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18 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 13, 2026.
Prosecutors say 162 suspects, nine associations and 13 businesses are under investigation across 15 provinces. Dozens of websites were blocked, and the EU's Turkey rapporteur called it 'a shocking escalation.'
Prosecutors say a shift commander led guards into a cell at Ketziot Prison after evening count in November 2023. Thaer Abu Asab, 38, died hours later with broken ribs and cardiac failure.
Havana freed the co-creator of the protest anthem "Patria y Vida" on the condition that he leave the island; a flag-waving crowd met him at the airport.
Judges confirmed charges against Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, tied to torture, rape and murder at Mitiga prison — the court's first case to reach trial after 15 years of investigating atrocities in Libya.
Human rights chief Volker Turk reported 1,100 wounded and dozens kidnapped since January as armed groups push beyond Port-au-Prince into the countryside.
The decision to release the top opposition politician is seen as an attempt to recalibrate frayed ties with Western countries.
Video of Belgian Malinois named Lucy being brutally beaten with clubs goes viral, highlighting escalating violence against Palestinians and their property.
Iran alone executed at least 2,159 people in 2025 — more than double 2024 — with nearly half of all known killings worldwide carried out for nonviolent drug offenses.
A waterfront slum that has stood on stilts for generations is being razed to make way for a state-backed real estate project, with NPR documenting evictions stretching far beyond the official safety buffer.
Dozens arrested across Kuwait, UAE, and Bahrain on terrorism charges as sectarian tensions surge during U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran.
Dozens accused of belonging to Iran-linked terrorism cells as conflict accelerates authoritarian crackdown across the region.
The prominent Iranian human rights activist, who has spent much of her adult life in and out of prison, will undergo medical treatment after collapsing earlier this month.
Operation Southern Spear has conducted 53+ airstrikes on vessels since September 2025, with human rights groups, Colombia, and Venezuela alleging many victims were civilians — not drug traffickers.
Times investigation finds that abductions from Syria's Alawite minority are more common and brutal than the government has acknowledged.
'They Let Him Rot in There,' says family member as immigrant detainee fatalities increase nationwide.
In a detailed investigation, HRW documented that only 10.5% of deportees to CECOT had violent criminal convictions — and that the system constitutes enforced disappearance under international law.
Government cuts to human rights groups coincide with promotion of revisionist accounts of military dictatorship's crimes fifty years after the junta.
Saleh Mohammadi, a medal-winning wrestler arrested during January protests in Qom, was executed Thursday despite testimony from family, teammates, and coaches that he was at his uncle's home during the alleged attack on police officers.