Human Rights - Stories Framing the Globe https://sfg.media/en/topics/human-rights Repression, political persecution, torture, censorship, and restrictions on fundamental rights and freedoms en Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:29:54 +0000 To Mobilize One Man, 15 Patrol Police Units Came to Help the TCC https://sfg.media/en/a/kyiv-desnianskyi-protest-tcc-busification/ https://sfg.media/en/a/kyiv-desnianskyi-protest-tcc-busification/ Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:29:54 +0000 Large Protest Against “Busification” Breaks Out in Kyiv’s Desnianskyi District video During a Forced Mobilization in Kyiv, a Policewoman Turned Away Her Body Camera During a Man’s Detention https://sfg.media/en/a/kyiv-forced-mobilization-police-body-camera-detention/ https://sfg.media/en/a/kyiv-forced-mobilization-police-body-camera-detention/ Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:54:04 +0000 Footage Shows About Five TCC Officers Twisting His Arms news Lubinets Reported 6,000 Complaints Against Military Recruitment Offices and Killings Inside Draft Centers https://sfg.media/en/a/lubinets-complaints-draft-centers-killings/ https://sfg.media/en/a/lubinets-complaints-draft-centers-killings/ Wed, 13 May 2026 09:31:34 +0000 Budanov Calls Forced Mobilization Inevitable, Zelensky Does Not Comment on These Deaths news Somali Activist Says She Was Tortured in Prison After Criticizing the Authorities https://sfg.media/en/a/somali-activist-tortured-prison/ https://sfg.media/en/a/somali-activist-tortured-prison/ Thu, 07 May 2026 09:30:35 +0000 She Said Guards Beat Her, Stripped Her Naked and Left Her in Solitary Confinement Without Food for Two Days story TCC Officers Storm a Private Home Yard and Beat a Man During a Mobilization Attempt https://sfg.media/en/a/tcc-officers-storm-home-beating-mobilization-claims/ https://sfg.media/en/a/tcc-officers-storm-home-beating-mobilization-claims/ Sat, 02 May 2026 08:17:39 +0000 Authorities Say No Force Was Used and He Has No Complaints news Complaints About TCC Units Have Increased 340-Fold in Three Years https://sfg.media/en/a/tcc-complaints-340-fold-three-years-budanov-chaos-system/ https://sfg.media/en/a/tcc-complaints-340-fold-three-years-budanov-chaos-system/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:56:20 +0000 Budanov Said Chaos Is Inevitable—and Signaled That Killings and Maimings Will Remain Part of the System analysis Trump Threatens to Destroy All of Iran’s Power Plants-Lawyers Say It Would Be a War Crime https://sfg.media/en/a/trump-threatens-destroy-iran-power-plants-war-crime/ https://sfg.media/en/a/trump-threatens-destroy-iran-power-plants-war-crime/ Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:54:49 +0000 There Is No Mechanism to Stop Him understand Israel Approved a Law Allowing the Death Penalty for Palestinians for Fatal Attacks https://sfg.media/en/a/israel-death-penalty-palestinians-eu-right-to-life/ https://sfg.media/en/a/israel-death-penalty-palestinians-eu-right-to-life/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:29:51 +0000 The EU and Rights Groups Called It Discriminatory and a Violation of the Right to Life news Deported Venezuelans From the U.S. Accused El Salvador’s Authorities of Torture and Abuse https://sfg.media/en/a/venezuelans-deported-el-salvador-cecot-abuse/ https://sfg.media/en/a/venezuelans-deported-el-salvador-cecot-abuse/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:51:27 +0000 They Are Calling for an International Investigation Into Conditions at the Cecot Prison rep The U.S. Lifted Sanctions on Belarusian Fertilizer Producers in Exchange for the Release of 250 Political Prisoners https://sfg.media/en/a/us-lifts-sanctions-belarus-fertilizers-prisoners/ https://sfg.media/en/a/us-lifts-sanctions-belarus-fertilizers-prisoners/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:46:17 +0000 Lukashenko May Soon Visit Washington news FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Threatened to Revoke Licenses of U.S. Media That Cover the War With Iran “Incorrectly” https://sfg.media/en/a/fcc-carr-media-licenses-iran-war-coverage/ https://sfg.media/en/a/fcc-carr-media-licenses-iran-war-coverage/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:36:51 +0000 Journalistic Organizations Say It Is an Attempt at Government Control of the Press news The U.N. Summarized Four Years of War in Ukraine—Hundreds of Prisoners Executed, Torture and Destruction of the Energy System https://sfg.media/en/a/un-four-years-war-ukraine-executed-prisoners-torture-energy-system/ https://sfg.media/en/a/un-four-years-war-ukraine-executed-prisoners-torture-energy-system/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:38:20 +0000 Violations Were Recorded on Both Sides explain In Dnipro, Three TCC Officers Killed a 55-Year-Old Man https://sfg.media/en/a/dnipro-tcc-officers-killed-man-rights-commissioner-constitution/ https://sfg.media/en/a/dnipro-tcc-officers-killed-man-rights-commissioner-constitution/ Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:54:03 +0000 Two Days Later, Parliament’s Human Rights Commissioner Said “TCC Officers Have No Right to Detain People—This Violates the Constitution” story At Least 2,500 Civilians Were Killed in Ukraine in 2025 and Around 12,000 Were Injured https://sfg.media/en/a/ukraine-2025-civilian-casualties-un-human-rights-report/ https://sfg.media/en/a/ukraine-2025-civilian-casualties-un-human-rights-report/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:31:32 +0000 This Is Stated in a Published Report by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission news Belarus Has Released 123 Political Prisoners, Including Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Ales Bialiatski https://sfg.media/en/a/belarus-releases-political-prisoners-potash-sanctions/ https://sfg.media/en/a/belarus-releases-political-prisoners-potash-sanctions/ Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:25:14 +0000 In Return, the United States Agreed to Lift Sanctions on the Export of Belarusian Potash Fertilizers news Palestine Action Activists Are Being Held in Harsh Conditions and Have Declared a Hunger Strike https://sfg.media/en/a/palestine-action-activists-harsh-conditions-hunger-strike/ https://sfg.media/en/a/palestine-action-activists-harsh-conditions-hunger-strike/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:40:55 +0000 They Are Protesting Isolation, Censorship of Correspondence, and Years-Long Pretrial Delays news Israel Reopens an Underground Prison Deemed Inhumane and Closed 40 Years Ago https://sfg.media/en/a/israel-reopens-underground-prison-gaza/ https://sfg.media/en/a/israel-reopens-underground-prison-gaza/ Sat, 08 Nov 2025 14:21:08 +0000 Palestinians from Gaza Are Held Without Trial or Daylight, Facing Torture and Isolation news In Ternopil, a Military Recruitment Office Announced the Mobilization of “Combat Groups”—a Day Later, Police Uncovered Kidnappings and Torture https://sfg.media/en/a/ternopil-combat-groups-kidnappings-torture/ https://sfg.media/en/a/ternopil-combat-groups-kidnappings-torture/ Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:24:19 +0100 Soldiers of the 3rd Assault Brigade Became Criminal Suspects, Though No Link to the Recruitment Office Has Been Confirmed news French Intelligence Tried to Pressure Pavel Durov Into Censoring Moldovan Opposition Channels https://sfg.media/en/a/french-intelligence-durov-moldovan-channels/ https://sfg.media/en/a/french-intelligence-durov-moldovan-channels/ Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:00:00 +0000 He Says They Offered Help in French Legal Cases in Exchange for Politically Motivated Blocks news Britain Imposes Sanctions on Russians Involved in the Abduction of Ukrainian Children https://sfg.media/en/a/uk-ukrainian-children-abduction-sanctions/ https://sfg.media/en/a/uk-ukrainian-children-abduction-sanctions/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:30:00 +0000 London Accuses Moscow of Trying to Erase Ukrainian Identity Through “Re-Education” Camps news Council of Europe Report Documents Systemic Human Rights Violations Under Martial Law in Ukraine https://sfg.media/en/a/council-of-europe-report-documents-systemic-human-rights-violations/ https://sfg.media/en/a/council-of-europe-report-documents-systemic-human-rights-violations/ Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:45:00 +0000 Military Recruitment, Police, and Security Services Accused of Beatings—Some Fatal—Arbitrary Detentions, Persecution of Critics, and Conscription of People With Disabilities news UN Report Documents Systemic Human Rights Violations in Ukraine https://sfg.media/en/a/un-report-documents-systemic-human-rights-violations-in-ukraine/ https://sfg.media/en/a/un-report-documents-systemic-human-rights-violations-in-ukraine/ Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:00:00 +0000 In Russian-Occupied Areas—Torture, Deportations, Property Seizures, and Pressure on Culture and Religion. In Government-Controlled Areas—Prosecutions for Alleged Collaboration, Prison Terms for Conscientious Objectors, and Obstacles to Evacuating Vulnerable Groups explain "Everything Will Be Fine." https://sfg.media/en/a/everything-will-be-fine-ukrainian-prisoners-in-russian-custody/ https://sfg.media/en/a/everything-will-be-fine-ukrainian-prisoners-in-russian-custody/ Tue, 27 May 2025 14:00:00 +0000 How Ukrainian Prisoners Die in Russian Prisons—and Why Kyiv Sees It as Evidence of War Crimes story The U.S. Shuts Down Programs Investigating Russia’s Crimes in Ukraine https://sfg.media/en/a/the-us-shuts-down-programs-investigating-russias-crimes-in-ukraine/ https://sfg.media/en/a/the-us-shuts-down-programs-investigating-russias-crimes-in-ukraine/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000 Military Atrocity Initiative Closed, Data on Child Deportations Frozen, Cooperation with The Hague Halted news The U.S. State Department has stopped supporting the investigation into the abduction of Ukrainian children https://sfg.media/en/a/the-us-state-department-has-stopped-supporting-the-investigation-into-the-abduction-of-ukrainian-children/ https://sfg.media/en/a/the-us-state-department-has-stopped-supporting-the-investigation-into-the-abduction-of-ukrainian-children/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 This decision will significantly complicate efforts to prosecute Russia for war crimes news