Over the past three years, Iran has been accused of committing international human rights violations by carrying out an unprecedented number of amputations as punishment for theft.
In the latest crackdown by the Taliban on women’s rights, Afghanistan issued a decree barring women from training to become nurses and midwives, a move that sparked condemnation across the world and has been described as “an outrageous act of ignorance” by human rights organizations and activists.
The Taliban carried out a shocking public execution of a convicted murderer by gunfire at a sports stadium in eastern Afghanistan, marking the sixth public execution carried out in the country after the Taliban seized power after the departure of US and NATO forces in 2021.
Pakistan is seeing a rise in online blasphemy cases, where hundreds of young men are standing trial in court for allegedly making blasphemous statements or sharing blasphemous content online or on WhatsApp.
The United Nations and various human rights groups and activists strongly condemned a new measure by the Taliban regime to further suppress women’s rights in Afghanistan after it introduced a new, draconian law forbidding women from showing their faces or even speaking when outside of their homes.
Canada’s new human rights commissioner resigned before he could officially begin his role following an investigation into his appointment, controversies over past remarks on Israel and Palestine, and his failure to disclose his use of a second name.
Police said on June 24th that a 14-year-old boy in Pakistan reportedly stabbed a man belonging to the country’s Shia Muslim minority to death for allegedly speaking against the companions of the Prophet Muhammad in Punjab province.
A 14-year-old kid named Rehan stabbed an elderly man repeatedly and killed him in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, Punjab after a sectarian debate. pic.twitter.com/BO0aAOjVue
A white woman in Texas has been arrested and charged for allegedly attempting to drown a 3-year-old girl at a pool and making racist remarks towards her mother, with investigators asking for the case to be treated as a hate crime.
A woman is accused of attempting to drown a 3-year-old Muslim child in possible hate crime incident https://t.co/Vw9ue56xmo
Two adolescent boys in France were arrested and charged after allegedly raping and committing violence against a 12-year-old girl who was identified as Jewish, sparking outrage throughout the country as it prepares for snap parliamentary elections at the end of June and the beginning of July.
The United Nations has condemned the Taliban after the ultraconservative administration publicly flogged more than 60 people, including more than a dozen women, in the northern Afghanistani province of Sari Pul.
