Human Rights

Image for Indonesia rights bodies find widespread abuses in 2025 protests
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Indonesia rights bodies find widespread abuses in 2025 protests

By Ananda Teresia JAKARTA, April 21 (Reuters) - An investigation by Indonesian state-run rights bodi...

21st April, 2026

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Iranians fear sharpening pressure after war and crackdown 

By Parisa Hafezi and Angus McDowall DUBAI, April 18 - Iranians striving to maintain a semblance of n...

18th April, 2026

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Settlers block Palestinian pupils' path to West Bank school with barbed wire

By Nuha Sharaf and Yosri Al-Jamal JERUSALEM, April 16 (Reuters) - Dozens of Palestinian children hav...

16th April, 2026

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Israeli attacks prevent Lebanese from burying their dead in ancestral lands

By Nazih Osseiran and Jihed Abidellaoui BEIRUT April 15 - Brothers Ali and Wael Sabbagh stood facing...

15th April, 2026

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Around 250 missing after Rohingya boat capsizes in Andaman Sea, UN agencies say

April 14 (Reuters) - Around 250 people were missing after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees and Bang...

14th April, 2026

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Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral

By Thomas Suen and Louisa Gouliamaki TYRE, Lebanon April 12 (Reuters) - Wrapped in bloodied bandages...

12th April, 2026

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Russian listed by Memorial as political prisoner goes on hunger strike

By Mark Trevelyan LONDON, April 11 (Reuters) - A former Moscow district official serving a long pris...

11th April, 2026

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Russia labels Nobel-winning rights group Memorial an extremist movement, TASS says

LONDON, April 9 (Reuters) - Russian human rights group Memorial was designated as an "extremist" mov...

9th April, 2026

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UN condemns Israeli strikes on Lebanon, calls casualty reports 'appalling'

April 8 (Reuters) - The United Nations on Wednesday condemned a massive wave of Israeli strikes acro...

8th April, 2026

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Telenor faces lawsuit over claims it exposed Myanmar customers to junta repression

BANGKOK, April 8 (Reuters) - A Swedish non-profit filed a class action lawsuit against Telenor on Tu...

8th April, 2026

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Iran executes man over attack on military site during January protests, Mizan reports

DUBAI, April 6 (Reuters) - Iran executed a man named Ali Fahim convicted over an attempt to storm a...

6th April, 2026

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Six Ukrainian children to be returned from Russia and reunited with families, US says

WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - Six Ukrainian children will be returned from Russia to their familie...

2nd April, 2026