Hong Kong no longer recognises dual citizenship according to China‘s Nationality Law, thereby preventing dual nationals from accessing foreign consular assistance. … Read more →
A group of fifty-four US Senators have signed a letter urging US President Joe Biden to press Turkey on its troubling human rights record. The bipartisan group, led by Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and Republican Senator Marco Rubio … Read more →
“An unknown number” of foreign nationals have died whilst in squalid camps in northeast Syria, UN experts said on 7 February. They expressed grave concerns at the deteriorating security and humanitarian situation at Al-Hol and Roj camps, urging 57 countries whose nationals are held in the camps to repatriate them immediately. … Read more →
The International Criminal Court (ICC or the Court) has announced it has the jurisdiction to investigate war crimes in Palestine. The Pre-Trial Chamber 1 of the Court released a statement on 5 February that it had decided, by majority, “that the ICC’s territorial jurisdiction in the Situation on Palestine, a State party to the ICC… … Read more →
A new UK legal opinion has concluded that there is a “very credible case” that the Chinese government is carrying out genocide against Uyghur people. It found that there is evidence of “state-mandated behaviour showing an intent to destroy the largely Muslim minority in north-western China.” … Read more →
Human rights groups have raised concern for the lives of ethnic minorities in Iran over increasing arbitrary arrests, detentions, enforced disappearances and executions. The Centre for Human Rights Iran (CHRI) and 35 other civil society organisations have called on the international community to give urgent attention to the matter. … Read more →
As the sheer scale of human rights violations in China’s Xinjiang region continues to be exposed, Turkish authorities have been accused of forcibly repatriating their Uighur … Read more →
In what has been described as a politically motivated ruling, the Simonovsky District Court has sentenced prominent opposition activist and Putin critic, Aleksei Navalny, to two years and eight months behind bars. … Read more →
Kameel Ahmady is a British-Iranian dual national who was unjustly imprisoned in Iran’s Evin Prison and sentenced to over nine years in jail in Iran. Ahmady had been released on temporary bail when he managed to escape the country by walking on foot … Read more →
On 1 February 2021 President Erdoğan of Turkey announced that his ruling Justice and Development Party (AK) may start drafting a new constitution, along with his party’s ally, the People’s Alliance Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). … Read more →