportation from Bulgaria
Despite multiple court rulings in his favour, Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi’s detention continues under shifting legal justifications ~ Alisa-Ece To…
Human rights discourse has failed to stop the genocide in Gaza
These rivers of blood must breach the walls of our apathy.
Locals force Greek authorities to save migrants
A group of 22 people have arrived on the island of Lesvos by boat.
Is saving lives a crime? The trial of human rights defenders begins in Greece
Searching and rescuing refugees in distress — is this a crime?
Domestic murder and migration
In October the UK’s domestic murder rate reached a five-year high.
They Work Here: The Psychological Violence of Arbitrary Detention
CW: police brutality, abuse, sexual abuse, torture The failure of authority in Europe extends across nationalism and borders, it is explicit in our…
“There is almost no green left”: the rise of the climate refugee
Bangladesh, with its low-lying coastal regions and proximity to the equator, is in the unenviable position of being one of the most vulnerable coun…
Bangladesh: 200,000 Rohingya people rally to mark Genocide Day
About 200,000 Rohingya people rallied in the World’s largest refugee camp in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, today to mark two years since the start of t…
I am still a cliché
This text talks about social benefits, but with a focus on people who have mental health issues due to being abused as children: a group hardly con…
Amnesty International: Turkish-backed rebels violating human rights in Afrin
Turkish-backed Syrian rebel groups are committing serious human rights violations against civilians in the Kurdish canton of Afrin, Amnesty Interna…
France: Tower occupation set to win migrant workers their right to stay
A stunning victory for migrant workers could be on the cards following a two-week occupation of Semmaris Tower in Paris by 105 people demanding th…
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Starmer’s downfall – long time coming yet inevitable
The outgoing PM is a textbook example of a public figure who jettisoned principles in the search for power ~ Paul Gravett ~ The revolving door of U…
EU votes to speed up deportations
Removal of undocumented people becomes easier as far-right international continues to rise ~ Blade Runner ~ An alliance of centre-right and far-rig…
Notes from the US: Sadistic idiocy
MAGA apologists square multiple circles just in order to ‘live with themselves’ ~ Louis Further ~ A new study by members of the School …
Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland
Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Bashkir artist Semyon Skr…
Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
