How Iranians Protest: The 2019 Gasoline Protests
By Michał Jagielski Senior Middle East and Iran Analyst Genocide Watch When the state announced gasoline rationing and increased petrol prices, on Nov. 15, 2019, the Iranian people took to the streets. The protests came to be known as Bloody Aban, or Bloody November, and they were, at the time, the largest and most violent display of opposition to the Islamic Republic. Iranian protesters rally against an increase in petrol prices, in the central city of Isfahan. [AFP] The new
Genocide Watch
Jul 7
Upcoming Bollywood Film Angers Kashmiri Pellet Gun Survivors
By Al Jazeera Staff July 7, 2026 A father comforts his son injured by pellet gunshots in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, August 18, 2016. Credit: Al Jazeera, Cathal McNaughton, Reuters Feroz Aslam* sports an abashed smile whenever he hears the clink of a teacup on a saucer. He cannot see, but he knows it is his father. “For the past 10 years, it has been my parents – ailing themselves – who have been serving me food,” the 28-year-old told Al Jazeera. “Being their eldes
Al Jazeera
Jul 6
African Women Held For Years in India’s Detention Centres
By Pari Saikia July 2, 2026 Rounded up in raids and with no access to lawyers, 22 women including trafficking victims and refugees speak of filthy conditions and beatings while stuck in legal limbo Mary, who is being held indefinitely in an immigrant detention centre in India. Credit: The Guardian Nine months without the antiretroviral drugs that keep her alive has caused Mary’s* health to decline. For 29 years, the Kenyan mother of four had managed her HIV. Now she is being
The Guardian
Jul 6
Demolition of Uzbek Properties in Kyrgyzstan
By: Kristie Moore The Mothers’ Tears Monument located in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. The inscription is written in Kyrgyz, English, and Russian, but not Uzbek. Source: Kristie Moore (author) Kyrgyzstan has navigated a difficult path since declaring independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. While working to develop an economically and politically robust society, Kyrgyzstan has attempted to construct a Kyrgyz identity. A significant remnant of the Soviet Union is the presence of non-dem
Genocide Watch
Jul 5
Country Report: Latvia June 2026
A Soviet military monument is dismantled in Riga in August 2022. (Ints Kalinis, Reuters) Latvia Country Report June 2026 By Vladimir Kovtun Latvia has a long history of foreign rule, most notably under the Russian Empire (1721-1918) and the Soviet Union (1940-1991). This longstanding sociopolitical connection with Russia has created serious animosity between Russians and Latvians, primarily because of Russia’s Russification policy and Soviet era repression of dissidents. Lat
Ousted Bangladesh PM Hasina Vows to Return Home this Year
By Reuters June 28, 2026 Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina attends the EU Global Gateway Forum 2023, in Brussels, Belgium October 25, 2023. Credit: Reuters/Johanna Geron DHAKA, June 29 (Reuters) - Ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has vowed to return to Bangladesh this year, brushing aside a death sentence handed down in absentia and denouncing the ruling as “illegal, unconstitutional and politically motivated.” Hasina, 78, who fled to India after a student
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Jun 28
Yemeni Journalist Killed in Car Bombing Following Warnings
By Fatma Khaled June 25, 2026 This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. Credit: AP Photo CAIRO (AP) — A Yemeni journalist was killed in a car bombing in southeastern Yemen and investigators have been ordered to search for the culprits, the government said Thursday. Mohamed Eida, a correspondent for the Saudi-backed television networks Al-Arabiya and Al- Hadath, was killed late Wednesday when an explosive device planted in his car detonated in the port city of M
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Jun 28
Gulf States: Migrant Workers’ Heat Protections Fall Short
By Human Rights Watch June 23, 2026 Exposure to Extreme Temperatures, Health Risks, Death Construction workers in Doha, Qatar, November 16, 2022. Credit: Human Rights Watch, © 2022 ddp images via AP Photo (Beirut) – Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are exposing migrant workers to yet another deadly summer without adequate occupational health and safety protections as temperatures soar to dangerous levels, Human Rights Watch said today. Migrant workers, particularly o
Human Rights Watch
Jun 28
Child-marriage trial of four men in Sierra Leone begins
For the first time since child marriage was banned in Sierra Leone two years ago, people accused of committing the crime are being brought to trial.
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Jun 26
Qatar Punishes Criticism of its Abuse of World Cup Workers
By Abdullah Ibhais June 8, 2026 The 2022 football tournament cost me my freedom for three years. This year, I’ve lost my passport, safety and perhaps more Abdullah Ibhais: 'Four years on, I thought I would be free to speak about what happened to workers and me at the Qatar tournament. I was wrong.’; Credit: The Guardian What I saw in a town called Al-Shahaniyah on the outskirts of Doha, the capital of Qatar, seven years ago broke every rule and human right in the book. Desper
The Guardian
Jun 23
Kashmiri Rights Activist Wins Partial Court Victory
By Yashraj Sharma June 10, 2026 The Delhi High Court grants bail to Khurram Parvez, who has been jailed for nearly five years in ‘terror funding’ cases. Parvez Imroz, right, a Kashmiri human rights lawyer, talks to activist Khurram Parvez in their office in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, August 25, 2020. Credit: Al Jazeera New Delhi, India — A prominent Kashmiri human rights activist who has been imprisoned for nearly five years has won a partial legal victory after b
Al Jazeera
Jun 21
Rodrigo Paz declares State of Emergency in Bolivia
Rodrigo Paz declares a state of emergency in Bolivia "to clear the country's highways" June 20, 2026 By BBC News Mundo* *With information from Cecilia Barría, Ayelén Oliva, and Gerardo Lissardy. “This is not a state of emergency intended to restrict people's lives. It is exactly the opposite,” President Paz said on Saturday. (Photo from June 8). Photo: Aizar Raldes/AFP via Getty Images. After stating that he had exhausted “all avenues for dialogue,” Bolivian President Rodrigo
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