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FILE – A portrait of Mahsa Amini is held during a rally calling for regime change in Iran following the death of Amini, a young woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by Iran’s notorious “morality police,” in Washington, on Oct. 1, 2022. Iran’s foreign ministry on Sunday May 21, 2023 summoned the Swiss ambassador, Nadine Lozano, after a Twitter account affiliated with the embassy in Tehran published a photo showing protest icon Mahsa Amini, reported YJC.ir, a website affiliated with Iran’s state TV. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File) BGK101

September 15, 2023 at 4:57 pm

A year after Mahsa Amini’s death: Repression and defiance in Iran

The year that has passed since Amini's death allowed the world to glimpse the seething anger just below the surface of a repressive society. But...

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May 25, 2023 at 6:47 pm

U.S. among 17 countries that practice forced labor, a form of ‘modern slavery,’ report finds

Types of state-imposed labor vary — from prisons, as in the United States, to the widespread use of work camps in highly repressive countries such...

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Members of the Alhajaa family sit in a cafeteria at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, with their passports as they await interviews on March 9, 2023. MUST CREDIT: Hamid Alhajaa

May 24, 2023 at 12:05 pm

Sudanese stuck in war zone after U.S. destroyed their passports

Some Sudanese are trapped in the country because their passports were in the custody of embassies that evacuated staff without returning travel documents.

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May 19, 2023 at 9:18 pm

Iran executes three men connected to anti-government protests

The three were accused of killing two members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Basij volunteer force and a police officer during protests of clerical...

April 17, 2023 at 6:18 am

Iran steps up enforcement of mandatory hijab for women

Iranian authorities plan to prosecute people who encourage women to remove their headscarves and have also installed cameras in public places and on highways to...

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Palestinians clash with Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Nablus, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Israeli troops moved into the city, setting off fighting that killed several Palestinians, including a 72-year-old man, Palestinian health officials said. The Israeli military gave few details about its operation in the northern city, which is known as a militant stronghold, and the army frequently operates there. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed) DV528 DV528

March 10, 2023 at 2:24 pm

How Israeli forces fired repeatedly into a group of civilians

Recent shootings of civilians have alarmed human rights groups, several of which said Israeli forces pay no price for illegal violence against Palestinians.

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December 25, 2022 at 2:54 pm

Taliban bars women from working at NGOs; key aid groups halt operations

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have issued another sweeping ban on women in public life, barring female Afghan employees from working at international organizations....

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November 22, 2022 at 8:17 pm

Rights groups say Iran is escalating crackdown in Kurdish areas

Human rights activists are reporting that nearly four dozen people have been killed in recent days amid efforts to suppress weeks of protests against the...

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FILE – Merhan Karimi Nasseri sits among his belongings at Terminal 1 of Roissy Charles De Gaulle Airport, north of Paris on Aug. 11, 2004 . An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport and inspired the Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal” died Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022 in the airport, officials said. Merhan Karimi Nasseri died after a heart attack in the airport’s terminal 2F around midday, according an official with the Paris airport authority. Police and then a medical team treated him but were not able to save him, the official said. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File) XFP101 XFP101

November 14, 2022 at 4:40 am

Man in limbo for years in Paris airport has died — in his airport

Mehran Karimi Nasseri's ordeal inspired the 2004 Tom Hanks movie "The Terminal."

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August 21, 2022 at 11:39 am

A Chernobyl tour group secretly helped track Russia’s invasion

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine - At home in Kyiv, Yaroslav Yemelianenko was glued to a secret live stream of the gate to Chernobyl, the site of the...

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