I Was Tortured Because I’m a Somali Woman Who Spoke Out
I was sentenced to three years in jail for insulting government institutions. Now I am free, I will carry on fighting for the women I met in prison By Sadia Moalim Ali Wed 7 Oct 2026 The Somali activist Sadia Moalim Ali, who was detained for speaking out on TikTok and Facebook about issues such as forced evictions, high fuel prices and nepotism. Photograph: Handout ‘Why don’t you just drive your tuk-tuk and do your work?” the judge asked me after videos from my social media a
The Guardian
Oct 9
Georgia: Critics Jailed for Online Speech
By Human Rights Watch September 18, 2026 The Georgian Interior Ministry headquarters in Tbilisi, February 2, 2010. © 2010 David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters (Berlin, September 18, 2026) – Georgian authorities are using vague administrative offenses to jail or heavily fine people for online speech, deepening the government’s crackdown on freedom of expression, Human Rights Watch said today. Since June 2026, a new Ministry of Internal Affairs unit has monitored social media and refer
Human Rights Watch
Oct 7
Six inmates Dead in Lebanon since General Amnesty law
By L'Orient Today staff September 15, 2026 A man arrives at Roumieh prison, northeast of Beirut, to visit an inmate on April 7, 2006. (Archive photo: Ramzi Haidar/AFP) BEIRUT — Six detainees have died since the Lebanese government passed the general amnesty law around a month ago, a security source told L'Orient Today on Tuesday. Passed on Aug. 12 by Parliament and enacted on Sept. 4 by President Joseph Aoun, the general amnesty law was suspended last Thursday by the Constitu
L'Orient Today
Sep 14
Russia's 'torture prisons' in Ukraine exposed by BBC”
By Tania Kharchenko and Samuel Horti “"I have never heard such terrible screams before," says Liudmyla, recalling her first days in the Izolyatsia detention centre [Credit: BBC]” This article contains accounts of torture and sexual violence Early one October morning in 2019, a group of men jumped out of a car and grabbed Liudmyla Huseinova as she left her home. The 64-year-old says they seized her bag and threw her into the back seat, beginning what she describes as a "nightm
BBC News
Jul 10
Australian Aboriginal deaths in police custody: genocidal?
Lidia Thorpe has made a claim about the Northern Territory Chief Minister over Indigenous deaths in custody. News.com.au June 10, 2025 By...
News.com.au
Jun 26, 2025
26 freed in major Russia-West prisoner exchange
The prisoner swap is the biggest between Russia and the West since the Cold War [White House via AP Photo] Russia has freed Wall Street...
Al Jazeera
Aug 4, 2024
Asylum Seekers and NGOs allege abuse in Greek detention
Exclusive: Three reports provide new evidence of migrants and asylum seekers being systematically detained and abused Melissa Pawson,...
openDemocracy
Feb 24, 2023
China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Demands U.S. Response
Demonstrators protest Chinese human rights abuses committed against Uyghurs at a rally in Istanbul, Turkey, on December 20, 2019. (Photo...
Nina Shea & Katrina Lantos Swett
Sep 5, 2022
