Tiina Jauhiainen knows the reach of the United Arab Emirates firsthand. In 2018, Jauhiainen helped her friend and skydiving partner Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum escape the country after accusing her father, the ruler of Dubai, of restricting her basic freedoms and… Read More ›
Abdulqadir al Madhfari was a young physician’s assistant who dreamed of becoming a doctor. No one could have imagined that at the age of 25, he would be imprisoned for the next two decades, first by the United States, then… Read More ›
Brazilian army Gen. Luiz Eduardo Ramos Baptista Pereira, right, speaks to Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, center, during the graduation ceremony of new paratroopers in Rio de Janeiro on Nov. 24, 2018. Photo: Fernando Souza/AFP via Getty Images General Motors was… Read More ›
Recently a Republican college student asked President Joe Biden during a town hall on CNN if he could “vow to protect Taiwan” from China. “Yes,” Biden responded. Anderson Cooper, who hosted the town hall, followed up with Biden, asking, “Are… Read More ›
A man weeps during a mass funeral for the 10 members of a family killed in a U.S. drone strike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 30, 2021. Photo: Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images After the terrorist attack on the… Read More ›
On what would be the last day of his life, Zemari Ahmadi, an employee of a U.S.-based NGO, was being watched by a remote crew piloting a Predator drone above the skies of Kabul, Afghanistan. As Ahmadi went about his… Read More ›
An order signed by Israel’s defense minister on Friday designated six leading Palestinian human rights groups “terror organizations,” marking an escalation in Israel’s effort to deprive independent agencies that document Israeli military abuses in the occupied territories of funding from… Read More ›
RABAT, MOROCCO — In February 2020, Moroccan human rights activist Fouad Abdelmoumni received some bone-chilling news: He and his partner had been filmed having sex inside their own home, and videos of their intimate moments were circulating on WhatsApp. Friends… Read More ›
It was a remote work opportunity, with no fixed hours, and it paid in dollars. In a moment of extreme economic crisis playing out in Brazil, the offer seemed irresistible. Felipe, who was unemployed, took the job working for TikTok,… Read More ›
Two Chinese American scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston were removed from their jobs on the same day last month, raising concerns among colleagues that they may have been targeted in fallout from the Justice Department’s controversial China Initiative. The… Read More ›