Iranian authorities tried to silence those who are uniquely positioned to describe the magnitude of the carnage and share the stories of the injured and the dead: Iran’s frontline medical workers.
Powerful essay featuring doctors that treated wounded protesters.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
New @hrw.org report: authorities in Iran have carried out mass arrests, enforced disappearances, held detainees in secret facilities, and aired coerced “confessions,” including of children — while imposing near–martial law conditions.
www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...
Today, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court declared inadmissible a complaint by a Palestinian in Gaza challenging German arms export licences to Israel.
Germany is among Israel’s top suppliers of weapons components.
www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/P...
We spoke with witnesses and analysed dozens of videos since 8 January from 10 cities in the provinces of Alborz, Gilan, Kermanshah, Razavi Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchestan and Tehran. They reveal mass unlawful killings committed on an unprecedented scale.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
New from @amnesty.org & @hrw.org: The Iranian security forces unlawfully used rifles, shotguns, water cannon, tear gas & beatings to disperse & punish largely peaceful protesters. Recent crackdown resulted in the killing of at least 28 people, including children.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Good overview from @apnews.com on ongoing clashes in Serbia.
Dozens arrested, many injured and police struggling to contain violence from pro-govt groups.
apnews.com/article/serb...
Large anti-govt protests are underway in more than 30 cities and towns across Serbia. This is Novi Sad, where clashes broke out after pro-govt groups threw pyrotechnics at peaceful protesters:
Hungary's government is being accused of handing more than €1,000,000,000 in unlawful subsidies as advertising revenue to pro-Orbán newspapers, television stations and online platforms in 2015-2023, two media outlets claim in a state aid complaint lodged with the European Commission.
The Trump admin dismantled key efforts to hold Russia accountable for war crimes in Ukraine—pulling out of an EU-led group, downsizing DOJ’s war crimes team, ending asset seizures, and leaving a legally mandated coordinator post vacant.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The Hungarian government has amended the country's constitution (again) to suit its narrow political purposes, this time to justify attacks on LGBT people and threaten its critics with the power to suspend Hungarian citizenship for dual nationals. EU action is needed.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...
Israeli PR guru Srulik Einhorn worked to burnish the image of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and facilitate the flow of Serbian arms to Israel. Now wanted for questioning in Israel, he has set up shop in Belgrade.
balkaninsight.com/2025/04/16/b...
Delicious.
Does it taste the same as supa sa knedlama?
It sometimes seems telling lies is easier than ever — partly true. But: Exposing lies is also possible in previously unthinkable ways. A remarkable BBC Verify report on the paramedic killings and cover-ups that followed
Some thoughts on the student protests in Serbia ⬇️
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has inflicted widespread sexual violence on women and girls throughout Sudan’s war. The RSF’s atrocities, including rape, gang-rape and sexual slavery, amount to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, @amnesty.org new report.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
This is an excellent thread of even better investigation into the human rights record of Frontex leadership 👇
New compelling database by SHARE Lab with more than 3000 testimonies and other visual evidence documenting the effects of the use of sound cannon during Belgrade protests last month.
zvuk.labs.rs
Video obtained by my colleague Farnaz Fassihi shows how the IDF deliberately attacked, over several minutes, a convoy of ambulances and other emergency vehicles in #Gaza. #Israel wrongly claimed that the vehicles drove without emergency signals and headlights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...
“Israel is preparing to forcibly displace the entire population of Gaza into an enclosed and possibly fenced-off area. Anyone caught outside its boundaries would be killed, and buildings throughout the rest of the enclave would likely be razed to the ground.“
www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...
Anyone who thinks Israeli forces have been upholding the principle of distinction—differentiating between civilians, medics, journalists, humanitarian workers, and combatants in Gaza—should read this story.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
They „would like to see “millions of AI pilots”, so the US and its allies are ready for the future of war.“
Sometimes I think Serbia can’t surprise me, but here we go.
Apparently Russian FSB is in Belgrade this week to determine if sonic weapon was used against peaceful protesters on March 15.
beta.rs/content/2222...
Inside Russia's shadow war in the Baltic Sea - a series of suspected sabotage incidents has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure
ig.ft.com/baltic-sea/
New day, new spyware in Serbia. @amnesty.org uncovers a new case of misuse of a Cellebrite product to break into the phone of a youth activist in Serbia. And more evidence that the government continues their campaign of surveillance of civil society.
securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/...
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Guess who loves a good old “smart city” with cameras and face recognition at every corner?
Inside the Taliban's surveillance network monitoring millions
www.bbc.com/news/article...
In addition to Shib al-Butum, nine other communities in Masafer Yatta are at imminent risk of forced displacement. The stories of these communities are also told - in the masterful way by Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham - in the documentary “No Other Land“.
www.972mag.com/no-other-lan...
Settlers continue to enjoy near-total impunity for the violence. Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights group, found that around 94% of police investigations into settler violence across the West Bank between 2005 and 2024 concluded with no indictment.
