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Ulrike Schmidt says police have not investigated incident in Walthamstow, which was interrupted by passersby

Reporters cautiously optimistic as interim government takes over after years of intimidation and censorship

Dsta’hyl, a hereditary chief of the Wet’suwet’en Nation of northern British Columbia, recently became the first person in Canada to be named a “prisoner of conscience” by Amnesty International. The organization defines prisoner of conscience as “any person imprisoned or otherwise physically restricted (for example, through house arrest), solely because…

Curfews were ordered across several northern states on Friday after clashes erupted the previous day.

Western countries and rights groups welcome the release of dissidents and journalists, including Evan Gershkovich.

Bangladeshi citizens took to the streets throughout July in nationwide protests sparked by students demanding reforms to the government’s job quota system. Security forces have quelled the unrest by deploying what many see as excess force.

From a headscarf ban for French athletes to social cleansing in the capital, these Games rest on a foundation of injustice, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

Authorities block highways to stop meeting of Baloch groups in city, leading to clashes in which at least two are dead.

Hundreds of protesters and bystanders were hit in the eyes by pellets fired by security forces, and might lose vision.

The NGO Amnesty International has called on the United Nations to extend the arms embargo on Darfur to the rest of Sudan.

Amnesty International has called it “racist gender discrimination”