On February 24th, a court in Koblenz, Germany returned a conviction in the first trial on torture in the Syrian civil war. Eyad al-Gharib, a 44-year-old former intelligence officer under Bashar al-Assad’s regime, has been charged with four and a half years in prison for arresting over 30 protestors in
Fifteen hopeful migrants have drowned in another attempt to escape the failing structure of Libya to a promising new chance at life in Europe. The Mediterranean Sea has become a graveyard once again, claiming a total of at least 56 people between two shipwrecks in a week. The presumed dead
The coronavirus pandemic has allowed the Chinese Communist Party’s concentration camps to escape scrutiny from the international community. Since 2016, the Chinese Communist Party (C.C.P.) has been systematically oppressing Uyghur people through concentration camps, where they have been subject to human rights violations like torture, forced labour, and religious “re-education.”
The political tension in Georgia following the detention of opposition politician Nika Melia has led to pushback from the European Union (EU), which is calling for all parties under the cloud of tension to seek common ground, according to a report from Reuters. Melia, serving as the chairman of the
