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Demonstrators holding signs as they gather near the Francis Scott Key Bridge during a rally in support of the Iranian people and to condemn the execution of political prisoners in Iran, in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2026. (Amid Farahi/ AFP)
May 24, 2026, 11:51 am
Iran executes first man accused of espionage during current war with US and Israel
Mojtaba Kian is convicted of sharing information related to Iran’s defense capabilities during the nearly 40-day Israel-US war with the Islamic Republic
By AFP
This circa 2017 photo provided by his family shows Remy Rowhani, the head of the National Spiritual Assembly that governs Baha’i affairs in Qatar. (Family photo via AP)
August 14, 2025, 3:53 pm
Qatar sentences Baha’i leader to 5 years over social media posts
Country’s Supreme Judiciary Council claims Remy Rowhani ‘cast doubt on the foundations of the Islamic religion,’ weeks after experts sounded alarm over treatment of minority
By David Crary
Illustrative: Israeli soldiers gather at the gate to the Sde Teiman military base, as people protest in support of soldiers arrested over suspicions of detainee abuse, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)
October 21, 2024, 10:49 pm
US probing IDF unit for alleged abuse at detention facility, jeopardizing aid
State Dept. checking whether Force 100, tasked with guarding terror suspects at Sde Teiman base, violated human rights — if so, future aid would violate US’s ‘Leahy Law’
By ToI Staff
Troops of the Kfir Brigade's Netzah Yehuda Battalion operate in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun, in a handout image published March 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 9, 2024, 9:31 pm
US will not impose sanctions on IDF unit for alleged rights violations — report
According to Axios, Blinken informed Gallant of the decision regarding the Netzah Yehuda battalion
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Troops from the ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion operate in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun, in a handout image published April 4, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 29, 2024, 11:58 pm
US says 5 IDF units violated human rights: 4 have remediated, one being reviewed
Cases predate Gaza war; Washington says it received new info from Israel on 5th unit — thought to be Netzah Yehuda Battalion — after Jerusalem last week feared imminent sanctions
By Reuters, ToI Staff and Lazar Berman
From left: Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi at a cadets graduation ceremony at the IDF's officers school in southern Israel, known as Bahad 1, March 7, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
April 28, 2024, 6:06 pm
Israel working to block feared ICC arrest warrants against PM, others over Gaza war
Government source says The Hague focusing on allegations that Israel ‘deliberately starved’ Gazans; IDF gives rare press briefing over Shabbat to highlight humanitarian efforts
By Lazar Berman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking in a video message to the Israeli public on April 21, 2024. (Roi Avraham/GPO)
April 26, 2024, 9:26 pm
ICC rulings won’t affect Israel, but will create dangerous precedent, Netanyahu says
Israel said increasingly concerned that court could issue arrest warrants against PM and other top officials for alleged violations of international law in Gaza
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Chairs for the Bibas family, hostages held in Gaza, are seen at a Passover seder table set, Thursday, April 11, 2024, at the communal dining hall at Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel, where a quarter of all residents were killed or captured by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
April 23, 2024, 1:05 am
Blinken: Both Hamas onslaught, ensuing Israeli offensive raise human rights concerns
Top US diplomat denies ‘double standard’ in assessing allegations against Israel, rejects comparisons between Israeli war against terror group and Russian invasion of Ukraine
By Jacob Magid
In this handout photo released by Novaya Gazeta Europe via web site Novayagazeta.eu, Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina sits after receiving medical treatment in Grozny, Russia, on July 4, 2023. (Novaya Gazeta Europe Novayagazeta.eu via AP)
July 4, 2023, 2:02 pm
Masked assailants attack journalist and lawyer in Russia’s Chechnya province
Novaya Gazeta reporter Elena Milashina suffers brain injury and broken fingers, attorney Alexander Nemov a gash in his leg; Kremlin lawmakers condemn assault
By AP
This is a locator map for Saudi Arabia with its capital, Riyadh. (AP Photo)
May 29, 2023, 4:59 pm
Saudi Arabia executes two Bahraini men convicted of belonging to militant group
The two were detained in May 2015 for belonging to an unidentified group that allegedly smuggles explosives into country
By AP
Young children pull a sledge as they walk up a slope through snow in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on February 7, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP)
February 14, 2023, 9:20 pm
US study flags possible war crime as Russia holds thousands of Ukrainian children
In possible violation of Geneva Convention, at least 6,000 children as young as 4 months said taken to 43 camps across Russia to receive ‘patriotic and military-related education’
By AFP
Vitaliy Mysharskiy, 14, left, and his grandmother Tanya Babii sit in the yard of the family house in the recently liberated village of Kyselivka, outskirts of Kherson, southern Ukraine, Nov. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
November 18, 2022, 1:41 pm
‘I thought I was going to die’: Ukrainians recount kidnappings, torture
As violence escalates in Ukraine, reports of abuses perpetrated by Russia become widespread, especially in the recently liberated Kherson region
By SAM MEDNICK and HANNA ARHIROVA
United Nations incoming human rights chief Volker Tuerk speaks during a conference in Bangkok, Thailand, May 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
September 8, 2022, 9:27 pm
Veteran Austrian diplomat nominated as next UN human rights chief
Volker Tuerk has spent many years working for the UN refugee agency and if confirmed would succeed Michelle Bachelet, an outspoken critic of Israel’s human rights record
By AP and ToI Staff
Ukrainian soldiers on top of an Ukrainian armoured fighting vehicle are pictured on a road in the countryside of Siversk, in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, on July 8, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP)
September 8, 2022, 12:50 am
Senior US official: Ukraine making ‘slow but meaningful progress’ against Russia
Zelensky says troops recaptured several settlements in country’s northeast Kharkiv region; UN says there are ‘credible’ accusations Ukrainian children forcibly moved to Russia
By ToI Staff and AFP
Illustrative: In this picture taken April 16, 2011, and released by the semi-official Mehr News Agency, a blindfolded man convicted of armed robbery, kidnapping and slaying of two policemen waits to be hanged in public. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hadi Khosravi)
July 27, 2022, 2:30 pm
Human rights activists denounce Iran’s record-breaking ‘execution spree’
With 251 hangings confirmed so far, Iran is on track to soon surpass its 2021 total, although the real number may be even higher, watchdogs say; trials called ‘grossly unfair’
By AFP
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