Thursday, 04 March 2021_UN human rights experts have urged Saudi Arabia to release three young Shia Muslims detained for allegedly taking part in anti-regime protests when they were minors, citing torture and unfair trials.
Friday, 20 November 2020 _A new damning report has revealed that imprisoned Saudi women’s rights activists are tortured and sexually abused by their interrogators at detention centers in the kingdom.
Saturday, 03 October 2020 _French President Emmanuel Macron’s comments on the denunciation of Islam and in defense of secularism have drawn widespread backlash from Muslim activists and advocates of the noble religion.
Saturday, 26 September 2020_Hundreds of climate activists descended on a coal mine in western Germany on Saturday, September 26, with some groups managing to occupy parts of the mine according to police.
Friday, 24 July 2020_Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called on Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah to either commute or pardon twelve imprisoned pro-democracy activists , who have been sentenced to death and are potentially at imminent risk of execution.
Friday, 10 July 2020_A United Nations special rapporteur has called on the member states of the UN Human Rights Council to pressure Saudi Arabia to free women activists , four months before the Arab kingdom is to hold the 2020 G20 Riyadh summit.
Thursday, 25 June_Amnesty International has rebuked Saudi Arabia’s crackdown against campaigners and intellectuals, calling upon authorities to immediately release a group of Saudi women activists that have been “detained simply for demanding equality and defending human rights.”
Monday, 15 June_The black community in the US lives in perpetual fear of trigger-happy officers, who as a matter of course avoid responsibility for misconduct, activists say, and insist that real change can only be brought by action, not words and retweets.
Tehran 09 January_Bahrain’s top criminal court has upheld the death penalty of two pro-democracy activists who were convicted based on torture-tainted “confessions”.
TEHRAN, Dec 16_More than 100 activists protesting against a new Indian citizenship law were injured in New Delhi on Sunday as they clashed with police who used tear gas and baton charges to disperse demonstrators at a major university.
TEHRAN, Dec 11_A court in Bahrain has sentenced eight anti-regime protesters to life imprisonment and handed down prison sentences to several others as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
TEHRAN, August 11 - A Kashmiri activist and sportswoman has called on the Muslim world to play an active role in resolving the current crisis in Jammu and Kashmir.
TEHRAN, Jul 28 - Iran categorically condemned execution of political prisoners in Bahrain, saying, “Intensifying police-security approaches will fail to settle crisis in Bahrain.”
TEHRAN, Jul 27 -Bahrain has executed three pro-democracy activists on two separate cases, defying widespread calls to commute the death sentences handed to the prisoners in an "unfair" mass trial.
TEHRAN, Jul 27 - Goldsmith University students staging a sit-in in the British capital, London, have held a hearing after being handed an eviction notice.
TEHRAN, Jul 14 - Tens of thousands of Sudanese flooded the streets of the capital of Khartoum and other cities Saturday to mark the 40th day since the deadly dispersal of a protest sit-in, and a protest leader said a planned a meeting with the country's ruling generals to sign a power-sharing deal was postponed until Sunday.
TEHRAN, May 29 - A Pakistani parliamentarian and civil rights leader on Wednesday accused authorities of lying about a violent clash between Pashtun activists and security forces over the weekend as tensions soar between the military and rights group.
TEHRAN, May 05 - One of Colombia's most-prominent grassroots activists and winner of a prestigious international environmental prize has been attacked at a meeting with community leaders.
TEHRAN, Apr 17 - A Saudi court on Wednesday adjourned a hearing in the trial of 11 women activists which has drawn international censure, officials said, just days after campaigners reported a new crackdown on their supporters.
TEHRAN, Apr 17 - Environmental activists in the UK vowed to disrupt London underground train services in a third day of action on Wednesday in a bid to force the British government to take more radical measures to avert what they cast as an imminent global climate cataclysm.