Dozens dead and injured at an educational centre in the Hazara Shiite community area ‘Since their takeover, the Taliban have done little to put in place any measures for the protection of the public...

Morad Tahbaz and Mehran Raoof among cases being highlighted Activists also taking part in a ‘London to Tehran Challenge’ ‘Everyone at Amnesty will be cheering Anoosheh and Aryan on’ - Sacha Deshmukh...

Facebook’s algorithms ‘set to spread hate and violence’ Inflammatory content keeps Facebook users on the platform longer, meaning more targeted advertising can be sold and creating perverse incentive...

Hastily-arranged votes in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia largely conducted in presence of armed men in uniform Any Russian measures over changing status of occupied Ukrainian territory are...

Call for publication of Police Ombudsman investigation, 21 years after brutal murder ‘The authorities’ failure to bring Martin O’Hagan’s killers to justice has fed into a climate of fear for...

Poet Artyom Kamardin subjected to torture - including gruesome sexual violence - by law-enforcement officers Girlfriend also assaulted by police and threatened with gang rape ‘It seems that Russian...

Death toll reaching at least 30 people, four of them children Risk of further bloodshed amid a deliberately imposed internet black out ‘The anger expressed on the streets shows how Iranians feel about...

Authorities in Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia making home visits to collect ‘ballots’ from residents Any subsequent annexation would have no validity in law ‘These so-called “referenda”...

At least 1,386 arrested for taking part in protest rallies following Putin’s call to mobilise additional troops for Ukraine Police used excessive force, including baton beatings and chokeholds ‘All...

Testimony includes accounts of lack of healthcare in detention, denial of Covid masks, and being bundled onto expulsion flights in shackles Trump-era Title 42 policy being widely used to justify...