#human-rights-abuses

#human-rights-abuses

From the moment Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took over the capital of North Darfur, El Fasher after subjecting it to a suffocating siege lasting more than 500 days accounts of the atrocities they were feared to be committing began to follow in quick succession: cases of mass executions, sexual violence, torture, and kidnappings. Most of the testimonies came from those who left the city and managed to reach a safe place from which to recount what they had witnessed.

A United States-based advocacy group has filed a lawsuit in Washington, DC, accusing Apple of using minerals linked to conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda despite the iPhone maker's denials. International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates) has previously sued Tesla, Apple and other tech firms over cobalt sourcing, but US courts dismissed that case last year.

About 4,000 Myanmar citizens are living in the US with temporary protected status (TPS), which shields foreign nationals from deportation to disaster zones and allows them the right to work. Myanmar nationals were made eligible for the TPS programme after the military grabbed power in a 2021 coup, leading to a devastating civil war, repressive legal measures and arrests of activists.

Santiago Uribe, the brother of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, has been sentenced to 28 years and three months in prison for aggravated homicide and conspiracy to commit a crime while leading a paramilitary group. In Tuesday's verdict, a three-judge panel in the northwestern province of Antioquia ruled that, in the early 1990s, Uribe formed and led an illegal armed group.

In a Facebook post on Friday, Ben Mbarek's sister, Dalila Ben Mbarek Msaddek, warned that her brother's health had now severely deteriorated and doctors detected a highly dangerous toxin affecting his kidneys. Msaddek said Ben Mbarek had received treatment but refused nutritional supplements at the hospital where he was transferred on Thursday night, insisting on continuing his now 17-day protest.

In a letter from prison, the 55-year-old said that since he was re-imprisoned in April after being briefly freed under a deal with former US president Joe Biden, the cruelty of the dictatorship towards me has known no bounds. He cited blows, torture, humiliation, threats and extreme conditions in prison, including the theft of food and hygiene products ordered by the regime's minions.

Paragon's "Graphite" malware has been implicated in widespread misuse by the Italian government. Researchers at Citizen Lab at the Monk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and with Meta found that it has been used in Italy to spy on journalists and civil society actors, including humanitarian workers. Without strong legal guardrails, there is a risk that the malware will be misused in a similar manner by the U.S. Government.

Police officers from the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo detained him on both occasions for political reasons, specifically for being the legal advisor to the Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference, a collegiate body made up of several Catholic bishops hated by the co-presidential couple. His family did not know where he had been taken, and they were in a state of anxiety for 12 days, until Saturday, August 30, when they received a fateful call:

A coalition of over 100 U.S. groups is demanding that Israeli officials release 16-year-old Palestinian American Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim from imprisonment, warning that authorities are starving him and denying him medical care as they've barred the child from seeing his family for over six months. The groups called on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to act to end Mohammed's "unjust" imprisonment in Israel's Ofer prison, a facility notorious for its abuses against Palestinians, including children.

The report highlighted rampant overcrowding and potentially deadly indifference to medical needs at three immigration detention facilities in Florida, leading to serious human rights concerns.