As a newly minted U.S. citizen, Ramona Matos, once a doctor in Cuba, did not hesitate when deciding whom to vote for last year. She chose Donald J. Trump, the candidate who promised to be tough on Cuba’s communist government.…
Tag: Human Rights and Human Rights Violations
Russia Executes P.O.W.s Without Caring Who Watches, Ukraine Says
On a Monday morning last fall, Ukrainian drone pilots watched what had become a familiar scene unfold on a drone’s live feed: Russian soldiers pointed their guns at two Ukrainians, who seemingly surrendered. Then, the footage showed, the Russians shot…
Richard Bernstein, Times Correspondent, Critic and Author, Dies at 80
Richard Bernstein, a former correspondent and critic for The New York Times whose deep knowledge of Asia and Europe illuminated reporting from Tiananmen Square to the Bastille, and who wrote things as he saw them in 10 books driven by…
U.S. Sanctions Chinese and Hong Kong Officials for Pursuing Activists Abroad
The U.S. fired a new round of sanctions at China on Monday, targeting six high-level Chinese and Hong Kong officials over what it described as acts of transnational repression for their crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and on…
Supreme Court Will Not Hear Appeal in ‘Juliana’ Climate Case
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal in a landmark climate case brought by 21 young people against the federal government, ending its 10-year journey through the courts. But the case provided a blueprint for numerous other…
Armed Rohingya Group’s Leader Is Arrested in Bangladesh
The leader of an armed group representing a persecuted Muslim minority from Myanmar was arrested in a raid in neighboring Bangladesh this week and charged under an antiterrorism law. Ataullah, an ethnic Rohingya and the commander of the Arakan Rohingya…
Violence in Syria Shows Difficulty in Unifying Armed Forces
Syria’s new president has spoken often about the urgency of merging the many armed groups that fought to topple the strongman Bashar al-Assad into a unified national army. But the spasm of violence that erupted this month in northwestern Syria,…
East African Housekeepers Face Rape, Assault and Death in Saudi Arabia
Feith Shimila Murunga says her boss groped, beat and raped her. Mary Wanjiru Nyambura says she was thrown from a balcony. Winfridah Kwamboka never even made it back home. East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off…
U.N. Accuses Israel of Targeting Reproductive Health Facilities in Gaza
A United Nations commission on Thursday accused Israel of targeting hospitals and other health facilities in Gaza that provide reproductive services, including an I.V.F. clinic where thousands of embryos were destroyed, in what it called an effort to prevent Palestinian…
Syria Violence Marked by Sectarian and Revenge Killings, War Monitor Says
Armed groups and foreign fighters linked to the government but not yet integrated into it were primarily responsible for sectarian massacres in Syria’s coastal region over the past week, a war monitoring group said in a new report. The U.S.…