https://sagire.online/topic/human-rights/ Articles and notes about Human rights. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 01:35:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/10cea191/https://sagire.online/wire/10cea191/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 23:24:00 -0300The national president of the Nigeria Union of Mining Workers (NUMW), Musa Adamu Nasiru, told the inquiry commission that six of the miners who died in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) were registered members of the union. The president of the Niger Miners Association, Abdulrazak Yusuf Mohammed, told the same commission that he was informed that 65 people were in detention, that only 17 survived and that forty-eight died in custody. In Niger State, thirty-seven people accused of illegal mining died in NSCDC custody, according to Nigerian authorities.NigeriaHuman rightsPublic security https://sagire.online/wire/91597f92/https://sagire.online/wire/91597f92/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 23:22:00 -0300A Hong Kong court sentenced activist Joshua Wong to 10 years in prison on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to “foreign collusion,” his second conviction under a national security law. The sentence stems from the global campaign to instigate sanctions against mainland China and Hong Kong after the 2019 protests. Wong was already serving a sentence for subversion in the primary election case and was charged alongside his former party colleague Nathan Law and other activists. Foreign consuls attended the hearing, with a heavy police presence and a large crowd of media outside the court.ChinaHuman rightsJustice https://sagire.online/wire/691ddbb0/https://sagire.online/wire/691ddbb0/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:23:00 -0300High Court Judge William Tam has set 9:30 a.m. this Thursday for the sentencing of Joshua Wong for foreign collusion, in a hearing lasting about 30 minutes. Wong pleaded guilty in September and faces a prison term ranging from three years to life imprisonment on the charge of conspiring with external forces to endanger national security. The 30-year-old activist is already serving a four-year, eight-month prison term. Before the new charge, lawyer Derek Chan told the court Wong had been due for release in January 2027.ChinaJusticeHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/72ad4c27/https://sagire.online/wire/72ad4c27/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:23:00 -0300Israeli President Isaac Herzog sent a warning letter last month to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials about a “highly explosive and dangerous reality” in the West Bank and the “moral disgrace” of settler violence, according to the Times of Israel, which says it obtained the letter. The letter was also sent to Foreign Minister Israel Katz, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, and says that IDF commanders, police officers and Shin Bet personnel report “limited tools and a shortage of manpower”. Herzog warned that a flare-up on the ground is liable to carry “severe and far-reaching consequences” for Israel's security, its functioning as a sovereign state, its international standing, Diaspora Jewry and the Israeli economy. He called for the perpetrators to be treated as members of a criminal organization and for a plan with a mass deployment of security forces, widespread arrests, administrative detentions and the dismantling of the groups. Settler violence has surged in recent months, with near-daily attacks and harassment and few perpetrators charged or convicted.IsraelWest BankHuman rightsMiddle East https://sagire.online/wire/d06ae83a/https://sagire.online/wire/d06ae83a/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:25:00 -0300The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that 1,134 children in Gaza have undergone amputations as of October 9, 2026. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 2,300 amputees — both children and adults — were assessed between September 2024 and May 2026, and only 500 received permanent prosthetics. The nongovernmental organization (NGO) said Israeli restrictions on patient travel and medical evacuations prevent hundreds of children from seeking specialized treatment abroad. According to the organization, only eight certified prosthetics and orthotics professionals are currently available in Gaza, and there is a lack of equipment to make, fit and maintain artificial limbs. The group accused Israel of war crimes and framed the amputation of children and the obstruction of treatment as acts listed in Article 2 of the Genocide Convention.GazaIsraelHuman rightsHealth https://sagire.online/wire/98842812/https://sagire.online/wire/98842812/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:24:00 -0300Serbian authorities detained nine active police officers and one former officer for allegedly using excessive force against detainees during last year’s anti-corruption protests in Belgrade, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Straits Times. The Interior Ministry said the suspects, from an elite unit, tortured and intimidated people detained in the garage of a government compound in downtown Belgrade on August 14-15, 2025. According to the statement, by using force and threats they inflicted great pain and severe suffering on a larger number of people to obtain information from them and to intimidate and unlawfully punish them. These were the first major arrests in connection with violence against the protesters who took to the streets over the past two years, and the ministry released only the detainees’ initials. The protests swept the country, a candidate for European Union (EU) membership, in 2025 and 2026, after 16 people died when a concrete canopy collapsed at a renovated railway station in Novi Sad on November 1, 2024.SerbiaProtestsHuman rightsJustice https://sagire.online/wire/70a5d868/https://sagire.online/wire/70a5d868/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:23:00 -0300Retired Indian judge Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, said the panel’s unequivocal conclusion was that Israeli security forces continued to commit “war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of genocide” a year after the October 2025 ceasefire brokered by the United States. The report says more than 75,000 Palestinians across the Occupied Palestinian Territory have been killed since October 7, 2023, including at least 21,500 children and 11,000 women. The document was presented by Muralidhar to the UN General Assembly on October 26; according to The Hindu, he could not present the report in person because the United States denied him a visa. The report calls on UN member states to “employ all means” to prevent the genocide, investigate and prosecute suspects, and establish clear rules for the use of artificial intelligence in conflicts.PalestineIsraelInternational justiceUnited NationsHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/626d34bf/https://sagire.online/wire/626d34bf/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:22:00 -0300Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that “there are strong suspicions that foreign states have invested considerable sums to influence the results of the elections in Israel”, in a video recorded in front of an Israeli flag and the Prime Minister’s Office logo. On Wednesday morning, the Central Elections Committee announced that its post-election review, which covered protocols from 9,069 polling stations, found no irregularities or evidence that the integrity of the vote had been compromised or the results altered. MK Ayman Odeh, the former leader of Hadash and the Joint List, was identified as the senior Arab lawmaker suspected of receiving hundreds of thousands of shekels in cash from a foreign source. Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara publicly rebuked the attempt, attributed to Shin Bet chief David Zini, to question lawmakers without sufficient evidence, and said it is illegal to question anyone, including lawmakers, without sufficient evidence. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir declared that all Arab party leaders should be arrested and questioned “in Shin Bet basement cells,” even without the attorney general’s approval.IsraelElectionsHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/d9d39192/https://sagire.online/wire/d9d39192/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:22:00 -0300The British government is facing a legal challenge over its recommendation for schools to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, in a case filed on Monday by the Good Law Project. Seven of the definition’s 11 illustrations include references to Israel. The group’s executive director, Jo Maugham, said rules that conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism could be among the drivers of antisemitism. British Jewish group Na’amod said that “Jewish pupils should be safe at school, and antisemitism has to be taken seriously. The IHRA definition doesn’t do that job”.United KingdomAntisemitismHuman rightsEducation https://sagire.online/wire/9dd97323/https://sagire.online/wire/9dd97323/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:22:00 -0300Britain’s highest court on Wednesday heard an appeal against the ban on Palestine Action, which the British government classifies as a terrorist organization, as police moved to arrest protesters outside. A lawyer for the group’s founder argued that only three of 385 acts by the organization cross the legal threshold of terrorism. Twenty-five protesters were arrested outside the Supreme Court on suspicion of expressing support for a proscribed organization, according to the Metropolitan Police. The court heard that more than 3,000 people have been arrested since the ban came into force, and that the High Court found the ban unlawful in February, a ruling overturned by the Court of Appeal in June.United KingdomPalestineHuman rightsProtests https://sagire.online/wire/6fbd4bd6/https://sagire.online/wire/6fbd4bd6/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 10:22:00 -0300Dozens of Palestinian families returned to their homes in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Monday after the Israeli army announced the end of its 11-day military operation. Approximately 537 families, comprising nearly 3,300 people, had been forced to leave their homes since the operation began, according to the Support and Relief Committee in Hebron Governorate. Residents reported the theft of gold jewelry, cash and personal belongings, as well as broken doors and damaged household contents. Hebron Mayor Yousef al-Jabari estimated damage to municipal facilities and utility networks at around six million shekels (around $1.9m), and Abdo Idris, head of the Hebron Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said daily losses exceeded 12 million shekels (about $3.8 million), with infrastructure damage surpassing six million shekels. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the operation after Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers at a Hebron checkpoint on October 23, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The News.PalestineWest BankIsraelHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/9b7e7417/https://sagire.online/wire/9b7e7417/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:22:00 -0300The death toll from a Russian bombing of an aid distribution point in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region on Monday has risen to 37, with dozens missing, in one of the deadliest strikes on civilians this year, officials said in a Reuters report republished by The Straits Times. Ivan Fedorov, the co-head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Defense Council, wrote on Telegram that 59 people were missing. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russian forces first dropped aerial bombs on the school building in Komyshuvakha as people arrived to collect aid, then struck the shelter with more bombs. Two members of a rescue crew and four police officers were among the dead, emergency services said. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the attack targeted Ukrainian military units in Komyshuvakha and two other settlements, and that up to 25 Ukrainian servicemen were killed.UkraineRussiaEastern EuropeConflictHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/e811c5db/https://sagire.online/wire/e811c5db/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 08:23:00 -0300Two Uyghur men, aged 26 and 35, held in Thailand for more than a decade, wrote letters made public last week asking not to be sent to China. “Every time we are worrying from China to take back us,” one of them wrote in a letter shared by Kannavee Suebsang, a former lawmaker and founder of the Peace Rights Foundation, a human rights group that represents the men. “We aren't terrorist,” the Uyghur man wrote. On Wednesday, at the Office of the National Human Rights Commission, the two men presented their plea not to be sent back to China, according to a source with direct knowledge of the meeting who requested anonymity for fear of retribution. Thailand's National Security Council head Chaipruak Doungprapat said his agency will not make a decision on their deportation, unlike the case of 40 Uyghur men who were sent back to China last year, and that the process will go through the courts, where the men will be able to defend themselves.ThailandChinaHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/5ddf754a/https://sagire.online/wire/5ddf754a/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:24:00 -0300Israel’s President Isaac Herzog formally received the official results of the election to the 26th Knesset, and consultations with the parties on forming a government begin on Wednesday evening, November 4, a date that marks 31 years since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Herzog urged compromise after a divisive election. On Israeli Arab society, he said that “one must not smear an entire public” and that he condemns “the vulgar and racist expressions” heard recently. He also said he respects the head of the Shin Bet, David Zini, and the attorney general, Gali Baharav-Miara, and that he spoke with both of them this morning.IsraelElectionsHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/052f26c0/https://sagire.online/wire/052f26c0/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:24:00 -0300Thailand’s National Security Council chief Chaipruak Doungprapat said that China needs to present a formal extradition request and that the decision on the two Uyghurs will go through the courts, with the two men able to defend themselves. The council will not decide on their deportation on its own, unlike the case of the 40 Uyghur men sent back to China last year. The two were released from prison in late October and are being held at the Suan Plu immigration detention center in Bangkok. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning defended bilateral cooperation against cross-border crimes, including illegal immigration, on Wednesday, and did not comment on whether Beijing had already presented an extradition request.ThailandChinaXinjiangExtraditionHuman rights